I posted that Windows XP Constructive Criticism post a while back noting some issues I have had with XP, now things are really starting to tick me off.

The ZIP support is really bothering me. I conducted a search for a file [I dislike the new search feature, too many questions], and XP insisted on searching through all my ZIPS in addition to the hard disk. While it was searching through the ZIPs CPU Usage jumps to 100%. Couldn't multitask at all, then when I tried to cancel the search, Explorer.exe crashed on me. This has happened on more than 1 occassion.

Everything is so sluggish now on XP. Thinking of going back to 2K until a Service Pack is issued for XP.

But my main question is how to REALLY get rid of integrated ZIP support. I tried this trick here:

http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/article03-202

But its results are flaky. I had to reenable ZIP support in Winrar after doing this. Seems to have an opposite effect.

I'm using Winzip 8.0, and it seems to be doing just fine.

Do you use any other archivers besides WinZIP? I dumped WinZIP long ago, for Winrar because I like the RAR format. Maybe I'll try WinZip and associate it for ZIPS only.