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@lugran, Yes! This worked for me... I'd been banging my head against the proverbial brick-wall, following the instructions on other threads, but none of them worked. Thanks again, Mike.

Thanks for the reply, but tried both of those (all archives are already associated with 7Zip anyway), but no difference...

I still have this issue... I have 7Zip installed and all archives are associated with 7Zip, however archives are still showing as folders in the Windows Explorer navigation-pane. Any other workarounds? Mike.

These were all Win 10 updates, which were still showing once I'd upgraded to Win 11. As suggested, I clicked "Retry All" and after about 20 minutes it seemed to 'forget' those updates and show me only a couple of pending Win 11 ones. Cheers, Mike.

Gee, 30GB used with only Chrome installed? A clean install of Win 11 take up around 17GB. You need to do a disk cleanup, my friend... :-)

I've always been very frugal with my disk-space usage. My Win 10 system partitions were a mere 40GB (typically around 19GB used when OS and all apps installed), with one system having just 30GB - since the 'system disk' was a 32GB mSATA stick. I've just up upgrade all 4 of my systems to Win 11...

It took an age to refresh, but this did the trick. Many thanks! Mike.

Unfortunately this didn't work - didn't get past the "Updating Policy..." step...

Hi Chaps, This is a slightly annoying one... I have just upgraded one of my Windows 10 machines to Windows 11. All went well, until I went to "Settings>Windows Update", where I found there were three Win 10 updates showing, with an error status. (see below) I've tried shutting down the...

According to CPU-Z, my processor (i7 4790s) supports SSE 4.2, so I should be okay...

Thanks for all of the useful comments and suggestions - I wasn't aware that the next iteration of Win 11 would bugger things up for me... I've used Linux Mint (xfce) for a several years now and only a few things have kept it from being my 'daily driver'. My girls use macbooks for school and...

Still no luck on getting this sorted. One additional annoyance is that most of my archives are password-protected, so I can't even click on them in the navigation-pane to get them to open. There must be a registry fix to get around the issue that KB5034204 or KB5034123 has introduced?

Hi Chaps, I have three desktop systems and one laptop, all of which are technically not supported under Windows 11 (they only have TMP v1.2). I've actually recently installed the latest Windows 11 on two of the desktops and they both work well and received the usual updates. However, I'm...

@antspants - still behaves the same... But I've just discovered (after just updating another Win 11 machine that DIDN'T have this issue) that it's either KB5034204 or KB5034123 that has caused the problem... It is also now displaying archives as folders. Mike.

@Berton: I have a couple of registry tweaks to make Windows Explorer a bit more usable (as in more Windows 10-like!). My user folders (docs, downloads, music, pics, vids) are all located on a separate partition. Not sure what you mean by "..click the down arrow at left end of App to hide...