-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Giveaway of the Day - Driver Magician 3.28

Bonnie,
    Unfortunately, it sounds like WinZip has managed to isolate you from the 
Activate.exe file in this instance.  By default, WinZip's Wizard interface 
is designed to automatically present you with any file it finds named 
Install.exe, Setup.exe or something similar.  Since Activate.exe is not on 
this list of possible installation files, you were basically cheated from 
seeing it.  It is for this reason that I never run WinZip in Wizard mode.  I 
want/need to see all of my options.

    The only way around this is to change the way WinZip handles compressed 
files that include one of the filenames that ARE on its list.  Of course, 
this means that you will need to learn another (almost too easy) way of 
using WinZip.  If you're game for such an adventure, instructions are 
included below.  I am currently using version 10.0, so my directions are 
based on that.  If you have a different version, the specifics should be 
extremely similar, if not identical.   :O)


Since you use a specific folder (and not your desktop) as a catch-all for 
the stuff you download (an excellent approach, I might add), you should have 
a shortcut either on your desktop or in your QuickLaunch bar that you can 
use to open it quickly.  You may have one already, but it would be foolish 
of me to assume something like that.

Once you open up your downloads folder and locate the Zip file, use your 
Right mouse button to grab and drag the file just a short distance to the 
right.  When you let go of the mouse button, you will be presented with a 
context menu that includes actions you can take using WinZip.  Choose the 
one that says something to the effect of "Extract to folder 
D:\Downloads\filename".  As an example, if your downloads folder is located 
just inside the D: drive (D:\Downloads) and the file's name is stuff.zip, 
the line will say "Extract to folder D:\Downloads\stuff".  After clicking on 
that line in the menu, a new folder will be created using the name of the 
file as the name of the new folder.  You can now enter that folder and see 
ALL of the files that were included in the compressed file.  If the 
compressed file was made from folders and subfolders, you will also get to 
see the exact nestling of these folders the way the creator intended them to 
be.  Most importantly, you will not be shielded from seeing anything that 
you need to see, such as an Activate.exe file or the very important 
Readme.txt type files that are included with most of these sorts of 
downloads.

I should also mention that the WinZip program interface will not open when 
you follow this method of getting to the files inside a Zip file.

Peace,
G

http://tinyurl.com/ypbuue

"The only dumb questions are the ones we fail to ask!"

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bonnie" <bbruhn@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 10:45 PM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Giveaway of the Day - Driver Magician 3.28


> GMan,
> These are the steps I always use.
> Download from web site to a download file on my D partition
> Go to where it is and click the zip file and winzip opens and I follow the
> winzip steps.
> I have it go into my D drive program file.
> I go through the install program and when it shows the popup window with 
> the
> reg. numbers and name I copy and paste to an open note pad file.
> Then when it asks for the reg name and number I cope and paste it in (have
> done this about 7 times to other giveaways without problem)
>
> The install goes to a web page on what to do next and I close it out
> I think a window comes up that says it is acutivated or registered (I 
> forget
> where in the steps). This time I never got the window with the 
> registration
> numbers
> Bonnie
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "GMan" <gman.pctt@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 7:03 PM
> Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Giveaway of the Day - Driver Magician 3.28
>
>
>> Bonnie,
>>    Can you describe the way you uncompressed the "DriverMagician.zip" 
>> file
>> that you downloaded?  I'm hoping it will shed some light on why your
>> experience was different from mine.
>>
>> Peace,
>> G
>>
>> http://tinyurl.com/ypbuue
>>
>> "The only dumb questions are the ones we fail to ask!"
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Bonnie" <bbruhn@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 7:07 PM
>> Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Giveaway of the Day - Driver Magician 3.28
>>
>>
>>> Judith,
>>> This is how I have always downloaded and installed the giveaaway of the
>>> day.
>>> It just did not have the  popup box that it normaly has that gave me the
>>> name GiveAwayOfTheDay and a registration number. So I redid the install
>>> and
>>> also when that did not work I download again and installed as still no
>>> pop
>>> up
>>> Bonnie
>>
>>
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