microsoft word takeover

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David Coleman

Hello! Please help me... Whenever I download a product
from the internet that is compressed, I never get the
chance to try open it using WinZip. Microsoft Word takes
the product over and when I use the program to try to open
the product, all I get is a document full of computer code.
What can I do to stop Word from automatically taking over
and/or launching without my launching it? Thank you for
your time and help... David
 
If you are using Winzip to extract your ".ZIP" and ".CAB" files, you may
change the defaults in WinZip so that it opens up the files instead of
Microsoft Works. There should be an option on there to make WinZip the
default client for ".ZIP" files. If this doesn't help, you may still open
up WinZip and let it do a complete scan of your hard drive to detect all
..ZIP files on it and select the one you want to extract, and it will do it
for you. Hope I could've been more of a help.
 
There are two places where you can change the association of what
application opens a given file type. I will start with WinZip, version 8.1:
1. Options -> Configurations -> System -> Associations
2. Check the boxes of the file types you want WinZip to open
3. click OK and exit

The second method is through the Control Panel:
1. Open Control Panel (I use Start -> Settings -> Control Panel)
2. Tools -> Folder Options -> File Types
3. Scroll through the list and make the necessary changes.
a. highlight the CAB extension
b. click on Change
c. highlight application
d. click OK
 
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