On Fri, 10 Aug 2012 03:47:12 +1000, Jim Thompson
wrote:

On Thu, 09 Aug 2012 10:43:07 -0700, Jeff Liebermann
wrote:

On Thu, 09 Aug 2012 10:34:10 -0700, Jim Thompson
wrote:

Another annoyance...

By "annoyance", do you mean the problem or your question?

Bringing up new PC (XP Pro), Windows Explorer wants to show zip-files
as if they were folders :-(

How do I turn that off?

That's the default icon for a compressed archive. Windoze has a
miserable builtin zip/unzip program that handles zip files for you.
However, if you install a real zip/unzip program, such as 7zip:
http://www.7-zip.org
not only will the icon change to something recognizable as a zip file,
but you'll be able to zip and unzip a much wider assortment of
compressed archives.

I have both WinZIP and WinRAR installed. I want the icon to go away
;-)

...Jim Thompson

You need to accociate zip files with Win Zip. IIRC there is an options tab
that allows you to select this in WinZip (or it can be selected in
installation and should be selected by a default install).

If you can't find an option to select then unistall Win Zip and then do a
default install
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