Recent content by towlerg

I've got KB5010386 pending, I wonder what new hell that will bring with it.

Just to be sure to be sure I checked and both the keys were back. Rebooted and voila, ta da, zips open in Winrar. No idea except perhaps ms snuck in an update the reintroduced the tabs. Will report back after a few reboots. I note that there a several references to these two keys. I see what...

@erpster4 I was aware of the ownership issues around these keys, I used the procedure described here the info for Win7 which also worked on Win10. Sorry I should have posted that info.

@Ghot, I deleted both of the keys mentioned but to no avail.

Hi, thanks for the welcome. WinRar is already set to be the default app for file extension .zip This functionality has been around since XP. see here

I use RAR for both .zip and .rar. I dislike the way windows explorer (and 3 party replacements) handle a double left click on .zip (.rar is ok) ie. use in-built function to decompress the file. In previous versions of windows it has been possible through a reg hack to disable this function. I've...