Comments on: Windows Vista has problems with large zip files

By: Maya

Maya — Wed, 20 May 2009 05:28:25 +0000

Why is the solution to disable VIsta zip handling?

Why doesn’t Microsoft either fix the major ZIP bug in Vista, or just plain remove the functionality altogether.

I only purchased a Vista laptop recently, and have windows updated enabled, so you’d think something as major as this would have been sorted long ago alreay.

This bug has cost me hours of labour already (mine didn’t hang, it just told me it was unzipping, tok forever, then when I starting working I noticed files here and there hadn’t updated…)

C’mon MS, you can write an entire operating system, but you can’t get a simple zip uility right… oh, wait..

By: me

me — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:03:23 +0000

This “bug” has been in Windows since XP. It’s there because MS persist to try and take over functionality used by the likes of WinZip and WinRar.

Unfortunately, the level of working of “MS Zip” (or whatever it is called), is actually pretty low, even to that extent that Windows would be better, without this buggy behaviour.

If you want to lock up your computer, do something with large zipfiles. It’s not even a 64-bit issue or so, it’s just MS not knowing how to handle reading of Zipfiles.

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 15:37:21 +0000

Have just bought a new HP Slimline (AMD Athlon 64 S3535.uk) running on Windows Vista Home Premium, which crashes and re-starts windows when I try to unzip files through windows. Anyone else had this problem?

By: I have that problem too...

I have that problem too... — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:35:46 +0000

My other computer was dying so I zipped the whole C: drive into one zip file with 4gb spliting, now I cant open the 23gb zip file in vista, I get errors :( with winzip pro

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By: Cart Hansel

Cart Hansel — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 00:34:52 +0000

I have zip files of 1-3 MB and when I try to open them windows goes crazy and the only way I can use my computer is to restart it. Are these considered large files. I, of course, have Windows Vista. Is this a Vista problem with zip files.

Thank you,

Carl Hansel

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By: Martin

Martin — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 07:24:31 +0000

That’s a bug, not sure what is causing it though..

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By: Alter Falter!

Alter Falter! — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 13:24:40 +0000

Moin Martin,schreibst du dir jetzt auch schon deine eigenen Kommentare? ;-)

By: Windows Vista News

Windows Vista News — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 12:59:23 +0000

Windows Vista has problems with large zip files

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