Winzip and encryption on XP

#1 (**permalink**) 11-03-2006, 01:37 AM

Is native Windows XP able to unzip archive files which I have created
using WINZIP and encrypted using the relatively weak "Standard Zip 2.0
encryption" option.

If not then does native Windows XP have any capability for Winzip files?

#2 (**permalink**) 11-03-2006, 02:21 AM

Andy,

Windows XP can natively create ZIP archives as well as extract files from a
ZIP archive created by any other zip utility like WinZip or WinRAR.

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"Andy" <nomail@nomail.com> wrote in message
news:Xns987010773463574C1H4@127.0.0.1...
> Is native Windows XP able to unzip archive files which I have created
> using WINZIP and encrypted using the relatively weak "Standard Zip 2.0
> encryption" option.
>
> If not then does native Windows XP have any capability for Winzip files?

#3 (**permalink**) 11-03-2006, 04:53 PM

As the above said, it's able to do any .zip file, but not .rar, .7z, or
any other program-specific file end.
Andy wrote:
> Is native Windows XP able to unzip archive files which I have created
> using WINZIP and encrypted using the relatively weak "Standard Zip 2.0
> encryption" option.
>
> If not then does native Windows XP have any capability for Winzip files?

#4 (**permalink**) 11-08-2006, 08:54 PM

Andy <nomail@nomail.com> wrote in news:Xns987010773463574C1H4@127.0.0.1:

> Is native Windows XP able to unzip archive files which I have created
> using WINZIP and encrypted using the relatively weak "Standard Zip 2.0
> encryption" option.
>
> If not then does native Windows XP have any capability for Winzip files?

It cannot open WinZIP's encryption available since ver. 9.0