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Windows Compressed file extract utility - "Extract All"

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by terry walker

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I'm using Vista Home Premium. The "Extract All" feature has disappeared from the pull-down menu in Explorer. Does anyone have a way to find and/or restore this.

All advice gratefully received.

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by seanferd

WinZip, WinRar, 7Zip, or similar? The commands would be in that utilities context menu entries. If you have since uninstalled such a utility, the file association may be gone.

You can try these two commands at the command prompt:
regsvr32 zipfldr.dll
regsvr32 cabview.dll

Let us know if that solves the problem.

edit:
Here is also a registry fix for the zip extension if you need it.
http://www.winhelponline.com/articles/105/1/File-association-fixes-for-Windows-Vista.html

Click in "zip" in the grid for the fix file. Follow the instructions on the first page.

by terry walker

Thanks for the advice re the file association fix. This seems to have done the job but I would love to know how this happened in the first place as there was no need to have WinZip etc.

Much obliged.

by seanferd

It could have been any software installed that would associate itself with zip files for some reason. Possibly malware or just good old generic Windows registry corruption.

Without a full and detailed history of the machine, and even with such information, it may be rather hard to discern a cause.

Good to know the problem is resolved, though!

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