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Information Technology
Recently I lost the ability to expand zip files as compressed folders in Vista. a quick search of the web and I found this:
- At the start prompt enter “cmd /c assoc .zip=CompressedFolder”
- If necessary, Open regedit, navigate to the above path and delete the UserChoice node
[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.zip\UserChoice]- Restart Windows
remember editing the registry can be dangerous, so always backup first or create a restore point.
One of my clients has just been hit by this phishing virus, purporting to be a UPS Message – beware
Trojan disguised as UPS delivery note
Joy Persaud July 16, 2008
Panda Security is warning email recipients that a series of messages purporting to come from package delivery company UPS may in fact harbour the Agent.JEN trojan.
One option I find quite useful is to use the right click SendTo option to edit a file in Notepad, to do this you add a shortcut to notepad.exe in the SendTo folder in explorer.
To find your SendTo folder tyoe the following in the address bar of Windows Explorer
%APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo
then right click and add a shortcut to c:\windows\notepad.exe
from http://blogs.msdn.com/tims/archive/2006/09/18/windows-vista-secret-1-open-command-prompt-here.aspx
Right-click on any folder on your Windows Vista machine while holding down the shift key. You’ll see an extra context-sensitive menu item there: Open Command Prompt here. Just click on this menu and a command window will open with the current working directory set to the folder’s actual location.