Windows XP and Winzip Files Question

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This may be the wrong group to ask this and if so I apologize.



I am running Winzip under XP and every time I DL a .zip file it opens

in Winzip instead of just letting me save it. How and where do I find

setting or whatever to let me just save the .zip files??



TIA
 
On 2/25/2010 7:28 AM On a whim, kraut pounded out on the keyboard



>

> This may be the wrong group to ask this and if so I apologize.

>

> I am running Winzip under XP and every time I DL a .zip file it opens

> in Winzip instead of just letting me save it. How and where do I find

> setting or whatever to let me just save the .zip files??

>

> TIA

>

>



You don't mention what version of Winzip, but check the Options within

Winzip. It most likely is there.





Terry R.

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Launch "Folder Options" then open the "File Types" tab.

Scroll down to zip, select it then click the "Advanced" button.

Check the box "Confirm open after download".



(WinZIP uses a proprietary algorithm making its zip files

unreadable in most other archiving programs)





ju.c





"kraut" wrote in message news:0g5do5hmpijvkkden0esta07gbvl85ljrr@4ax.com...

>

>

> This may be the wrong group to ask this and if so I apologize.

>

> I am running Winzip under XP and every time I DL a .zip file it opens

> in Winzip instead of just letting me save it. How and where do I find

> setting or whatever to let me just save the .zip files??

>

> TIA

>
 
On 25 Feb 2010, "ju.c" wrote in

microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:



> (WinZIP uses a proprietary algorithm making its zip files

> unreadable in most other archiving programs)



I've been using Winzip for decades and have never found that to be

true. Where did you get that idea?
 
"Nil" wrote in message

news:Xns9D2AD4AAF654Bnilch1@130.133.4.11...

> On 25 Feb 2010, "ju.c" wrote in

> microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:

>

>> (WinZIP uses a proprietary algorithm making its zip files

>> unreadable in most other archiving programs)

>

> I've been using Winzip for decades and have never found that to be

> true. Where did you get that idea?



He made it up because he has small pen1s and corresponding smaller brain!

He is under the influence of Microsoft Valuable Pigs.
 
The comfirm was / is checked and makes no difference.



Thanks anyways.



Winzip 14 by the way.







On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:19:41 -0800, "ju.c"

wrote:



>Launch "Folder Options" then open the "File Types" tab.

>Scroll down to zip, select it then click the "Advanced" button.

>Check the box "Confirm open after download".

>

>

>"kraut" wrote in message news:0g5do5hmpijvkkden0esta07gbvl85ljrr@4ax.com...

>>

>>

>> This may be the wrong group to ask this and if so I apologize.

>>

>> I am running Winzip under XP and every time I DL a .zip file it opens

>> in Winzip instead of just letting me save it. How and where do I find

>> setting or whatever to let me just save the .zip files??

>>

>> TIA

>>
 
This IS true if the sender sets a password. A total PITA as well, since

unless you run a hex-editor over the file looking for telltale strings you

have no way of knowing what program created the 'zip that isn't a zip' or why

it won't unzip in other progs.



I would recommend 7-Zip or ZipCentral as better, free alternatives.



"ju.c" wrote:





> (WinZIP uses a proprietary algorithm making its zip files

> unreadable in most other archiving programs)

>
 
On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:19:41 -0800, "ju.c"

wrote:





> (WinZIP uses a proprietary algorithm making its zip files

> unreadable in most other archiving programs)





Sorry, but that is *not* correct.



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On 2/25/2010 9:28 AM, kraut wrote:



> I am running Winzip under XP and every time I DL a .zip file it opens

> in Winzip instead of just letting me save it. How and where do I find

> setting or whatever to let me just save the .zip files??



"How to stop Internet Explorer from opening downloaded Zip files"

http://kb.winzip.com/kb/entry/69/



Notice that, for Windows 7 or Windows Vista,

they say that the only way they know of

is to directly edit the Registry -- a leap backwards, IMO.



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On 2/26/2010 9:34 AM, Anteaus wrote:



> [Can't open zip?] if the sender sets a password.



Any archive in original Zip format and using "Winzip 2.0" encryption

can be decrypted by XP itself (provided you know the password),

or by almost any other program that understands the Zip format,

which is public, standardized, and compatible with many other tools.



The advanced "AES" encryption may or may not be understood by other tools.



Winzip made its format extensions public, and wanted them accepted

as a standard, but I don't know whether there are any conflicts

between Winzip's and PKware's format and feature extensions, for example.



"Old Password protection"

http://kb.winzip.com/kb/entry/45/



"How strong is WinZip's encryption?"

http://kb.winzip.com/kb/entry/80/



"What is AES Encryption?"

http://kb.winzip.com/kb/entry/109/



"Is WinZip compatible with older versions of WinZip and other Zip file utilities?"

http://kb.winzip.com/kb/entry/36/



"Information about the Zip file format"

http://kb.winzip.com/kb/entry/49/



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kraut wrote:

> This may be the wrong group to ask this and if so I apologize.

>

> I am running Winzip under XP and every time I DL a .zip file it opens

> in Winzip instead of just letting me save it. How and where do I find

> setting or whatever to let me just save the .zip files??

