Vista - ZIP File Support - Restore

Just wanted to say THANKS from causing me to pull all my hair out!!!! I am not even going to ask why the unzip doesn't work in the first place as long as it's better now

Thank you so very much!!!

Your welcome Susan, and welcome to Vista Forums.

LOL, I thought there was some trouble at first from the first line of your post with the not missing in it.

Shawn

Okay.
I really need help.
I right clicked a zip file and went to Open With. Then I clicked the Internet Explorer Icon.
Now all zip files on my computer open into the IE window that maximises and minimises continuously.

I have spent all morning searching forums and tutorials here and downloading and deleting the various things theu suggest, but nothing has solved the dilemma..

Please help?
I'm going insane trying to fix this.

Lost and confused,
Caity

Hello Caity, and welcome to Vista Forums.

Doing Method One or Method Two in this tutorial should restore ZIP back to the default association in Vista. Sometimes, but rarely, you may need to restart the computer to apply the changes afterwards.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Ahhh thankyou
Yes, I tried the first one and it didn't seem to do much, but after I tried the second, it fixed right up.
Thank you so much!

Your welcome Caity.

Shawn

Hello,
I have managed to go into the 'set associations' as in file associations and for .zip I have unknown, for .zfsendtotarget I have notepad and word pad.

Needless to say I can't right click and send to compressed anymore.

1, how can I delete the notepad and wordpad associations?
2, what should the correct associations and paths to them be?

I have tried zipfix_vista, vistaunzip and zfsendtofix from other posts, no luck yet though.

Any support or suggestions most welcome,

thanks

Hello Londonblue,

Have you restarted the computer afterwards to see if that helps?

Did you use any registry cleaning programs right before this happened?

You might also run a sfc /scannow command to see if it can find and fix any bad system files that may be affecting this also.

System Files - SFC Command

Hope this helps for now,
Shawn

Hello Shawn,

Yes I have tried restarting, before running each fix.

I should have added that the reason for this file coruption is down to me changing it - doh! ..I know I just clicked the wrong thing too quickly. So no virus or malware here.

I ran the sfc / scannow command, too some time, but it did find some corrupted files. It tells me details are in the CBS.log. However when I try to view this 'access denied' pops up.

Is there no way to re-correct the associations manually via the set associations dialogue?

Thank you for your help
Jason

Jason,

The reg file download should have restored the default ZIP association in Vista.

See if also doing this tutorial will help.

Zip File Compressed Folders


If not, try the free 7-Zip program to see if it will work for you.

7-Zip