WinXP Pro Compressed Folders corrupted 1

[ronspree]

All my compressed folders in my WinXP Pro suddenly became corrupted. However, if I transfer these same files by LAN to another computer, they are fine.

Maybe if I could disable and re-enable compressed folders, this might resolve the problem? How do I do this?

 

[garebo]

Maybe this is stupid, but if you can copy them to another computer and they are good, then why not do so and then copy them back to the original computer? Or is there a reason its a no-no?


Good advice + great people = tek-tips

 

[ronspree]

Har har. Yes! That works (copying them back to the original computer uncompressed). But I still would prefer the original computer's capability in dealing with compressed folders restored. But yes, if it cannot be fixed, then I'd have to live with it and use your method of uncompressing files.

 

[bcastner]

I believe Forum member garebo is on the right track. The folders if transferred will transfer uncompressed.

Now what do you do?

I would use a third party tool such as WinZip or WinRar.

Start, Run, cmd

regsvr32 /u zipfldrs.dll

Now install a third-party tool.

 

[ronspree]

bcastner, a very strange but favorable thing happened! I wanted to disable and re-enable compressed folders, so I decided to try your regsvr32 method. It is:

regsvr32 /u zipfldr.dll (without the "s")

After the successful "unregister" command, I tried opening a zip folder, expecting it to be unrecognized. I was wrong!

It was recognized and all compressed folders are now operating normally! Haha! I didn't re-register it again because it is already working! Thanks guys.

 

[bcastner]

It was a typo on my part.
But you suggested the fix, and I offer it for others who may read this;

If you are having issues with compressed folders, try re-registering the critical DLLS involved:

regsvr32 cabview.dll
regsvr32 zipfldr.dll

 

[ronspree]

Great, thanks.