Thank you. That did it. Gotta word it right to get results, though.

Who would have thought that I would not get a usable hit when searching for:

winzip uninstall windows xp restore,

windows xp lost extract all,

windows xp extract all winzip,

and six or seven others, none of which returned usable results - just lots
of stuff on other unzipping utilities and how to remove WinZIP.

I should have thought to search on: restore native windows zip

How obvious. Silly me.


"Shenan Stanley" wrote:

> Brian wrote:
> > I uninstalled WinZIP from a client's PC (Windows XP SP3), since
> > Windows has ZIP file extraction built-in. However, the Extract All
> > option is not available on right-click of ZIP files, and ZIP files
> > do not appear with the ZIP folder icon. I can double-click the ZIP
> > file and see the contents, then manually drag files out.
> >
> > How do I get back the native Windows XP ZIP-management environment?
>
> Client?
>
> Now is a great time to point you to one of the easiest ways to find
> information on problems you may be having and solutions others have found:
>
> Search using Google!
> http://www.google.com/
> (How-to: http://www.google.com/intl/en/help/basics.html )
>
> Example...
> http://www.google.com/search?q=restore+Windows+XP+ZIP
>
> First hit:
> http://windowsxp.mvps.org/zipfldr.htm
>
> Come back - let everyone know if this helps. This message will be archived
> indefinitely - perhaps repolicated many times over. Your reply as to
> whether or not this helped might re-assure those who search for the same
> answer in the future.
>
> --
> Shenan Stanley
> MS-MVP
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