zip or compressed files in Vista opening with wrong programs?

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Judging from Yahoo Answers, a lot of people are having trouble restoring
the default built in zip file function in Vista which works by
right-clicking.

If someone mistakenly right-clicks an zip folder and goes Open With >
Notepad for example, after that you lose you zip function, and the zip
folders are not yellow folders with zippers.

I need a response from someone who has had this problem and who has
solved it. The rest of you are well meaning; however, Vista shouldn't
need another zip file program, and going Open With > Choose Program
doesn't work, nor does going Control Panel > Program > Default Programs
Associate a File Type or Protocol with a Specific Program work.
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I had this problem 6 months ago, and it seemed to solve itself. I
suspect Vista after a few days restored its own defaults.
 
barman58 said:
You may want to have a look 'here'
(http://www.winhelponline.com/articles/105/1/File-association-fixes-for-Windows-Vista.html)
for instructions for most of vista's defaults

for the .zip you can also try ...

assoc .zip=CompressedFolder

in an elevated cmd prompt

hope this helps
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It worked. Thank you. I can't believe a newsgroup beats Yahoo Answers.
I had to merge the zipfix_vista.reg from your link in the
administrator account. That made the zip files extract by right-clicking.

To make the zip folders yellow folders with zippers again, I went Start
Goto All Programs > Expand the Accessories Folder > Right Click
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Command Prompt > Select Run as Administrator

Windows Vista will ask you if you were sure that you wanted to open the
command prompt as an administrator, say yes. Now from there type:

cmd /c assoc .zip=CompressedFolder .
 
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