vista freezes opening an extracted zip file.

[Guest]

Why does Vista take forever to open a zip file? Could something be interfering?

 

[I eat vista]

you are using a crap OS thats all...

try XP, you will like it

 

[Guest]

Stupid answer.

you are using a crap OS thats all...

try XP, you will like it

 

[Guest]

I cant use XP. HP will not give me the raid drivers to install XP on the SATA
drive. I found a set of drivers from Intel that let me start the install but

 

[I eat vista]

in that case I will give you a serious reply, although it might not be a
direct solution it may serve you for a limited period of time

you should try zipgenius a freeware that integrates with the windows
explorer shell too (right click) and is compatible with vista.
http://www.zipgenius.it/eng/index.php

ZipGenius is the absolutely free software for Windows® that lets you
compress files to almost any kind of archive. ZipGenius supports more than
20 compressed archive formats, including CD/DVD-ROM image files in ISO9660
standard. This is the file compression suite you were searching for: it is
free and easy to use, plus it supports more than 20 formats of compressed
archives, including RAR, ARJ, ACE, CAB, SQX, OpenOffice.org documents and
the excellent 7-zip. ZipGenius now can precompress executable files going to
be added to a ZIP archive through the UPX compressor.

 

[I eat vista]

make sure you get version ZipGenius 6.0.3.1140
that works with vista

you can find it here:
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Compression-tools/ZipGenius.shtml

 

[Frank]

Why does Vista take forever to open a zip file? Could something be interfering?

We use WinRAR on all of our 9 Vista Ultimate installs.
Works just fine...just like it does on XP, 2K, ME whatever...we see no
difference in its speed of unzipping of any files.
Frank

 

[I eat vista]

winrar is great its what I use too, but its not free.. I proposed to him
another freeware achieve program that is very good and works with vista.

-shazbat

 

[ceed]

Frank wrote:

|greatbeav wrote:
|
||Why does Vista take forever to open a zip file? Could something be
||interfering?
||
|
|We use WinRAR on all of our 9 Vista Ultimate installs.
|Works just fine...just like it does on XP, 2K, ME whatever...we see
|no difference in its speed of unzipping of any files. Frank


I've used WinRAR for years. Great program. I've tried other archivers,
but I always come back to WinRAR. I have also disabled zipped folder
support in Vista (among other things).