In case you haven't heard, zip files are a cutting edge technology invented in the 80s to put compress multiple files into a single file. Windows XP comes with a "feature" that integrated zip file management into windows explorer.
However this morning I was zipping up a bunch of files in the background and then made the huge mistake of *gasp* attempting to extract files from a different zip archive at the same time. Take my word that readme.txt has taken much longer than 50 seconds already and there's no end in sight, considering the "time left" timer is going up. Maybe if windows used some of the 92% of my CPU that's idling it would have a chance at finishing this complicated operation before lunch time.
