was first introduced in Windows XP.

Limitations of the feature

• No AES Encryption⁽¹⁾
• No password support⁽¹⁾
• No API support⁽¹⁾
• Does not work well with Offline Offline Folders⁽⁴⁾
  With Offline Folders, if the folder is offline that you are creating the .Zip in, you’ll get an error.
• Does not use the Windows Shell Icon Handler⁽²⁾

Trivia
Written by David Plummer⁽³⁾

(1) Why is Windows Compressed Folders (Zip folders) support stuck at the turn of the century?

(2) Why don’t per-item custom icons work when I open a Zip file or some other virtual folder?

(3) I wrote Task Manager and I just remembered something…
(4) Customer reported this to me, the workaround was to install 7-Zip.

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