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I cannot seem to open zip files any longer. When I go to associate a .zip file to a program I have nothing installed to associate to it. I thought there was something built into Windows already. I can do a "send to" compressed zip but then I have no option to open a zip. Any suggestions?
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You should open an elevated command prompt and type the command line I will put in BOLD below.
[I cannot recall if you have to restart the system afterwards - I don't think you need to...]
assoc .zip=CompressedFolder
Also - if you open things other than ZIP - I would like to suggest "7-Zip" as a great free utility to use for opening/creating all sorts of compressed files.
Please come back and let everyone know if you got things sorted out!
