Can windows explorer search of compressed files be disabled

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E N Coleman

With large zip files in a directory it takes a long time
for windows explorer to display the contents of the
directory. Is there a way to stop windows explorer from
building a directory tree for the contents of compressed
that is zipped files other than by changing the file
extension?
 
Click Start, Run and enter REGSVR32 /U ZIPFLDR.DLL

This disables XP built in ZIP file handling. To re-enable it, enter
REGSVR32 ZIPFLDR.DLL
 
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