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Feature request: Smarter, per file-type shell integration

Eleventeen
2015-11-07
2016-04-06
  • Eleventeen

    Eleventeen - 2015-11-07

    7-zip is an awesome piece of software, and has really become the ideal archiving app in most ways.

    But still lags behinds the paid competitors in one way:
    Shell integration doesn't offer any options.

    You get a list to do file assosiation per file type, which is great.
    And given that you can pick anc choose which youd like to use with 7-zip one would think the shell integration checkbox is related to those formats. It is in many other programs.

    But in this case of 7zip, it is not. once enabled it applies to a massive, unlisted seemingly arbitrary number of formats that in my case just slows productivity.

    EG: I go to copy a .xls spreadsheet i downloaded to my desktop. As the default left click drag action is move, and i want to copy, I rightclick drag. Given ive done this a million times before I automatically click the first option as that is always copy for regular non-archive file formats.
    I end up with 3 files on my desktop as I didnt copy, for some reason I extracted a spreadsheet, a format I wasn't even aware was an archive, and far as I can isnt since it just gave me 3 files that seem uselesss - they have no human readable text:
    [5]DocumentSummaryInformation
    [5]SummaryInformation
    Workbook

    So yea, given we had no way or re-ordering that context menu, having an option to have it only on the formats we want would be ideal. Atm is its all or nothing. And I tried editing the registry to only include the subkey to the correct formats that i've assigned to 7-zip, but it appears this is hard coded into the .dll or im not aware of how its functioning enough to do that.

    EG: I like that functinon for actual archive i use hte app for (7z, zip, rar. rarely tar.gz) but not any other. It seems to handle a huge amount that I had no idea it could even open, like all office formats, exe - even ones that arent self extractors, etc.

     
  • Eleventeen

    Eleventeen - 2016-04-06

    Any progress on this yet?

     

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