Speed up your search on WinXP

October 1, 2008 by admin

When I’m downloading files I save them to folder c:\download. This already contains several hundred of files, mostly ZIP. The side effect of this is when you perform search over directory with big number of zipped archives it will slow down entire search process because windows is looking into zipped files. I usually just search for files that aren’t included in those zipped files so this functionality is unnecessary for me.

What you can do ?

Zip functionality in WinXp is handled by zipfldr.dll . This is dynamic link library located in your windows system32 folder. So you just have to unregister it from your system. How to ?

  1. Click your “Start” button
  2. Click “Run” from menu
  3. Enter regsvr32 c:\winnt\\system32\zipfldr.dll /u or regsvr32 c:\windows\\system32\zipfldr.dll /u (The path depends on your windows installation)
  4. Press “OK”
run

Run dialog

If you typed it correctly windows will unregister this DLL from your system and will inform you about this in message box.

Message box

Now.. if you want to enable ZIP support you’ll have to do it same way just type:

regsvr32 c:\winnt\\system32\zipfldr.dll or regsvr32 c:\windows\\system32\zipfldr.dll
(Again: The path depends on your windows installation !)

Question:

Do you want me to create small utility that will do that for you automatically ? If so leave comment.

Category: Windows

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11 Comments »

  • daniel gansah said:

    really great job.

    # 1 October 2008 at 2:20 pm
  • jb said:

    nice

    # 1 October 2008 at 2:59 pm
  • rama said:

    Nice softwares

    # 3 October 2008 at 11:45 am
  • himan said:

    best

    # 8 October 2008 at 3:52 pm
  • dg said:

    good

    # 9 October 2008 at 12:55 pm
  • admin (author) said:

    Thank you for you comments guys

    # 9 October 2008 at 2:14 pm
  • mahin said:

    nice

    # 24 October 2008 at 6:43 pm
  • vivek kumar said:

    i am trying to unregister zipfldr.dll .but it shows that the specified module could not be found.i have window xp os.please let me know what is the problem.i will greatfull to u for this…

    # 26 October 2008 at 2:59 pm
  • admin (author) said:

    Please search for zipfldr.dll on your system. Then if search will find this file, use its path when you unregister it.

    # 26 October 2008 at 5:52 pm
  • JAY said:

    such a great job man…….
    keep it up……….

    # 26 October 2008 at 7:29 pm
  • Bogdan said:

    Best,best,best…!

    # 3 November 2008 at 9:29 am