Friday, August 6, 2010

Outlook doesn't display zip files, How to Fix?

Outlook problems could be of various types. Sometimes outlook does not display the Zip file. It causes a big problem as we send important documents as attachments. You have got an important mail but not able to open that. Certainly, it’s very annoying. But it’s very easy to resolve the problem. You can also talk to a computer help provider to resolute this outlook problem.

In this article we have discussed about the steps which will help you to resolve ‘outlook doesn’t display zip files’ issue and before we do so we need to know why it happens. When we send an attachment, outlook sees this folder as a folder while windows operating system sees these folder as an ordinary file and folder. And the problem occurs.

To resolve this problem, you need to restart outlook and compressed folders also need to be disabled. You can do that from the start option type the command:

a) regsvr32 /u zipfldr.dll
regsvr32 /u cabview.dll

To restore the feature again follow the command

b) regsvr32 zipfldr.dll
regsvr32 cabview.dll

This will help you to resolve the issue. The process certainly is very simple and easy to follow.

1 comment:

  1. I have a lot of archives on my PC. But once some of them was crashed on unknown reason. Luckily for me a friend offered me a nice utility, which solved out my issues for seconds - restore zip files.

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