Slow browsing in Explorer

Sometimes you'll find that browsing through explorer can get really slow.  Especially on network drives.  One reason may be that Explorer is trying to expand zip files to get you the list of files in there.  In Vista you'll recognize this by the magnifying glass circling the folder in the tree view on the left of an Explorer window.  Here's an article that shows an easy way to disable the zip folder expansion:

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/prevent-explorer-from-freezing-with-large-zip-files-on-vista/

Make sure that you do have a zip file manager.  I recommend 7-zip for it's speed and file format flexibility:
http://www.7-zip.org/

The other one I use is ZipGenius.  There are a few things I particularly like with ZipGenius:

• Command line interface is pretty good
• Ability to create self-extracting archives through command line.  Great for automating tasks or making them repeatable
• The ability to fix broken zip files and extract usable files from them!

You'll find ZipGenius at: 

http://www.zipgenius.it/ or on Cnet's Download.com