I was using my family’s computer on the weekend and for some reason, .zip files weren’t working how they should. It seems someone had set them to open with Internet Explorer…
I found this out when I clicked on a .zip file and IE went into a recursion-of-death loop. An IE window showed on the screen briefly, only to go away. Then it happened again. In fact, apart from a few moments of unexplainable IE hangs, it just sat there creating a window and removing it again over and over. I guess IE had decided it couldn’t handle .zip files and was passing the file to Explorer which consulted the associations and gave the file back to IE.
I installed 7-zip and told it to take over the associations but the FAIL didn’t end there. I actually had to log out and back in again to stop IE’s seizure-inducing window flashing.
