How to read the contents of a .zip file with VBScript without actually extracting the files?

Question

I have a .zip file that starts with a parent directory. I need to read that dir from the file then search my HD to see if that dir name already exists. If it exists, I then

Answer 1

I'm not sure if it is possible to read the contents of a zip without extracting it.

If you are just trying to avoid a time consuming copy operation on the data you could try unzipping to a temp directory and then using a "move" function. Move is usually less time consuming than copy as it doesn't actually re-write the data on the disk. It just updates the file system to point at where the data is.