UNZIP in Windows XP slow.

ral-clan · Post by **ral-clan** » Sun Feb 15, 2009 3:22 pm

Hi! I've only been a Windows XP user since the summer. I've noticed that when extracting files from a ZIP file in windows its very slow. I mean clicking on a ZIP file to open it, then dragging the file, or root directory out to somewhere else on one's hard drive. If the ZIP file has a lot of subdirectories & files, it can take five or six minute. It works, but it's quite slow.

On my old Amiga, extracting ZIP archives through a CLI was very fast - so I was a little surprised.

Has anyone else experienced this?

Boray · Post by **Boray** » Sun Feb 15, 2009 4:23 pm

Maybe it's faster to right click the zip file and select "Extract all"? That's what I usually do...

AmiDog · Post by **AmiDog** » Mon Feb 16, 2009 6:05 am

The builtin zip-extractor in Windows has to be the slowest implementation of the algorithm ever. I wouldn't be surprised if the VIC-20 could do it faster... Just install WinRAR (or similar).

Pedro Lambrini · Post by **Pedro Lambrini** » Mon Feb 16, 2009 4:08 pm

I'd go with 7-Zip - it's free so nagging messages and it's fast and versatile.

Boray · Post by **Boray** » Mon Feb 16, 2009 4:46 pm

I have never experienced it as slow, but I've never used XP...