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Hello,

I'd like to disable Windows Zip Functionality as rumour suggest it 'speeds up' the copying/moving of zip-files within Windows.

During cmdlines.txt I remove the below keys:

[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.zip\CompressedFolder]
[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{E88DCCE0-B7B3-11d1-A9F0-00AA0060FA31}]
[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CompressedFolder]

However, when Windows loads and I run regedit.exe the above keys still exist and Windows Zip Functionality works as expected. Even when I delete the above keys manually, Windows Zip Functionality is not effected.

Can anyone offer me a solution please?

I have 7-Zip Installed and no longer require Window's built-in functionality, I would like all references to it removed from my system without the use of nLite.

laze.

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Hello,

It appears the registry tweak was working to begin with. The reason Zip Functionality returned was 7-Zip had no file assocation to *.zip files, If I created a dummy *.zip file the *.dll would re-register itself and Windows Zip Functionality would return.

laze.

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If I created a dummy *.zip file the *.dll would re-register itself and Windows Zip Functionality would return.

Yeah sorry should have mentioned that.

You need to immediately assign the .ZIP extention to 7ZIP (or alternate) to stop it re-registering that DLL.

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