Solved Remove "Extract All" tweak doesn't work on Windows 11

Spartan · Dec 31, 2021

I used this reg file but it's still there when I right click a .ZIP file. I don't want it since I have 7-ZIP installed. Any ideas?

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CompressedFolder\ShellEx\ContextMenuHandlers\{b8cdcb65-b1bf-4b42-9428-1dfdb7ee92af}]

Ghot · Dec 31, 2021

Spartan said:
I used this reg file but it's still there when I right click a .ZIP file. I don't want it since I have 7-ZIP installed. Any ideas?

What happens if you "associate" ALL compressed files (except .cab and ISO), with 7zip, in 7zip file manager?
Or maybe in Win 11 default programs?

I did that with 7zip on Win 10, and I don't see any... "extract all..." when I right click a .zip file.
I never tweaked anything to remove... "Extract All" from the right click menu.

Spartan · Dec 31, 2021

Ghot said:
What happens if you "associate" ALL compressed files with 7zip, in 7zip file manager?
Make sure you DON'T associate .cab and ISO files with 7zip.
Or in Win 11 default programs?

I did that with 7zip on Win 10, and I don't see any... "extract all..." when I right click a .zip file.

That's exactly what I did actually minus the .cab and .iso but it still shows up

idgat · Dec 31, 2021

Try one of the Nirsoft context menu editing programs?

Also, when you associated the extensions, did you just use 7Zip's association function, or did you go into Windows 11 Apps settings and manually associate the .zip extension? Windows 11 has become a little less friendly in allowing other programs to set/change the default extension association ....

Ghot · Dec 31, 2021

Spartan said:
That's exactly what I did actually minus the .cab and .iso but it still shows up

I also did this... to get the Win 10 context menus, back...

Disable "Show more options" context menu in Windows 11 Tutorial

This tutorial will show you how to enable or disable having to click on "Show more options" to see the full context menu for your account or all users in Windows 11. When you right click on an item in Windows 11, you will see a new modern condensed context menu with Show more options...

www.elevenforum.com

...brb, I'm gonna get on Windows 11.

Ah well... I do have an "extract all..." on the Win 11 right click menu.

And... in "Choose defaults by file type", I have .zip set to be opened by 7zip.

idgat · Dec 31, 2021

Ghot said:
Ah well... I do have an "extract all..." on the Win 11 right click menu.

And... in "Choose defaults by file type", I have .zip set to be opened by 7zip.

Does "Extract all" open with 7Zip or Windows (un)zip? It may be that you can't get rid of it, it's just there for whatever zip program is used..

Ghot · Dec 31, 2021

idgat said:
Does "Extract all" open with 7Zip or Windows (un)zip? It may be that you can't get rid of it, it's just there for whatever zip program is used..

seems to be with the Windows version.

Ghot · Dec 31, 2021

@Brink
@Spartan

Got it.

Winaero Tweaker > Context Menu > Remove Default Entries (list)

Put a checkmark in Extract All, and sign out and back in... and it's... gone!

"How it works" is the same instructions.

Remove Extract All from Context Menu in Windows 10

File Explorer shows the Extract All context menu command for ZIP files which you might want to disable. Here is how to remove it.

winaero.com

Lemme check what it actually did in the registry.
Well...whatever it did, in the registry, isn't what it says in "How it works".
This is my registry entry AFTER the Winaero tweak...

Besides no more Extract All... on .zip file right click menu... the only other change I see is that the icon for 7zip files has changed from the black and white icon to a yellow folder with a "7" on it.
The red dot shows what the 7zip icons used to look like., before this Winaero tweak.

I definitely used to have the "Extract All..." on the .zip file right click menu.
Now....

idgat · Dec 31, 2021

Ghot said:
Got it.

Winaero Tweaker > Context Menu > Remove Default Entries (list)

Put a checkmark in Extract All, and sign out and back in... and it's... gone!

Well done.

Score : Microsoft 7,347,987,741 settings blocked -vs- User 1 setting unblocked

Spartan · Dec 31, 2021

idgat said:
Try one of the Nirsoft context menu editing programs?

Also, when you associated the extensions, did you just use 7Zip's association function, or did you go into Windows 11 Apps settings and manually associate the .zip extension? Windows 11 has become a little less friendly in allowing other programs to set/change the default extension association ....

In the app settings, 7Zip isn't even listed but when I went to the associate by file type, it is handling all compressed files but the Extract All still shows

Spartan · Dec 31, 2021

Ghot said:
@Brink
@Spartan

Got it.

Winaero Tweaker > Context Menu > Remove Default Entries (list)

Put a checkmark in Extract All, and sign out and back in... and it's... gone!

View attachment 17355

"How it works" is the same instructions.

Remove Extract All from Context Menu in Windows 10

File Explorer shows the Extract All context menu command for ZIP files which you might want to disable. Here is how to remove it.

winaero.com

Lemme check what it actually did in the registry.
Well...whatever it did, in the registry, isn't what it says in "How it works".
This is my registry entry AFTER the Winaero tweak...

View attachment 17360

Besides no more Extract All... on .zip file right click menu... the only other change I see is that the icon for 7zip files has changed from the black and white icon to a yellow folder with a "7" on it.
The red dot shows what the 7zip icons used to look like., before this Winaero tweak.

View attachment 17354

I definitely used to have the "Extract All..." on the .zip file right click menu.
Now....

View attachment 17358

Right, that worked, I wonder what it did differently than the reg tweak I posted above.

Ghot · Dec 31, 2021

Spartan said:
Right, that worked, I wonder what it did differently than the reg tweak I posted above.

I had that thought also, then I just decided... it doesn't matter... it worked.

idgat · Jan 1, 2022

LOL Anyone catch the irony there .... Winaero Tweaker is downloaded as a zip file :zany:

Spartan · Jan 1, 2022

idgat said:
LOL Anyone catch the irony there .... Winaero Tweaker is downloaded as a zip file

but then you have to extract it, run the EXE then choose portable if you don't want to install it! so why the freakin ZIP file if itS not portable to start off with! Weird guy that developer is.

idgat · Jan 1, 2022

Spartan said:
but then you have to extract it, run the EXE then choose portable if you don't want to install it! so why the freakin ZIP file if itS not portable to start off with! Weird guy that developer is.

Yeh, but there's still a lot of "old school" out there that still believe bundling an executable file in a zip format offers some sort of protection and/or reduced size for downloading. Minimal/negligible size compression.

Similarly, zip format for multimedia files. With today's broadband speed, attempts to reduce file size for transmission speed, belongs in the days of 14.4Kbps modems.

Spartan · May 10, 2022

Now there is another one I can't figure out, when you right click on a file or folder, how to get rid of the Compress To Zip file context menu entry?