Windows/IE .zip recursion FAIL December 14, 2009
Posted by a1291762 in : Uncategorized , trackbackI 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.
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