Weird interaction with "Extract here..."

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pweasel
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Weird interaction with "Extract here..."

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Hey there, long time lurker first time poster.
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Freshly installed windows 11 25h2, had winrar installed but uninstalled it and got 7zip instead.
When I try to right-click-drag a rar file and choose "extract here" I get the error in the attached picture.
Any ideas on how I can fix it? double clicking it opens 7zip correctly and right clicking it to show "Shell Contect Menu..." works as usual.

phred
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Re: Weird interaction with "Extract here..."

Post by phred »

Is your Custom File Association for 7Zip correct?
Tools > Customize File Associations.

pweasel
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Re: Weird interaction with "Extract here..."

Post by pweasel »

phred wrote: 30 Dec 2025 04:47 Is your Custom File Association for 7Zip correct?
Tools > Customize File Associations.
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I guess not? how it should look?

highend
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Re: Weird interaction with "Extract here..."

Post by highend »

Quit XY
Open your XYplorer.ini file

Make sure that these lines look like this:

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ZipPathUnRAR=
ZipPath7zip=C:\Program Files\7-Zip\7z.exe
ZipExtractUse7zip=1
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pweasel
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Re: Weird interaction with "Extract here..."

Post by pweasel »

highend wrote: 30 Dec 2025 08:28 Quit XY
Open your XYplorer.ini file

Make sure that these lines look like this:

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ZipPathUnRAR=
ZipPath7zip=C:\Program Files\7-Zip\7z.exe
ZipExtractUse7zip=1
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