Help unpacking downloaded mods

Post » Tue Feb 01, 2011 10:46 pm

Greetings!

I'm in the process of upgrading my computer, including moving to Windows 7 (64-bit). So far all has gone well. I'm at the point I want to begin rebuilding my Oblivion installation. But I've hit an unexpected stumbling block. My unpacker of choice for some years has be PeaZip. I naturally installed it this time round. But when I right-click on an archived file, no extraction options appear on its context menu. Thinking that maybe PeaZip wasn't compatible to Win7 (though it should be) I downloaded and installed 7-Zip, then tried to associated it with all archive types. Got a message saying that the action had failed, but was given no reason.

My guess is that Windows 7 is blocking the modification of the context menus (or file associations). But my internet searches haven't turned up anything on the issue. Nor did Windows Help and Support. I'm sorta at a standstill till I solve this. I know Winy7 has become popular so lots of folk here must use it. Did any of you face this issue, and if so how did you solve it?

Thanks for the ear!
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Post » Tue Feb 01, 2011 8:11 pm

To change the file associations in 7zip you have to run it as administrator.
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Post » Tue Feb 01, 2011 10:30 pm

Seems I found my issue. It had nothing to do with Windows itself, or PeaZip / 7-zip for that matter. Turns out my file-manager program of choice ... Free Commander... doesn't work well with Win7 64-bit. It simply won't display those needed context-menu entries. A shame really. Free Commander has been a great little program, doing everything I need, file management wise. It's multi-pained.... either vertically or horizontally... which is a must for me. There's supposedly a fix for the issue, but its a special beta version available only to financial contributers (at this time. It'll likely be free to all later, which doesn't help me at the moment.) So I'm trying xplorer2-64bit - trial version (20 days), which DOES show the needed entries. (There a free "lite" version, but it too has trouble with Win7 64bit context menus. Ya just can't win.)

In any case...if xplorer2 is halfway decent I hope to resume my Oblivion build a bit later.

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