Re: WinZip.
In fairness Shane, I didn't argue the point for or against "bells'n
whistles", my response was to offer a simple and *free* solution to (what I
guessed was) an urgent problem. Further, I'd dumped WinZip years ago in
favour of the WinMe - and more so - the XP compression utilities, which have
always been quite satisfactory for my needs.
Pita compared to WinZip? - Not my experience. In fact I found WinZip and
WinRar were more complicated/fiddly (too many bells). However I don't use
compression very often (other than .jpg and .mp3 - where I have other
applications to take care of those file types). Most times, I only need to
unzip (downloaded drivers, for example) where the MS utilities have always
been perfectly adequate for me.
Regarding the (WinZip) key-code - I'd registered for mine in the Win98 (or
was that 95) days, but as I later found the MS WinMe (de)compression utility
worked fine, I never bothered to upgrade and so the key was effectively
wasted (on me).
Hmm.. I'll have a think about Vista <bg>
I see Germany has sent you a huge water tanker. Are they trying to muscle-in
on the French? One consolation, we can be assured that British water has
been passed. Only the Brits would vandalise a bowser. <shrug>
Mart
"Shane" <shanebeatson@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>I have to say though, Mart, it is a pita compared to Winzip - or indeed
>Winrar or almost every other archiver. If you install Winrar then in
>Configuration select Cascading Menus, then uncheck the lowest 4 of these,
>i.e. the ones concerned with making as opposed to extracting, you can use
>Winrar indefinitely - to unzip via the handy context menu and never be
>nagged to register! Even if you stick with Compressed Folders to create
>archives, Winrar to unzip them is far superior and really well worth
>installing.
>
> Meanwhile Winrar is better than Winzip and Compressed Folders, for a
> superior compression algorithm. Of course, if you've registered either
> Winzip or Winrar you can create self-extractors too.
>
> Funny though - there are things that once known, the cat is out of the
> bag. Winzip's corrected now, but from the version for Win 3.x up to Winzip
> 8.1 you can register it to 'x' with the code '00020000'. You know, once
> someone tells you that, you can't forget it if you try! ;-) 8.1 was
> perfectly good, of course, and you can doubtless find it still (though I
> dumped my copy along with my NT4.0 stuff recently). Post Winzip 8.1 you
> get the long-awaited command line add-on, so getting Winzip beyond 30 days
> without nag screens, for free, by using 8.1 has it's disadvantages. And if
> you don't really want self extractor or command line options, Compressed
> Folders to zip and Winrar to unzip are a pretty good combo anyway, and
> what I'd recommend.
>
> Hey, Mart! If you want to continue investigating Vista without actually
> paying a farthing for it, I can't see what Vista has that can't be
> configured in the Server 2008 beta that is valid until next April! Aero is
> growing on me. I could end up thinking it's bubblicious! And you can turn
> the awful UAC off easily. Hard finding AV for it though, free or paid.
> Obviously as a server it is expected to be behind a router rather than
> software. And Windows Defender is part of the program (though SR isn't!) -
> not that I'm filled to overflowing with confidence at that! I was going
> with a Kaspersky beta -I trust it to essentially work, but it wouldn't
> update as the key had expired (I downloaded it last night). Such are the
> trials of beta testing, eh? Better try again, I suppose. Or go to bed.
>
> Had a wash tonight! With half a bucket of water! By god it was fine! Back
> to wet wipes for the rest of the week though. Thankfully they refilled the
> nearest bowser tonight - there has been considerable doubt that they were
> ever going to get round to it.
>
> Well, guess I'll get down the garden before bed! Ironically around here
> when I was a kid is the only place I was familiar with outside toilets
> (and to demonstrate how weird nostalgia is I actually miss them!). Today
> there are no walls though. It is an open plan outside lav.
>
> Shane
>
>
>
>
> "Mart" <mart(NoSpam)@nospam.nospam> wrote in message
> news:uqR3ix7zHHA.3564@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>> Not too sure why you particularly need "WinZip". Are you aware that WinMe
>> has its own inbuilt version which allows you both 'zip' and 'unzip' files
>> and folders?
>>
>> If your installation of WinMe doesn't seem to offer that facility, it may
>> have never been enabled therefore you may need to enable it.
>>
>> Control Panel | Add/Remove Programs / Windows Setup tab.
>> Scroll for System Tools and click 'Details', then under 'Components:',
>> Scroll for 'Compressed Folders' - Check the tick box to enable it.
>>
>> Mart
>>
>>
>> "Charlie" <Charlie@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:A270570B-3A93-4B31-AEAB-52994F58C8D8@microsoft.com...
>>> My old version of WinZip was acting up,so I deleted it.Have tried to
>>> download
>>> a newer version from several sites but get the message,"A device
>>> attached to
>>> the System is not functioning".
>>> I am using Win ME and am guessing that is the problem.Anyone know where
>>> I
>>> can download a version compatable with Win ME??
>>> Thanks for any help...
>>> Charlie R.
>>
>>
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