gufus said:
Try turning off HDD indexing.
Wouldn't it be the exact opposite ?
Maybe the system becomes "curious" about ZIP files if they aren't indexed.
If a file is indexed, and the indexer can tell via the modification date
that nothing is changed, then it shouldn't have to look inside. (Only
an AV tool might be curious about content.)
On my Win7 laptop, indexing was not set up by default, and
I turned it on myself, and redefined what to index. I also
removed the backoff feature, so when it wants to index, the
indexing runs "full tilt" (won't pause on user input). To index my
relatively empty laptop from scratch takes three hours... because the
stupid thing won't pay attention to the setting that says *not* to
index file content (for keyword searches). If I notice it indexing
from scratch (the index has been reset), I walk away and come back
in three hours.
If ZIPs are a problem, and the file name are descriptive enough to
put them back later, maybe they can simply be moved to another
partition. If they're an actual part of some install, then you have
to leave them. But if they just contain a copy of the package to
install, you could store them elsewhere.
If a ZIP is big enough, it can actually cause problems for some tools.
For example, if you download the source tarball for Firefox or
Seamonkey or Thunderbird, there are so many files inside, some
AV scanners will die while attempting to scan them. That's not
supposed to happen. I now move tarballs over to my "junk storage area"
to keep them out of trouble and off the system disk.
Paul
