Unable to uncompress files

[Domenic Sal]

I'm unable to zip/unzip and rar/unrar files. What are the Vista file names I
need for function to work. I upgraded my machine to Vista Ultimate from
business and lost the function. Worked fine with Vista business version.
Tried to upgrade again still nojoy.
Thanks. D.S.

 

[Adam Albright]

I'm unable to zip/unzip and rar/unrar files. What are the Vista file names I
need for function to work. I upgraded my machine to Vista Ultimate from
business and lost the function. Worked fine with Vista business version.
Tried to upgrade again still nojoy.
Thanks. D.S.

You need a third party application like Winzip or WinRaR. Have you
tried going to Control Panel, Default Programs, Associate file types
and check what application if any is associated with archive files?

If either WinRar or some similar application is already installed on
your system, then that's what you need to associate archive file types
to. If you don't have any zip/unzip application yet installed, you
need to get one. Those are NOT part of Windows.

 

[Shane Nokes]

Incorrect.

Zip files are natively supported in Windows.

RAR and the like are not however.

 

[Guest]

Vista does natively support decompression of ZIP files. However, at least
for me, it takes hours and hours to decompress even a small file, which is
really annoying. I use my XP machine to decompress ZIP files. An annoyance
to be sure. If any one has any ideas on why Vista decompress at such a
maddeningly slow rate let me know.
G

 

[Shane Nokes]

What are your system specs?

On my system files unzip at the same speed as usual and I'm trying to find a
correlation.

 

[Guest]

This problem of decompressing ZIP files and them taking forever actually
occurs on both my Vista PC's. My server is still an XP machine and does not
have any ZIP issues.

Laptop
Vista Home Premium OS
HP dv6275us
2 Gigs of Ram
Intel Centrino Duo T5600 at 1.83 Ghz
nVidia GeForce 7400 Graphics card

Game Desktop
Vista Home Premium OS
ASUS A8N32-Deluxe Mother Board
AMD 939 socket 4600+ Dual Core 2.4 Ghz
2 Gigs of Ram
nVidia 8800 GTS

For some reason ZIPs take an eternity to decompress, the same ZIP file on my
XP would take a few seconds. I have no other issues with Vista except for
that. I actually like Vista quite a bit
Any tips on the ZIP problem would be great.
G

 

[Shane Nokes]

Are there any 3rd party zip or CD/DVD image handling utilities installed?

Or is it "vanilla" when it comes to compressed file support?

 

[Adam Albright]

Vista does natively support decompression of ZIP files. However, at least
for me, it takes hours and hours to decompress even a small file, which is
really annoying. I use my XP machine to decompress ZIP files. An annoyance
to be sure. If any one has any ideas on why Vista decompress at such a
maddeningly slow rate let me know.
G

Well obviously it shouldn't. Decompressing a file should take SECONDS,
not hours. What application are you using?

 

[Adam Albright]

Incorrect.

Zip files are natively supported in Windows.

RAR and the like are not however.

Really? Since when?

 

[Guest]

No third party software installed. Just using Vista's ability to decomp ZIP
files. I will get WinRar or something similar, that should solve the
problem. I was really just wondering if anyone else had trouble with
decomp'ing ZIP files with Vista.
By the way, maybe Adam Albright is a litte short with his responses eh?
Thnx Shane for the time
G

 

[Shane Nokes]

Native zip support in Windows has been present since at the very least
Windows 2000/ME.

I know that it could be integrated via Plus!98 as well using the same
structure that was used for the support in ME.

So it's been almost 10 years now.

The only reason I ever use add-on's now is WinRAR just for having RAR
compression/decompression capabilities. I actually disable WinRAR's ability
to handle ZIP, CAB, ISO, & JAR formats so that each program designed for
those formats handles them exclusively.

 

[Shane Nokes]

Occasionally he is, people tend to be that way around here

WinRar should definitely fix it if it takes over the capabilities.

I'm just stumped on what would cause the zip file support to be so broken
though as to take hours

 

[Guest]

Yeah I am not sure either, I will keep thinking on it and see if there is a
solution
Thx
G