What The? happened to WinZip functionality? This is a silly little post but something that annoyed me so I figured a few other readers might care. Now that XP has this cool new shell extension for generating ZIP folders, some of the features of WinZip appear to be obfuscated by this integrated Explorer experience. I was puzzled by the need to run the original WinZip classic experience just to create a password protected ZIP file, but I finally figured out that there actually is a way to do this within Explorer. Create a ZIP file, open it in a new Explorer window, from the File menu select Password Protect...que bueno!