Zip files

[Guest]

I was unable to zip the driver files using 7-zip - thanks!

 

[Guest]

That was helpful to learn... why on earth if I am running as Admin should I
need to "Run As" Cmd and then run the reg file... but I do, and it works!
(whereas right-clicking on the reg file and choosing Merge doesn't)

Thanks

Julian

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

Interesting one, Julian. Did clicking the "Merge" option prompt you for elevation (UAC)?

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Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]
Windows® Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com


That was helpful to learn... why on earth if I am running as Admin should I
need to "Run As" Cmd and then run the reg file... but I do, and it works!
(whereas right-clicking on the reg file and choosing Merge doesn't)

Thanks

Julian

 

[Guest]

Hi Ramesh,

no it didn't prompt - at least that would have been consistent. I was happy
that the PNG issue with Help & Support was resolved, puzzled that it didn't
update all keys, but I left it at that... it was only because I was looking
for something else (Indexing Search within ZIPs that I stumbled across this
and I thought I'd give it a go.

*&^%! UAC - gets in the way when I don't want it, doesn't pop up when it
should do!

Julian

Interesting one, Julian. Did clicking the "Merge" option prompt you for elevation (UAC)?

--
Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]
Windows® Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com


That was helpful to learn... why on earth if I am running as Admin should I
need to "Run As" Cmd and then run the reg file... but I do, and it works!
(whereas right-clicking on the reg file and choosing Merge doesn't)

Thanks

Julian

Thanks. That's what I was trying to do; however, I couldn't figure out how to
run the .REG file and have the updates successfully apply. I kept getting
errors indicating that I did not have administrator access.

I had been opening a command prompt and running the .REG file with the RunAs
command, trying to impersonate an administrator account. After doing a little
more digging, I realized that I needed to open the command prompt as an
administrator (by right-clicking the Command Prompt menu item and selecting
"Run as administrator") and then run the .REG file.

After successfully running the .REG file in this way, my ZIP file
association problem was resolved.

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

Julian,

That really puzzles me! How about running regedit.exe directly or using this syntax:

"regedit.exe PATH:\filename.reg"

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Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]
Windows® Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com


Hi Ramesh,

no it didn't prompt - at least that would have been consistent. I was happy
that the PNG issue with Help & Support was resolved, puzzled that it didn't
update all keys, but I left it at that... it was only because I was looking
for something else (Indexing Search within ZIPs that I stumbled across this
and I thought I'd give it a go.

*&^%! UAC - gets in the way when I don't want it, doesn't pop up when it
should do!

Julian

Interesting one, Julian. Did clicking the "Merge" option prompt you for elevation (UAC)?

--
Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]
Windows® Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com


That was helpful to learn... why on earth if I am running as Admin should I
need to "Run As" Cmd and then run the reg file... but I do, and it works!
(whereas right-clicking on the reg file and choosing Merge doesn't)

Thanks

Julian

Thanks. That's what I was trying to do; however, I couldn't figure out how to
run the .REG file and have the updates successfully apply. I kept getting
errors indicating that I did not have administrator access.

I had been opening a command prompt and running the .REG file with the RunAs
command, trying to impersonate an administrator account. After doing a little
more digging, I realized that I needed to open the command prompt as an
administrator (by right-clicking the Command Prompt menu item and selecting
"Run as administrator") and then run the .REG file.

After successfully running the .REG file in this way, my ZIP file
association problem was resolved.

 

[Guest]

Yes, that caused a UAC prompt.

FYI - not sure if it's relevant but maybe you can try reproducing this to
see if it has any effect...

I was always ultra cautious about .reg files, so I changed the default
association to Notepad (so accidental opening wouldn't merge and I could
inspect/edit by double clicking - an old XP hangover possibly no longer
required with Vista) - but of course this lost me the Merge option on the
context menu... so when I did want Merge, I changed the association back...

Merging i the PNG fix was the very first thing I did after re-associating
..reg with regedit

Julian,

That really puzzles me! How about running regedit.exe directly or using this syntax:

"regedit.exe PATH:\filename.reg"

--
Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]
Windows® Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com


Hi Ramesh,

no it didn't prompt - at least that would have been consistent. I was happy
that the PNG issue with Help & Support was resolved, puzzled that it didn't
update all keys, but I left it at that... it was only because I was looking
for something else (Indexing Search within ZIPs that I stumbled across this
and I thought I'd give it a go.

*&^%! UAC - gets in the way when I don't want it, doesn't pop up when it
should do!

