How to stop .zip folders appearing in folder pane?

[degreseven]

Hello,

I was wondering if there is a way to prevent explorer from listing .zip folders in the folder pane when you expand the folder it is in. For example, if i have a folder called "parent" and inside it i have folders "folder1" and " folder2"" and zipped folders called "zip1" and "zip2" my folders pane looks like ...

-parent
     +folder1
     +folder2
     +zip1
      zip2

This gets very annoying in my "downloads" folder because when i expand it the folders pane is several pages long. I would like to display the zipped folders as FILES in the parent folder. How can i do this? thanks a lot

[durex]

Associate .zip with anything other than Windows 'Compressed (zipped) folders'.... i.e.WinRAR or WinZip.

[LaptoniC]

Regsvr32.exe /u zipfldr.dll

[degreseven]

thanks a lot