>

> TIA



Do you 'save to disk' or 'open with.'
 
I've received zip files that I could not extract using IZArc, 7-Zip or

WinRAR. In-program test results would be like this:



! file.zip: Unknown method in path\file.ext



I would ask people to re-pack and re-send, but I'd always get the

error.



I solved that by asking for a self extracting archive.



It turns out that they were all created with WinZip.



(PowerArchiver could extract the data just fine)





ju.c





"Nil" wrote in message news:Xns9D2AD4AAF654Bnilch1@130.133.4.11...

> On 25 Feb 2010, "ju.c" wrote in

> microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:

>

>> (WinZip uses a proprietary algorithm making its zip files

>> unreadable in most other archiving programs)

>

> I've been using Winzip for decades and have never found that to be

> true. Where did you get that idea?

>
 
On 01 Mar 2010, "ju.c" wrote in

microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:



> I've received zip files that I could not extract using IZArc,

> 7-Zip or WinRAR. In-program test results would be like this:

>

> ! file.zip: Unknown method in path\file.ext

>

> I would ask people to re-pack and re-send, but I'd always get the

> error.

>

> I solved that by asking for a self extracting archive.

>

> It turns out that they were all created with WinZip.

>

> (PowerArchiver could extract the data just fine)



I'm skeptical. There are several possible explainations for the error

message, including poorly-chosen options on the creator's end and setup

problems on your end. I've never heard of anyone else having that

problem, and I certainly haven't. If Winzip's files were incompatible

with other archivers, the problem would be widely known.



> "Nil" wrote in message

> news:Xns9D2AD4AAF654Bnilch1@130.133.4.11...

>> On 25 Feb 2010, "ju.c" wrote in

>> microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:

>>

>>> (WinZip uses a proprietary algorithm making its zip files

>>> unreadable in most other archiving programs)

>>

>> I've been using Winzip for decades and have never found that to

>> be true. Where did you get that idea?
 
I've been using Winzip for as long as I can remember - probably since it first came out.



I've absolutely never had any problems whatsoever unzipping anything that Winzip is

designed to unzip. Never.
 
On 03 Mar 2010, "Toni" wrote in

microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:



> I've been using Winzip for as long as I can remember - probably

> since it first came out.

>

> I've absolutely never had any problems whatsoever unzipping

> anything that Winzip is designed to unzip. Never.



This guy is claiming the opposite, that archive files that Winzip

creates cannot be opened by other programs.



I don't believe it.
 
In news:Xns9D309413184A1nilch1@130.133.4.11,

Nil typed:

> On 03 Mar 2010, "Toni" wrote in

> microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:

>

>> I've been using Winzip for as long as I can remember -

>> probably since it first came out.

>>

>> I've absolutely never had any problems whatsoever unzipping

>> anything that Winzip is designed to unzip. Never.

>

> This guy is claiming the opposite, that archive files that

> Winzip creates cannot be opened by other programs.

>

> I don't believe it.



It's entirely possible if they are trying to open files that were zipped

with other than "legacy" format settings in Winzip.

Winzip has other zip formats available, several of which can only be

unzipped with Winzip. You get smaller files, but you also single-source what

can unzip them. You can read about it on their web site. I don't know of any

competition that has yet bothered to keep up with them but I also don't use

the special compression choices; legacy is good enough almost all the time.



For insatnce, it can use AES encryption in addition to zipping, including

passwords, etc.. Zipx and a few other types can't be opened with other apps

quite often, but they are the most compressed settings. And so on. Their web

site does a fair job of explaining things.



Just for grins, I grabbed a copy of the compressed files from Help that

winzip can handle. Ut can't necessarily create them but it can unzip them

:

Zip files

*.zip, *.zipx



LHA archives

*.lha, *.lzh



All archives

*.zip, *.zipx, *.z, *.gz, *.tz, *.taz, *.tgz, *.lha, *.lzh, *.tar,

*.cab, *.wmz, *.yfs, *.wsz, *.rar, *.bz, *.bz2, *.tbz, *.tbz2, *.7z, *.img,

*.iso



Encoded files

*.uu, *.uue, *.xxe,*.bhx, *.b64, *.hqx, *.mim



Archives and .exe files

*.zip, *.zipx, *.z, *.gz, *.tz, *.taz, *.tgz, *.lha, *.lzh, *.tar,

*.cab, *.wmz, *.yfs, *.wsz, *.exe, *.rar, *.bz, *.bz2, *.tbz, *.tbz2, *.7z,

*.img, *.iso



Archives, encoded, and .exe files

*.zip, *.zipx, *.z, *.gz, *.tz, *.taz, *.tgz, *.lha, *.lzh, *.tar,

*.cab, *.wmz, *.yfs, *.wsz, *.exe, *.uu, *.uue, *.xxe, *.bhx, *.b64, *.hqx,

*.mim, *.rar, *.bz, *.bz2, *.tbz, *.tbz2, *.7z, *.img, *.iso



WinZip® job files

*.wjf



All files (*.*)

*.*









HTH,



Twayne`

TH,



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