WinZip

[Simon Hasine]

I believed Winzip or a similar program came installed in
my XP window. As a result,I never had a problem watching
Color slides (diaporamas)in the past. Suddenly I could
not open such files anymore. Itried to download Winzip on
a free loan program that lasted only 2 weeks and it
worked. Now WinZip is asking I pay to download a permanet
program. Do I need to do that or do I have an unzip
program embeded somewhere in my computer?
Thank you for your help
Simon

 

[Jerry]

WinXP comes with the ability to unZIP files - WinZIP is not really needed.
If you have lost that ability in XP then that's the problem you should be
trying to fix.

 

[Will Denny]

Hi

If you don't want to pay for WinZip uninstall it then type or copy/paste the
following into Start>Run:

regsvr32 zipfldr.dll

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Will Denny
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
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| I believed Winzip or a similar program came installed in
| my XP window. As a result,I never had a problem watching
| Color slides (diaporamas)in the past. Suddenly I could
| not open such files anymore. Itried to download Winzip on
| a free loan program that lasted only 2 weeks and it
| worked. Now WinZip is asking I pay to download a permanet
| program. Do I need to do that or do I have an unzip
| program embeded somewhere in my computer?
| Thank you for your help
| Simon

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

In

I believed Winzip or a similar program came installed in
my XP window.

Winzip is a third-party program (one of several with zip/unzip
capability) Neither it, nor any of the others, comes with Windows

However Windows XP has it's own built-in zip/unzip capabilityand
that's what you probably were using.

As a result,I never had a problem watching
Color slides (diaporamas)in the past. Suddenly I could
not open such files anymore. Itried to download Winzip on
a free loan program that lasted only 2 weeks and it
worked. Now WinZip is asking I pay to download a permanet
program.

Yes, it's shareware, not free.

Do I need to do that or do I have an unzip
program embeded somewhere in my computer?

You can use the built-in one. See Will Denny's instructions in
anoither reply.

 

[*Vanguard*]

Simon Hasine said in news:[email protected]:

I believed Winzip or a similar program came installed in
my XP window. As a result,I never had a problem watching
Color slides (diaporamas)in the past. Suddenly I could
not open such files anymore. Itried to download Winzip on
a free loan program that lasted only 2 weeks and it
worked. Now WinZip is asking I pay to download a permanet
program. Do I need to do that or do I have an unzip
program embeded somewhere in my computer?
Thank you for your help
Simon

If you want more features than are provided by the embedding .zip support included in Windows XP, and if you don't want to pay for WinZip, you could try using UltimateZip. It's free but the downside is that it is bannerware. As soon as I read that it used advertising in the freebie version, poof, my interest vanished so I cannot tell you if it is a good product or not. I think later they removed the advertising (it wasn't working to generate revenue to offset the resources to provide it) and now annoy you with a startup screen when you load the program ($16 for the no-nag version). I already have PKZip so there wasn't any push for me to trial UltimateZip.

 

[Sam Hobbs]

If you want more features than are provided by the embedding .zip support
included in Windows XP, and if you don't want to pay for WinZip, you could
try using UltimateZip.

 

[Henk Devos]

Also see http://www.info-zip.org; it is explicitly free. I have not used it
much, since I also have paid the small fee for WinZip, however I doubt it
has banners even.

How about www.alphazip.com ?

 

[Sam Hobbs]

How about www.alphazip.com ?

Yeah, how about it? Do you not know anything about it?

Based on what I see in the web site, it is not free. There is a trial
version available in the web site but I assume the trial version stops
working after the trial period. I assume you did not know that and that is
why you did not say it is not free.

Compare that to Wiz, available from http://www.info-zip.org. It is free,
without banners or trial periods. The source code is also available.
According to the web site, some of it's code is used in commercial software.
Also according to the web site "Info-ZIP's purpose is to provide free,
portable, high-quality versions ....". Go to the web site if you want to
read the rest of that.