Joe, I'm not saying this would or would not be useful, I just found it with a search... http://www.bbcode-to-html.com/ Personally though, just because I like to do things the difficult way I'd probably throw copies of all the text files containing the bbcode into a folder and attempt to develop a script to convert them all in one go. I'm not saying I could do it, but I'd likely try. For instance, this rough beginning using "sed" works on the bbcode you posted above. It's missing a bunch of tags, even the regular [URL] one, but maybe it wouldn't be that difficult to extend. Or maybe it would, I don't really know. sed -e 's/\[b\]/\<strong\>/gi' \ -e 's/\[\/b\]/\<\/strong\>/gi' \ -e 's/\[u\]/\<u\>/gi' \ -e 's/\[\/u\]/\<\/u\>/gi' \ -e 's/\[url=\([^]]*\)\]/\<a href="\1"\>/gi' \ -e 's/\[\/url\]/\<\/a\>/gi' \ -e 's/\[img\]/\<img src\=\"/gi' \ -e 's/\[\/img\]/"\>/gi' Running the bbcode you posted above through that script yields this HTML: Download Autoruns for Windows: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963902.aspx No installation required. Simply unzip <strong>Autoruns.zip</strong> file, and double click on <strong>autoruns.exe</strong> file to run the program. Go <strong>File>Save,</strong> and save it as <strong>AutoRuns.<u>txt</u></strong> file to desktop You must select <strong>Text</strong> from drop-down menu as a file type: <a href="http://s175.photobucket.com/user/ZEP516/media/p4436801_zps3defde9d.gif.html"><img src="http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w159/ZEP516/p4436801_zps3defde9d.gif"></a> Upload the file(s) here: http://www.sendspace.com/ Click on <strong>Browse</strong> button and navigate to the file you want to upload. Click on <strong>Upload button.</strong> Click on FIRST <strong>Copy Link</strong> button and paste the link in your next reply. Which when posted here gives: Download Autoruns for Windows: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963902.aspx No installation required. Simply unzip Autoruns.zip file, and double click on autoruns.exe file to run the program. Go File>Save, and save it as AutoRuns.txt file to desktop You must select Text from drop-down menu as a file type: Upload the file(s) here: http://www.sendspace.com/ Click on Browse button and navigate to the file you want to upload. Click on Upload button. Click on FIRST Copy Link button and paste the link in your next reply. The good thing about it is that once written, it would just as easily handle five hundred files as one. The bad thing is, I don't know "regular expressions", although I wouldn't mind learning. Actually, I did learn a wee bit just now. Thanks. :) Edit: line-spacing This post was edited by chuggerguy on Fri, Jan 24, 14 at 16:46

http://www.oldversion.com/ You may want to remove winzip and download and install again. The older versions worked forever, even if you didn't purchase. I use 7-zip, but usually for .rar files. Anyway, I see spybot and winzip listed at the link.

Forget all about Firefox and Internet Explorer for the time being because you aren't going to use them for this. Open Windows Explorer and find these rar files that you want to open. Then right click on the first one e.g. "yourfilename".rar. Point to 7-Zip in the drop down menu and click on "Extract to yourfilename". (I always use the same "folder name" as the "filename" so that I can easily see what has been extracted.) A new folder called "Yourfilename" is created in the same place that you are already looking so you don't have to search for it. Inside this new folder will be the files that were originally stored inside the rar file. Any quantity and type of file can be stored inside a rar file (they are just a convienient way of quickly sending lots of files in one go) e.g. bmp or jpg photos, an exe programme file, a doc Word file, etc. Once you have extracted the file just use it in the normal way - you may want to move it to a more convienient folder later e.g. My Photos. One other thing worth mentioning is to check the files with you antivirus programme before you run them in case the sender's computer was infected. Colin

I have just posted an old free version of WinRAR on Yousendit. It will remain available for 7 days. It was a special offer that they themselves gave away several years ago as a teaser to buy their latest version. For simplicity I have converted it into a self-extracting file that should unpack o.k. - if it doesn't let me know! Colin Here is a link that might be useful: Free WinRAR v3.5.1 on YouSendIt.com