When will 7zip support Windows 8/Windows Server Next? Will a new version be required?

It would be great to have some type of Windows 8 Metro x86/x64/RT version of 7-Zip available. :)

7-zip works on Windows 8, however the context menu is not installed correctly.

How to fix this:
Go to the folder where 7-zip is installed, rightclick: 7zFM, choose run as administrator.
In 7-zip go to options, to the 7-zip tab, toggle the checkbox with "integratie 7-zip to context menu" and press apply. Context menu is working again.

Context menus was installed successfully for me (Windows 8 x64)

It would be absolutely great to have a Metro/Modern-UI styled version of 7zip. I don't know much about programming - but I'm a Media Designer and could probably help to design the UI. Is there a programmer who is interested in getting this job done?

I've got a strange problem running 7-Zip under Windows 8 Pro x64 RTM.  Hope you can help.

In order to be able to click on a zip file and then extract it's contents to a folder I have to set 7zFM.exe to run with Administrator rights via Properties | Compatibility.  However, when I do this the 7-Zip 'Open Archive' context menu does not work.

When I remove Admin rights from 7zFM.exe the 'Open Archive' context menu works but I can no longer click on a zip and extract it's contents.  I get multiple messages for various files like this one:

0    ERROR: Can not delete output file <file path is here>

Interestingly, I get these same exact messages if I try to extract to a folder that is open by a running program.

Keep in mind I can't use the 'Run as Administrator' context menu option because I am clicking on the zip file not running the 7-Zip GUI directly. My only option is to use compatibility mode to set Admin rights.

I've had many programs that require Admin rights under Windows 8 then I ever had with Windows 7.

Any thoughts/ideas on my problems?

Forgot to mention that I'm running 7-Zip 9.28 alpha

Windows 8 is driving me nuts. I got 7-Zip to work fine when I gave my user account full control over the folder I am extracting to. Why did I have to do this to get it to work? I never had to do this in Windows 7. I've run into all sorts of Administrator rights problems with W8.

For example, the Registry Scanner from NirSoft. If you try the to Open the Registry on a key RS is displaying nothing happens. Either you have to run RS as Administrator or set RS to have Admin rights in compatibly mode. Once again I never had to do this in W7.

Is it just me that is having these sort of Admin issues?

FYI, I just noticed one little thing in general not working in 7zip (64bit) in Windows 8 (64bit) incl. the latest alpha .29: context menu. 'Tools/ Options/ 7zip: integrate 7-zip into shell context menu' does simply not stick in Win 8 RTM, not even when 7-zip is run via right-click, run as admin. I also restarted Explorer via Task Manager, no difference. Oddly WinRar does not have that problem with its context menu in Windows 8 Explorer, so it's definitely a current 7-zip bug, at least of the 64bit version in a 64 bit Windows 8 (don't have a 32 bit Win8 at hand, sorry).

I already informed Project Admin ipavlov.

strange forum software - cannot edit the posting I just made .. Anyway, markvt's approach (see above) did NOT work for me (7-zip latest versions stable/ beta/ alpha 64bit in Windows 8 RTM 64 bit, activated, all updates installed)

i'm using windows 8 x64 RTM and 7 zip 9.20. evrerything works well except that i cannot set file association in 7zip options.

file associations work as well, but as markvt has pointed out, even if you disable UAC, you still need to go into "Program Files", and run 7zFM "As Administrator", in order to create the needed system changes (file associations).

Right button Context menu NOT working on Windows 8 Pro, even after checking on the checkbox with "integrate 7-zip to context menu". Anyone knows how to solve that, or warn the programmers? Thanks.

I had the same issue with the context menu not appearing on my Windows 8 Pro computer. On my system, there was a permissions issue on the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT*\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\7-Zip registry key. The key didn't have an owner, and the Users group didn't have permissions to the key.

I had the same symptoms as described in this other post: https://sourceforge.net/p/sevenzip/discussion/45797/thread/5f7f58dd. Once I resolved the registry permissions issues, I was able to get the context menu working.

One odd thing I noticed was that my registry key permissions listed a "msiserver" user, but I have no such user on my computer.

I had the exact same symptom (no 7-zip context menu when right-clicking on files or folders) while file association itself worked (upon double-click). I tried all proposed solutions (run as admin, check registry permissions) to no avail before realizing I had installed a 32-bit version of 7-zip while my Windows 8 was 64-bit !
It might be obvious, but maybe this can help others...

Vincent

PS: To determine which version you have installed (the About box does not say it), check where your 7-zip folder is installed:
- under "C:\Program Files" => 64-bit
- under "C:\Program Files (x86)" => 32-bit

I don't know why I didn't think about that.... I knew I had it working in 8 pro before but I had to reinstall and when I installed 7-zip it hadn't worked since and it was starting to become a pita.

thank you Vincent