{"id":2687,"date":"2009-03-26T09:06:36","date_gmt":"2009-03-26T16:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/?p=2687"},"modified":"2009-03-26T09:06:36","modified_gmt":"2009-03-26T16:06:36","slug":"windows-explorer-shows-zip-files-as-folders-fixed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2009\/03\/26\/windows-explorer-shows-zip-files-as-folders-fixed\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows Explorer Shows Zip Files As Folders: Fixed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/zip.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-2688\" title=\"zip\" src=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/zip-200x146.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"146\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/zip-200x146.png 200w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/zip-300x220.png 300w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/zip.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>Why does windows do this? This is dumb. I want to view folders in the left window and files in the right. A .zip file is a FILE for a reason. I don&#8217;t want to see the compressed files inside it unless&#8230; unless I want to see them.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how to disable this &#8220;feature&#8221; in Windows. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Go to a command prompt and type:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>regsvr32 \/u zipfldr.dll<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can undo this with the following command<br \/>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>regsvr32 zipfldr.dll<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.pengoworks.com\/index.cfm\/2006\/2\/11\/Disabling-Windows-native-Zip-folder-support\">More on the subject<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why does windows do this? This is dumb. I want to view folders in the left window and files in the right. A .zip file is a FILE for a reason. I don&#8217;t want to see the compressed files inside it unless&#8230; unless I want to see them. Here&#8217;s how to disable this &#8220;feature&#8221; in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}