Thursday 27 June 2019

How to add WinRAR ZIP archive to Right Click context menu 'New' in Win 10

With WinRAR installed, the Window context menu 'New' will have option for WinRAR archive. Select this option will create new RAR file ready for adding archive.

To disable it, open WinRAR (Run it from C:\Program Files (x86)\WinRAR\WinRAR.exe if there isnt any shortcut) and choose Option -> Settings -> Integration than untick Integrate WinRAR into shell.


WinRAR also has another option to create archive, in zip format. But it is not added in the context menu. To add this entry to the context menu, i am using the window registry.


Open Window search box and type 'regedit'. Run regedit.exe when you see the command. Go to CLASSES_ROOT and find filetype '.rar' than click ShellNew to see the key FileName and data. Right click to modify FileName and copy the vaslue data 'C:\Program Files (x86)\WinRAR\rarnew.dat'.


Scroll down to find filetype '.zip'. Right click on '.zip' to add new key 'ShellNew'. Right click ShellNew to add a new string value. Change the value name to 'FileName' and paste the copied data just now to value data. Change the value data rarnew.dat to zipnew.dat. This will add ZIP option for New menu in Windows Explorer right click context menu. 

Quit the regedit.exe. If you don't see the new ZIP option now, restart the computer.

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