Can't open zip files
Using Windows Server 2003 R2 Service Pack 2. This seems relatively straight forward so let me know if I'm leaving anything out. When I create a zip file from either the application I wrote in VB or just selecting a group of folders -> Right Click and select Sent To -> Compressed (zipped) folder I'm not able to then open that file after it is created. This works fine in 2000 Server, XP and 2008 Server, just not when I try to do this on my 2003 server. Any ideas?
May 11th, 2011 11:00am

hi temlehdrol, any special name given for the zip ? I encountered similar problem before. It is due to the japanese character inside the zip name. Maybe you can try to rename the zip file? what's the error message you get when failed to unzip ? Cheers, lyongs
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May 11th, 2011 9:39pm

Are you getting any error message? If so please post the error message details here. Santhosh Sivarajan | MCTS, MCSE (W2K3/W2K/NT4), MCSA (W2K3/W2K/MSG), CCNA, Network+ Houston, TX Blogs - http://blogs.sivarajan.com/ Articles - http://www.sivarajan.com/publications.html Twitter: @santhosh_sivara - http://twitter.com/santhosh_sivara This posting is provided AS IS with no warranties,and confers no rights.
May 11th, 2011 10:40pm

Nope, no special character or anything... the name of the zip file is April2011.zip. Also no error message or anything just sits and spins and eventually you get the "Not Responding" in the banner. One thing I did forget to mention (there is always one), it's on a network drive though not sure where that would matter. Also on a gigabit network the "usage" goes up to about 40% if you look at the task manager while this is going on. When I say it works fine on 2000 server, XP and 2008 they are all looking at the same shared drive and file.
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May 12th, 2011 7:05am

is this using the native zip handler, or a 3rd party manager? What's the output of these 2 commands: assoc .zip ftype compressedfolder also, do you get anything in the event log?
May 12th, 2011 6:59pm

how about copy the zip file to local drive and unzip it?
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May 12th, 2011 8:30pm

if I copy the file locally it does open.
May 13th, 2011 8:38am

This is using the "native zip handler". N:\FileBackup>assoc .zip .zip=CompressedFolder N:\FileBackup>ftype compressedfolder compressedfolder=rundll32.exe zipfldr.dll,RouteTheCall %L This is what I get in the event log after I kill the window when it stops responding and nothing else in the log. Event Type: Information Event Source: Winlogon Event Category: None Event ID: 1002 Date: 5/13/2011 Time: 8:47:23 AM User: N/A Computer: TS4 Description: The shell stopped unexpectedly and Explorer.exe was restarted. For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
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May 13th, 2011 8:46am

It must be zip files corruption if it's right make use of following source http://www.zip.fixtoolbox.com
June 25th, 2012 3:55am

pl. check regsvr32 /u zipfldr.dll regsvr32 zipfldr.dll
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June 26th, 2012 3:22am

I'll take a look at that tomorrow when I get to work...
June 27th, 2012 8:25pm

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