WinZip destroyed ZIP context menu

Hello!

I installed WinZip recently, decided it was commercial "crap" (too
much money for a simple zipper) and removed it. Since then, the
inbuilt Vista ZIP context menu when dragging a ZIP file to another
directory with the right mouse button doesn't show the "Unzip to here"
item.

Does anyone know how to restore that?

Karsten

PS: Winzip sucks. </flame> ;-)

WinZip doesn't suck. It does the job very well. I've been using it for
years. You just think it's crap because it costs money.


"Karsten Wutzke" <> wrote in message
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> Hello!
>
> I installed WinZip recently, decided it was commercial "crap" (too
> much money for a simple zipper) and removed it. Since then, the
> inbuilt Vista ZIP context menu when dragging a ZIP file to another
> directory with the right mouse button doesn't show the "Unzip to here"
> item.
>
> Does anyone know how to restore that?
>
> Karsten
>
> PS: Winzip sucks. </flame> ;-)
>

You might want to try repairing your .zip file association. Download and
Merge the .zip file extension fix for Windows Vista, found here:

http://www.winhelponline.com/articles/105/1/

When you right-click drag a .zip file, it should show "Extract...".

"Karsten Wutzke" <> wrote in message
news: ups.com...
> Hello!
>
> I installed WinZip recently, decided it was commercial "crap" (too
> much money for a simple zipper) and removed it. Since then, the
> inbuilt Vista ZIP context menu when dragging a ZIP file to another
> directory with the right mouse button doesn't show the "Unzip to here"
> item.
>
> Does anyone know how to restore that?
>
> Karsten
>
> PS: Winzip sucks. </flame> ;-)
>

"Bill Yanaire" <> wrote in news:OjfUIO22HHA.1484
@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl:

> WinZip doesn't suck. It does the job very well. I've been using it for
> years. You just think it's crap because it costs money.

Actually it does Bill......compared to WinRAR anyway.

If money's going to be spent, it should probably be on WinRAR, which
supports more compression formats natively, easily creates archive sets
with files each of a certain size, and also show the contents of the
compressed file in hierarchial form, rather than a large list, with a
'Path' column somewhere to the right.

Karsten Wutzke;416312 Wrote:
> Hello
>
> I installed WinZip recently, decided it was commercial "crap" (to
> much money for a simple zipper) and removed it. Since then, th
> inbuilt Vista ZIP context menu when dragging a ZIP file to anothe
> directory with the right mouse button doesn't show the "Unzip to here
> item
>
> Does anyone know how to restore that
>
> Karste
>
> PS: Winzip sucks. </flame> ;-

Hi Karsten

7-Zip is great free Zip program for both the x32 or x64 Vista. I
supports RAR too. You can take a look at it here

'7-Zip' (http://www.7-zip.org/

Shaw

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"Bill Yanaire" <> wrote:
> "Karsten Wutzke" <> wrote

>> I installed WinZip recently, decided it was commercial "crap" (too
>> much money for a simple zipper) and removed it. Since then, the
>> inbuilt Vista ZIP context menu when dragging a ZIP file to another
>> directory with the right mouse button doesn't show the "Unzip to here"
>> item.
>>
>> Does anyone know how to restore that?

> WinZip doesn't suck. It does the job very well. I've been using it for
> years. You just think it's crap because it costs money.

I would argue that it's still a good product, but the bang-per-buck has been
reduced significantly since Nico Mak sold it to a venture capital firm a few
years ago (it's now owned by Corel). With Nico out of the picture the
prices have gone up and the customer service quality has gone down.

Joe Morris

"Joe Morris" <> wrote in message
news:K%6vi.52$SV4.20@trnddc08...
> "Bill Yanaire" <> wrote:
>> "Karsten Wutzke" <> wrote
>
>>> I installed WinZip recently, decided it was commercial "crap" (too
>>> much money for a simple zipper) and removed it. Since then, the
>>> inbuilt Vista ZIP context menu when dragging a ZIP file to another
>>> directory with the right mouse button doesn't show the "Unzip to here"
>>> item.
>>>
>>> Does anyone know how to restore that?
>
>> WinZip doesn't suck. It does the job very well. I've been using it for
>> years. You just think it's crap because it costs money.
>
> I would argue that it's still a good product, but the bang-per-buck has
> been reduced significantly since Nico Mak sold it to a venture capital
> firm a few years ago (it's now owned by Corel). With Nico out of the
> picture the prices have gone up and the customer service quality has gone
> down.
>
> Joe Morris
>
>
There are so many good free one's out there that WinZip is redundant.

I use this one.

http://www.trans4mind.com/personal_d...per/index.html

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Ian

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On 10 Aug., 20:52, brink <brink.2v4...@no-mx.forums.net> wrote:
> Karsten Wutzke;416312 Wrote:
>
> > Hello!
>
> > I installed WinZip recently, decided it was commercial "crap" (too
> > much money for a simple zipper) and removed it. Since then, the
> > inbuilt Vista ZIP context menu when dragging a ZIP file to another
> > directory with the right mouse button doesn't show the "Unzip to here"
> > item.
>
> > Does anyone know how to restore that?
>
> > Karsten
>
> > PS: Winzip sucks. </flame> ;-)
>
> Hi Karsten,
>
> 7-Zip is great free Zip program for both the x32 or x64 Vista. It
> supports RAR too. You can take a look at it here:
>
> '7-Zip' (http://www.7-zip.org/)
>
> Shawn
>
> --
> brink
>
> *There are no dumb questions, just the people that do not ask them.*
> _http://www.Vistax64.com(\"http://www.Vistax64.com\")_
> *Please post feedback to help others.*

OK, thanks for the answers. I'll try that. I think any commercial
ZIPPER sucks. Some years ago commercial ZIPPERs could be legitimated,
but today every buyer of such a product is plain st***. Personal
opinion (not my money anyway). -> I'd rather program my own zipper in
Java or such... ;-)

Thanks
Karsten

On 10 Aug., 17:42, "dean-dean" <dean-d...@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote:
> You might want to try repairing your .zip file association. Download and
> Merge the .zip file extension fix for Windows Vista, found here:
>
> http://www.winhelponline.com/articles/105/1/
>
> When you right-click drag a .zip file, it should show "Extract...".
>
> "Karsten Wutzke" <kwut...@web.de> wrote in message
>
> news: ups.com...
>
> > Hello!
>
> > I installed WinZip recently, decided it was commercial "crap" (too
> > much money for a simple zipper) and removed it. Since then, the
> > inbuilt Vista ZIP context menu when dragging a ZIP file to another
> > directory with the right mouse button doesn't show the "Unzip to here"
> > item.
>
> > Does anyone know how to restore that?
>
> > Karsten
>
> > PS: Winzip sucks. </flame> ;-)

Ah perfect.

Thanks!
Karsten

In the future when a 'crap' program screws up your system, and uninstalling
it doesn't fix what it screwed up, then that is the perfect time to use
System Restore and roll your computer back to before you installed the
'crap' software.

System restore only rolls back the programs and Vista settings, it doesn't
harm or change your documents that you created in the meantime. And in a
matter of a few minutes all the screwed up settings never happened. =)

Good Luck...

"Karsten Wutzke" <> wrote in message
news: ups.com...
> Hello!
>
> I installed WinZip recently, decided it was commercial "crap" (too
> much money for a simple zipper) and removed it. Since then, the
> inbuilt Vista ZIP context menu when dragging a ZIP file to another
> directory with the right mouse button doesn't show the "Unzip to here"
> item.
>
> Does anyone know how to restore that?
>
> Karsten
>
> PS: Winzip sucks. </flame> ;-)
>