"Compress to Zip file" no longer working. How do I fix it?

dbookbinder · Apr 30, 2024

antspants said:
I do have one last suggestion if you haven’t tried it already;

- Uninstall 7-zip:

Use Revo uninstaller Free so you can remove all traces of 7-zip in the registry and File Explorer, tell it to "scan for leftovers"
- Run the default reg file in brinks tutorial, reboot and check again.

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Uninstalled 7-zip with Revo Uninstaller, scanned with Advanced, and removed all traces of 7-zip. Rebooted, ran Brink's .zip reg file, tested. No change. So, apparently there is some other interaction, or this is a bug that only affects some hardware, or there is some setting somewhere that might be corrected by a repair install, or ...

I'm just going to live without it and (maybe) occasionally do a search to see if someone has solved this admittedly minor issue.

Thanks for your help.

bobkn · Apr 30, 2024

You may not want to do it this way, but in my installation, I can right click a file, and "send to" to create a Zipped archive of it.

It can also be done using 7Zip.

dbookbinder · Apr 30, 2024

bobkn said:
You may not want to do it this way, but in my installation, I can right click a file, and "send to" to create a Zipped archive of it.

It can also be done using 7Zip.

Thanks. I have alternative ways to create Zip files, including the one you mention and using 7-Zip. The built-in method, when it works, is the quickest and simplest, so I was trying to get it to work as designed, but it's becoming a time sink and is probably not worth the time it would take to fix it.

antspants · Apr 30, 2024

dbookbinder said:
Uninstalled 7-zip with Revo Uninstaller, scanned with Advanced, and removed all traces of 7-zip. Rebooted, ran Brink's .zip reg file, tested. No change. So, apparently there is some other interaction, or this is a bug that only affects some hardware, or there is some setting somewhere that might be corrected by a repair install, or ...

I'm just going to live without it and (maybe) occasionally do a search to see if someone has solved this admittedly minor issue.

Thanks for your help.

That’s disappointing. I had high hopes.

I proffer WinRAR for RAR and ZIP. This is all achievable in WinRAR. I use 7-Zip as well though, for other archives and occasionally multiple files. Regardless, whatever I use, it still involves a right click.

dbookbinder · Apr 30, 2024

antspants said:
That’s disappointing. I had high hopes.

I proffer WinRAR for RAR and ZIP. This is all achievable in WinRAR. I use 7-Zip as well though, for other archives and occasionally multiple files. Regardless, whatever I use, it still involves a right click.

In the past, I've used WinRAR and WinZIP, but 7-Zip is free and seems to do anything I need to do with archives. In any case, it's nice to have alternatives.