Anyway to keep Windows XP search from looking through zip files?

stevewm

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To stop this from happening you have to disable XP's built in ZIP file support.

You can do this by issuing this command at the Run prompt: regsvr32 /u %windir%\system32\zipfldr.dll

To re-enable it use this command: regsvr32 %windir%\system32\zipfldr.dll