I do I tell windows not to treat zip files like folders?

[Bob]

How can I tell WindowsXP to not treat zip files as "folders"? I don't want
to (from a file search result set) have to worry about looking at the end of
a very long path to see if it ends in ".zip" to see if I'm either moving a
real file or changing the contents of a .zip file. Not only is the concept
ludicrous to me, that I have to worry about changing archives I want left
alone, but when I make the mistake of moving or deleting files from them
from a search result, often Explorer locks up and I have to kill it, from
which WindowsXP may or may not recover. Often I need to reboot. Boo! I want
a way to turn this "feature" off!

Bob

 

[Quietman]

You can turn off the integration of zip files with explorer by following the
guide below:

http://www.windows-help.net/WindowsXP/tune-14.html

 

[Bob]

Thanks, just what I was looking for

 

[Kelly]

Hi Bob,

Before Search:
regsvr32 /u zipfldr.dll
regsvr32 /u cabview.dll

After Search:
regsvr32 zipfldr.dll
regsvr32 cabview.dll