Exclude file type from WinXP search???

[Doug]

I have a user that needs to exclude ZIP files from her search. There
is no option to exclude available.

The user is on a slow WAN connection to their server, but has to
search through thousands of files. The problem is that some of the
files are ZIP files, and many of those are 30M+. So, we want to
exclude *.zip from the search.

The problem ultimately lies with WinXp's ability to search inside ZIP
files. So now it's trying to pull this 30M file across the 256K frame
(shared with 7 other PC's) so it can search inside it. Turning off
XP's ability to handle Zip's has already been tried, unfortunately
that tends to be short lived because XP will retake control of Zip
files. And there isn't way that I've found to remove Zip support
forever.

 

[GSV Three Minds in a Can]

I have a user that needs to exclude ZIP files from her search. There
is no option to exclude available.

The user is on a slow WAN connection to their server, but has to
search through thousands of files. The problem is that some of the
files are ZIP files, and many of those are 30M+. So, we want to
exclude *.zip from the search.

The problem ultimately lies with WinXp's ability to search inside ZIP
files. So now it's trying to pull this 30M file across the 256K frame
(shared with 7 other PC's) so it can search inside it. Turning off
XP's ability to handle Zip's has already been tried, unfortunately
that tends to be short lived because XP will retake control of Zip
files. And there isn't way that I've found to remove Zip support
forever.

Start, run regsvr32 / u zipfld.dll turns off zip handling until you turn
it back on. if you download and install winzip (or similar) and use that
for zip handling (associate it with .zip files) then winXP stays out of
the loop forever (at least mine has).