Computer trouble

[giggleyroxas]

Well... I downloaded a free trial of BitZipper to Open one .rar file. When I was finished with it I uninstalled it and deleted it. Now, I can't open .zip files that I could open before.

I just need someone to help me figure out what I did to my computer. The .zip files that I could open, I can now not open because I uninstalled that program.

Was that supposed to happen?

 

[Agent007]

Where did you extract them to? Did you look for that directory? I'd say just download WinRar and call it a day.

WinRAR archiver, a powerful tool to process RAR and ZIP files

 

[giggleyroxas]

I don't to download anything, I want to know why files I could access before BitZipper I can not access now because I Uninstalled and deleted BitZipper.

 

[Zook]

you can't extract them b/c that's what the program was for. it can only do it's job if its installed. you should download WinRAR like Agent007 suggested. It's free and unlimited.

 

[Doctor Manhattan]

The above posters are wrong. The reason that you can't open them anymore is because when you installed bitzipper, during installation it changed .zip to open with bitzipper instead of the default windows unzipper.

read How to change or select which program starts when you double-click a file in Windows XP for how to fix this.

 

[Agent007]

Wouldn't installing WinRar default it though? WinRar should associate itself with that type of file, if he installed it that is.

 

[giggleyroxas]

you can't extract them b/c that's what the program was for. it can only do it's job if its installed. you should download WinRAR like Agent007 suggested. It's free and unlimited.

I thought you had to pay for WinRAR

Tycho, I used that guide but I don't know what program to use.

I forgot to mention that I can view .zips that are saved on my computer, but .zip files from the internet I can't just open them and look at the contents without saving them. My computer didn't do this before. Another thing, I have Vista, not XP

 

[RTP49]

use 7zip