re: Question about 'How do I turn off Compressed Folders (built-in support for ZIP files) in Windows Vista and XP?' Tuesday, July 20, 2010 at 4:04 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Tom (376 messages posted) You're saying ''laptop is 1 year old and desktop has a brand new OS''. Did the problem occur on both right as you started using them ? or later ? and maybe not at the same time ? Maybe you surfed with both to the same web sites (at least to some) and both caught the same virus / malware.   Written in response to: Question about 'How do I turn off Compressed Folders (built-in support for ZIP files) in Windows Vista and XP?' (H Lane: Tuesday, July 20, 2010 at 7:00 am) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] Question about 'How do I turn off Compressed Folders (built-in support for ZIP files) in Windows Vista and XP?' (H Lane: Tue, Jul 20, 2010, 7:00 am) re: Question about 'How do I turn off Compressed Folders (built-in support for ZIP files) in Windows Vista and XP?' (Tom: Tue, Jul 20, 2010, 4:04 pm) re: Question about 'How do I turn off Compressed Folders (built-in support for ZIP files) in Windows Vista and XP?' (AndyP: Wed, Jul 21, 2010, 8:28 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum