RE: HOWTO: Disable Zip Folders

Running Enterprise edition (x86) and this is still a problem. Unable to
unregister the dll and am forced to view a loooooooong tree since Vista
thinks my compressed files should be treated as folders. How simple would it
be to add a tick box to turn this off? Or at least give those of us that can
type in a command line the ability to unregister the dll?

Is anyone going to address this? There are multiple posts in this newsgroup
about it. How can we turn this "feature" (read: annoyance) off?

TC


"Jack Tripper" wrote:

> How do i disable the "Display Zip files as compressed folders" feature in
> Explorer in Windows Vista?
>
> In Windows XP (and as i understand it, in previous builds of Vista) you
> could unregister the COM dll zipfldr.dll using
>
> > regsvr32 zipfldr.dll -u
>
> But in RC2 (Build 5744) the file doesn't export DllUnregisterServer; it's
> not a COM library anymore. (The shell team must really be grumpy)
>
> So, to rephrase my question, is a more facetious manner:
>
> When the feature "Display Zip files as compressed folders" will be added to
> Vista, where will it be located? Under Folder Options do you think?

You might try playing here:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.zip

steve

"TC" <TC@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:EEECFBEE-9AF5-4745-81FD-D3729A61A2F2@microsoft.com...
> Running Enterprise edition (x86) and this is still a problem. Unable to
> unregister the dll and am forced to view a loooooooong tree since Vista
> thinks my compressed files should be treated as folders. How simple would
> it
> be to add a tick box to turn this off? Or at least give those of us that
> can
> type in a command line the ability to unregister the dll?
>
> Is anyone going to address this? There are multiple posts in this
> newsgroup
> about it. How can we turn this "feature" (read: annoyance) off?
>
> TC
>
>
> "Jack Tripper" wrote:
>
>> How do i disable the "Display Zip files as compressed folders" feature in
>> Explorer in Windows Vista?
>>
>> In Windows XP (and as i understand it, in previous builds of Vista) you
>> could unregister the COM dll zipfldr.dll using
>>
>> > regsvr32 zipfldr.dll -u
>>
>> But in RC2 (Build 5744) the file doesn't export DllUnregisterServer; it's
>> not a COM library anymore. (The shell team must really be grumpy)
>>
>> So, to rephrase my question, is a more facetious manner:
>>
>> When the feature "Display Zip files as compressed folders" will be added
>> to
>> Vista, where will it be located? Under Folder Options do you think?