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How to restore Winrar to Context Menu ?

Anonymous
2021-05-16T00:44:27+00:00

When I knew no better, I removed the Winrar entry/ies from Context Menu - and now I want them back, but no method has succeeded - most surprisingly, uninstall and then re-install (with the right options ticked) still fails to restore it/them. x32Win10ProV20H2

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  1. Anonymous
    2021-05-17T16:48:10+00:00

    I've restored the Winrar Context Menu entries (more of them than I want) by RE-enabling that in ShellExView.

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-05-16T02:04:38+00:00

    The tenforums suggestion is good, but alas, I do not have another x32 system that I can use as a model;

    and the registry keys in x64 are significantly different.

    The neowin URL looks at the decompression issue rather than the archiving which I am after.

    If nothing else works" I find it hard to believe that this can not be fixed.

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-05-16T01:46:12+00:00

    Other suggestions here:

    https://www.tenforums.com/software-apps/152228-...

    https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1316850-winr...

    If nothing else works I'd change to 7Zip which seems to work better and can do everything WinRAR does without as much overhead.

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-05-16T01:35:49+00:00

    I had already seen and acted on that URL you suggest - to no avail.

    I want to re-emphasise that I have also thoroughly uninstalled Winrar, and then re-installed with the correct options ticked.

    I think (for what it is worth) that something in the Registry needs tweaking.

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  5. Anonymous
    2021-05-16T01:17:54+00:00

    Hi Joseph. I'm Greg, an Independent Advisor.

    See how to restore WinRAR to right click context menu here:

    https://www.intowindows.com/add-missing-winrar-...

    Let me know how it goes.

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