Windows 2000 does not do this. You are running Windows XP, most likely. I
have never been able to find a way to disable searching zips without totally
disabling the zip support in XP (which is fine). The fact that it searches
them is beyond annoying, as you also know. I mean, come on! Enough with
the nine hour searches! But, to disable zip support in XP, open a command
prompt (cmd.exe) and enter this:
regsvr32 /u zipfldr.dll
By doing this, you will need to use another application, like Winzip or
WinRAR or something, to access your zip files. That's the way it should be
anyway, in my opinion. If you want to re-enabled the built in zip support
again, open a command prompt (cmd.exe) and enter:
regsvr32 zipfldr.dll
You can actually execute these commands right in the Run dialog if you like.
The change will not require a reboot.
Ray at work
E.M.Smith said:
How do you keep Windows 2000 from searching compressed ZIP files? It
takes so much time... Thanks.
