Solved Right click -> Winrar

Hi,

My right click -> WinRAR has stopped working, has anyone had the same issue? or know how to fix this:

sbh7600 said:

... know how to fix this:

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I don't have a clue, but, I'm almost willing to bet, if you click Show more options at the bottom, you'll get to where you want to go.

True it works from "show more options" and the funny thing is it has worked from the image I posted. But just stopped

My only suggestion would be reinstall WinRar and see if that reassociates the context menu to fix it.

I'll try that. thanks

sbh7600 said:

I'll try that. thanks

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You might want to try 7-zip.

If you uninstall winrar it might be worth removing regedit variables too.

FYI,

• Go to Start > Run, type "regedit" and hit Enter to launch Registry Editor.
• Click Yes if you are prompted to give confirmation in UAC dialog.
• Press Control + F together to open the Find box and then input WinRAR (64-bit).
• Hit Enter (and then F3) to locate the entries associated with WinRAR (64-bit).
• Right click on the keys or values and choose delete option in the list.

Then reinstall it

Ghot said:

You might want to try 7-zip.

7-Zip

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Is that better ?

James said:

FYI,

• Go to Start > Run, type "regedit" and hit Enter to launch Registry Editor.
• Click Yes if you are prompted to give confirmation in UAC dialog.
• Press Control + F together to open the Find box and then input WinRAR (64-bit).
• Hit Enter (and then F3) to locate the entries associated with WinRAR (64-bit).
• Right click on the keys or values and choose delete option in the list.

Then reinstall it

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Thank for this :)

sbh7600 said:

Is that better ?

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Yeah.
7-zip will open anything. Other than that it's just like WinRAR.

7-zip will open: APFS, AR, ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, CramFS, DMG, EXT, FAT, GPT, HFS, IHEX, ISO, LZH, LZMA, MBR, MSI, NSIS, NTFS, QCOW2, RAR, RPM, SquashFS, UDF, UEFI, VDI, VHD, VHDX, VMDK, XAR, Z, 7z, XZ, BZIP2, GZIP, TAR, ZIP and WIM

7-zip can create: 7z, XZ, BZIP2, GZIP, TAR, ZIP and WIM



I would either use 7-zip OR WinRAR... not both.
If you try to use both, the right click context menu will get pretty confusing. ^^

Ghot said:

Yeah.
7-zip will open anything. Other than that it's just like WinRAR.

7-zip will open: APFS, AR, ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, CramFS, DMG, EXT, FAT, GPT, HFS, IHEX, ISO, LZH, LZMA, MBR, MSI, NSIS, NTFS, QCOW2, RAR, RPM, SquashFS, UDF, UEFI, VDI, VHD, VHDX, VMDK, XAR, Z, 7z, XZ, BZIP2, GZIP, TAR, ZIP and WIM

7-zip can create: 7z, XZ, BZIP2, GZIP, TAR, ZIP and WIM



I would either use 7-zip OR WinRAR... not both.

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Sound cool, I noticed there is a integrate option, but it dosn't work for me

sbh7600 said:

Sound cool, I noticed there is a integrate option, but it dosn't work for me

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It should, if you've uninstalled WinRAR first.



Tools > Options...




I have "disabled" the Show more options on the Win 11 context menus (Option #1). Like so...


So my Win11 context menus look like this...








Here's a bunch of commonly requested Win 11 tweaks...

Thanks, I have "disabled" the Show more options to and 7-zip is there

sbh7600 said:

Thanks, I have "disabled" the Show more options to and 7-zip is there

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sbh7600 said:

Thanks, I have "disabled" the Show more options to and 7-zip is there

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For your outstanding efforts, you have been awarded the....








Go to the Start Menu and open the 7-zip File Manager, then go to Tools > Options...
Add everything to the middle column, then MOVE (un-add), iso and cab from the middle column.. like in this pic...

You add things by clicking the PLUS sign over the middle column.
To un-add things that are already IN the middle column... just highlight the item then click the PLUS sign again.





You DON'T want iso or cab to be associated with 7-zip. You can always temporarily associate them from the right click context menu's Open with...

But for general happiness (yours)... you don't want it to say 7-Zip by iso or cab, in the middle column.


That way when you right click an ISO or a CAB file, they will show Mount (for ISO), or Install (for CAB), like they should.
Like this...




That should cover it.

Ghot said:

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Go to the Start Menu and open the 7-zip File Manager, then go to Tools > Options...
Add everything to the middle column, then MOVE (un-add), iso and cab from the middle column.. like in this pic...

You add things by clicking the PLUS sign over the middle column.
To un-add things that are already IN the middle column... just highlight the item then click the PLUS sign again.

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You DON'T want iso or cab to be associated with 7-zip. You can always temporarily associate them from the right click context menu's Open with...

But for general happiness (yours)... you don't want it to say 7-Zip by iso or cab, in the middle column.


That way when you right click an ISO or a CAB file, they will show Mount (for ISO), or Install (for CAB), like they should.
Like this...

View attachment 51850 View attachment 51851


That should cover it.

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Once again, big thanks for your help :)

You have been gifted :

I know of this problem. WinRAR isn't fully compatible with Windows 11's new context menu, at least not the previous versions.
SOLUTION: fully uninstall WinRAR and download the latest version from rarlab.com
Install with default options, make sure not to click "old context menu" option.

Thanks, I just switced to 7-Zip