Miscellaneous (Configuration)

Select the Miscellaneous tab from the Configuration Dialog Box to control these options:

Start-up

• Next time start with the Wizard interface - Whether WinZip® should use the Wizard interface the next time it is started.
• Automatically show the Open Archive dialog box - Whether WinZip should automatically show the Open Archive dialog box when you start WinZip.

Show Add dialog when dropping files on:

• An archive in Explorer - Controls whether or not a dialog is displayed when you drop files on an archive in Explorer. If checked, WinZip displays an Add dialog, which allows you to specify various options to be used during the archiving process. If not checked, the files are simply added to the archive and no dialog is displayed.
• An open WinZip window - Controls whether or not a dialog is displayed when you drop files from Explorer on a WinZip window. If checked, WinZip displays an Add dialog, which allows you to specify various options to be used during the archiving process. If not checked, the files are simply added to the open archive and no dialog is displayed. Note: if no archive is open, WinZip must display the dialog even if this checkbox is not checked because you will need to use it to specify an archive name.

Other

• Windows Explorer-style Extract dialog box - This feature determines whether the Extract dialog box contains a tree view control or the Windows 3.1 style folder control.
• TAR file smart CR/LF conversion - When selected, this option determines if "smart" CR/LF conversion should be performed when extracting from TAR files. CR/LF is short for Carriage Return/Line Feed, the standard end of line indicator. This option can be useful when a TAR file contains text files created on a Unix or Macintosh machine. Unix text files usually contain lines ending in Line Feed characters only, and Macintosh text files usually contain lines ending in a Carriage Return character. The standard Windows Notepad program and many other Windows programs require a Carriage Return and Line Feed at the end of each line. When the TAR File smart CR/LF conversion option is in effect, WinZip determines whether to perform CR/LF conversion f le inside a TAR file by looking at the first 80 characters in each file. If the file is a text file then single LF and CR characters are converted to CR/LF pairs so the file can be viewed by Notepad and other Windows viewers. Files are considered text when the first 80 bytes contain only characters with ASCII values between 0x20 and 0x7f, carriage returns, line feeds, form feeds, tabs, and other alphanumeric characters (as determined by the Windows IsCharAlphaNumeric API).
• Always have WinZip on top - When checked, WinZip is assigned the "always on top" attribute, so that it is not overlaid by normal windows.
• Beep after long archive operations - WinZip will beep after archive operations that take more than one second to complete when this option is chosen.
• Smart DOC file handling - "Smart DOC Handling" is enabled when selected. This feature is described in the section titled Double Clicking.
• Use Recycle Bin for move operations - When checked, if you select the Move (and replace) files action in the Add dialog box, WinZip will put files in the Recycle Bin instead of deleting them.
• Prompt when View button is pushed - Unchecking this option will bypass the View dialog.
• Desktop theme/screen saver installer - When checked, the Desktop Theme Installer and the Screen Saver Installer are enabled. When unchecked, WinZip treats Zip files containing desktop themes or screen savers as normal Zip files.
• Show comments when opening Zip files - When checked, WinZip will automatically display the Zip comment when you open a Zip file that contains a comment.
• Display status dialog for long operations - When checked, WinZip displays an animated progress dialog during lengthy archive operations. The dialog allows you to minimize WinZip while the operation is in progress or to cancel the operation.
• Number of files in recent file list - Sets the number of files that appear in the list of recently used files in the File menu. You can set this to any number from 1 to 9.
• Restore all caution messages - Click this button to restore all caution dialogs that you have turned off (a caution dialog is "turned off" by checking its "Do not display this dialog in the future" checkbox).

Related Topics (other Configuration tabs):

View   Toolbar   Folders   System   Explorer Enhancements   Program Locations