Julian

Interesting one, Julian. Did clicking the "Merge" option prompt you for elevation (UAC)?

--
Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]
Windows® Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com


That was helpful to learn... why on earth if I am running as Admin should I
need to "Run As" Cmd and then run the reg file... but I do, and it works!
(whereas right-clicking on the reg file and choosing Merge doesn't)

Thanks

Julian

Thanks. That's what I was trying to do; however, I couldn't figure out how to
run the .REG file and have the updates successfully apply. I kept getting
errors indicating that I did not have administrator access.

I had been opening a command prompt and running the .REG file with the RunAs
command, trying to impersonate an administrator account. After doing a little
more digging, I realized that I needed to open the command prompt as an
administrator (by right-clicking the Command Prompt menu item and selecting
"Run as administrator") and then run the .REG file.

After successfully running the .REG file in this way, my ZIP file
association problem was resolved.

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

Thanks! Will try this later.

--
Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]
Windows® Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com


Yes, that caused a UAC prompt.

FYI - not sure if it's relevant but maybe you can try reproducing this to
see if it has any effect...

I was always ultra cautious about .reg files, so I changed the default
association to Notepad (so accidental opening wouldn't merge and I could
inspect/edit by double clicking - an old XP hangover possibly no longer
required with Vista) - but of course this lost me the Merge option on the
context menu... so when I did want Merge, I changed the association back...

Merging i the PNG fix was the very first thing I did after re-associating
..reg with regedit

 

[Guest]

I'm having the same issue.

Some sites indicated it had to do with Microsoft Defender... But, after
disabling it, it's still slow.

I also read something about Vista possibly running a restore point or
something...not to sure on that one, but any help regarding the slow
extraction of zip files would be great!!!

I have a different issue with zip files. I do alot of game testing, which
quite often means D/Ling very large zip files from the company ftp server.
These are often files 300-400meg compressed and 500-600megs uncompressed.
The problem I have is that windows seems to not only take 100% of the cpu
during a copy/uncompress function but still takes horrendously long to unzip
the files. For instance windows will take 4.5 hours for a file that WinRAR
takes a mere 15-20mins to extract the same files on the same machine.
Anyone else experience this or have ay ideas?

CS

Could windows update not have some sort of add-on "file association check"
that could allow the user to choose which files to reassociate with the
windows defaults, in much the same way that when I install, for example,
realplayer, it gives me a list of file associations I can make?

Maybe a wizard is the order of the day.

Thanks all for your help though.

You're welcome Wayne.

Windows Update fix common problems like this?

Good idea. As long as it does not interfere with the user's preferences
(file assoc), then it\'s fine.

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Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]
Windows® XP Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com


Thanks Ramesh. That fixed it! Why doesn't Windows Update fix common
problems like this?

:

The .zip file association fix is available here:
http://www.winhelponline.com/articles/105/1/

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Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]
Windows® XP Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com


message That's just it! There is NO "Extract All" option!

:

Waistcoat

You didn't give any details about where you are looking? Right click
a ..zip
file and you should see an item called "Extract All" on the pop-up
menu.

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Ronnie Vernon
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User

 

[Guest]

hey i dl mixtapes from a site and when i dl they are supposed to be
compressed files by default but i can no longer accept that as an option.
then when i dl it i cant hit extract all so idk what to do.

Running the REG file from the subject user account (that's experiencing the .zip file problem) should help, as the REG file resets a user key in addition to fixing the file associations.

Example:

Restore the .exe file association in Windows Vista, after incorrectly associating it with another application:
http://www.winhelponline.com/articles/165/1/

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Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]
Windows® Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com


Thanks for your post. For some bizarre reason on my PC, ZIP files have become
associated with Microsoft Word. Reverting the association to its original
program is proving to be quite an ordeal.

I downloaded the the zipfix_vista.reg file from the URL in your post. A note
on that page says: "Note that you need to be an administrator to apply these
fixes." I'm purposely running as a non-administrator account on my PC. Sure
enough, when I try to merge the .reg file, I get the following message:
"Cannot import C:\Users\Chris\Downloads\zipfix_vista.reg: Not all data was
successfully written to the registry. Some keys are open by the system or
other processes." This is a strange error, since I'm not aware of any keys
being open; certainly, I don't have RegEdit open. The file association is
fine for the administrator account, so I don't believe that merging the ..REG
file while logged on as the administrator will fix this problem.

