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Vista Tutorial - ZIP File Support - Restore

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Old 05-22-2007  
Brink
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ZIP File Support - Restore

How to Restore the Built-in ZIP File Support in Vista


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Last edited by Brink; 05-07-2009 at 05:24 AM..
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Old 05-13-2008  
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Re: ZIP file in Vista

LOL, your right. You will use .cab instead of .zip in the command for cab files. Method Two will restore everything for you though.

Shawn

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Old 05-28-2008  
ice_phoenix721
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Re: ZIP file in Vista

Thank you, thank you, thank you sooooo much. My idiot friend messed up my zip files a while back and I have been going absolutely insane trying to fix it and figure out what he did. This finally did it and I couldn't be more appreciative. Thank you again.
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Old 05-28-2008  
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Re: ZIP file in Vista

Your welcome Ice_Phoenix, and welcome to Vista Forums.

Shawn
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Old 06-04-2008  
Brean27
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Re: ZIP file in Vista

One night I tried to watch an episode of "The Office" and NBC.com, downloaded the NBC viewer, and corrupted everything on my computer. Everything has been restored except the compression software. I just downloaded the zip file in Vista, it fixed everything. However, the icon for zipped files is still an Adobe PDF icon. Why? How can I change that? Thanks!
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Old 06-04-2008  
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Re: ZIP file in Vista

Hi Brean27,

Welcome to Vista Forums.

After you ran this tutorial, you may need to restart the computer to apply the changes.

If you have, then see if rebuilding the icon cache will help.

Icon Cache - Rebuild

Hope this helps,
Shawn
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Old 06-05-2008  
Brean27
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Re: ZIP file in Vista

Thank you so much, Shawn! I didn't even have to restart my computer. But some bitmaps opened up in Windows Media Player, how can I change that?

Also, when everything became corrupted, I could not use Sonic Stage or Windows Media to play music or burn CDs. Things became a mess when I tried to. I have been afraid since then to try....

Thanks again!
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Old 06-05-2008  
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Re: ZIP file in Vista

Your welcome Brean.

You can fix the bitmaps by making sure that Windows Photo Gallery has all of it's default association set to it. This tutorial will show you how to. You might also do the same for Windows Media Player to see if it can help that issue to.

Default Programs - Program Default Associations

Shawn
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Old 06-05-2008  
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Re: ZIP file in Vista

I wanted my pics to open in Microsoft Picture Manager. Everything else did, but the Bitmaps did not. What should I do with Sonic Stage, though
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Old 06-05-2008  
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Re: ZIP file in Vista

Brean,

Well, you can also set those programs for all of their default association if they are listed in Default Programs in the tutorial posted above.

If not, then you can manually associate the file extension to be associated with those programs to be opened by default with them. This tutorial will show you how to.

Default Programs
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Old 06-05-2008  
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Re: ZIP file in Vista

Thanks! I figured it out last night. But, thanks! Now with my other problem with SonicStage: As I was turning off my computer, even though I could not close out the Sonic Stage trying to install itself, I got the message, "Windows Installer service is not correctly installed."

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