I've tried using the RunAs command to run RegEdit as the administrator
account, but it comes back with: "RUNAS ERROR: Unable to run - regedit. 740:
The requested operation requires elevation." I'm not sure what this means nor
how (or if) I can get around it.

I suppose I could try temporarily changing my user account to be an
administrator, but that seems quite extreme. Why is this so difficult to
accomplish?

The .zip file association fix is available here:
http://www.winhelponline.com/articles/105/1/

--
Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]
Windows® XP Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com


That's just it! There is NO "Extract All" option!

Waistcoat

You didn't give any details about where you are looking? Right click a ..zip
file and you should see an item called "Extract All" on the pop-up menu.

--

Ronnie Vernon
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User


Hi all,

I've suddenly lost my ability to unzip files.

Vista (business) doesn't seem to have an associated program, and I don't
know where to find it. Anyone know?

I don't really want to shell out 40 smackers for winzip if I don't have
to.

I was able to decompress when I had XP, anyone know what happened?

 

[Guest]

I have a similar problem:
Using Vista Home Premium at workplace. Been recieving e-mail attachment
every Thursday from "CBDisk-FedBizOpps". (Contract bid opportunities). They
sent their own CD-Rom to install so as to download these zip files to. Was
working fine until all of a sudden, when it comes to open the file to install
the weekly issue I get this-"Dyna Zip Unzip error: Zip structure invalid
(Problem reading Zip file)" What has happened? Is this a Windows problem?

 

[Wandering]

I don't know what the source of the problem is, but it's probably just a
corrupt file. If you want a fine file compression and expansion program that
will handle most formats, try the free, open source PeaZip.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the sugestion, Wandering. I will write that down and save it in
case I need it later, but for right now the problem seems to be solved. I
just took a chance on changing the compatibility program's "use an older
version of Windows" and changed it to "Windows 98". It seems to work well now.
ST

 

[Black Baptist]

Zip association is still with Vista it might be a corrupt zip file.

 

[CanesFan]

Yes, it seemed to have given me the option to extract again as it is now
associated with the program again but as mentioned below the icon is still
not back.

Maybe a restart will do the trick. Anyone have the zipfolder icon come back
after doing this fix spoken about here?

Thanks it helped me too, but the default icon wasn't resurrected :-(

The .zip file association fix is available here:
http://www.winhelponline.com/articles/105/1/

--
Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]
Windows® XP Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com

 

[CanesFan]

Restart of computer seemed to do the trick of the icon issue, all is well now.

Thanks.

Yes, it seemed to have given me the option to extract again as it is now
associated with the program again but as mentioned below the icon is still
not back.

Maybe a restart will do the trick. Anyone have the zipfolder icon come back
after doing this fix spoken about here?

Thanks it helped me too, but the default icon wasn't resurrected :-(

The .zip file association fix is available here:
http://www.winhelponline.com/articles/105/1/

--
Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]
Windows® XP Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

A reboot will do the trick. In case that does not work, you may have to rebuild the icons. See:

Incorrect icon shown for a file type in Vista:
http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/incorrect-icon-shown-for-a-file-type-in-vista/

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Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]
The Winhelponline Blog: http://www.winhelponline.com/blog
Windows® Troubleshooting: http://www.winhelponline.com

Yes, it seemed to have given me the option to extract again as it is now
associated with the program again but as mentioned below the icon is still
not back.

Maybe a restart will do the trick. Anyone have the zipfolder icon come back
after doing this fix spoken about here?

Thanks it helped me too, but the default icon wasn't resurrected :-(

The .zip file association fix is available here:
http://www.winhelponline.com/articles/105/1/

--
Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]
Windows® XP Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com

 

[r davis]

Ronnie, can you help me out?..... I am unable to post questions to newsgroups
from any computer or windows platform..... Is there a problem with
posting?.....

when i try to post a message, i get a response stating something like,,"an
error occurred, and will be reviewed at microsoft etc..... this has been
like this for about a week now.....


please help

thank you

 

[Gordon]

Ronnie, can you help me out?..... I am unable to post questions to
newsgroups
from any computer or windows platform..... Is there a problem with
posting?.....

when i try to post a message, i get a response stating something like,,"an
error occurred, and will be reviewed at microsoft etc..... this has been
like this for about a week now.....

Do yourself a BIG favour and ditch the horrible web interface. Use a news
reader instead.

Setting up Outlook Express/Windows Mail to access Microsoft newsgroups
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/outlookexpressnewreader.htm

Accessing the MS newsgroups in Outlook Express/Windows Mail Newsreader
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/newsgroupsetup.mspx