Shell Namespace Extensions to Allow Explorer to Open 7-Zip and Gzip files

[GreenCappuccino]

📝 Provide a description of the new feature

What is the expected behavior of the proposed feature? What is the scenario this would be used?

Windows explorer already has the ability to open .zip files. I propose adding shell namespace extensions to allow explorer to extend this functionality to other compressed file formats such as 7-Zip and Gzip.

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[Jay-o-Way]

Does that mean something like this? #3719

[GreenCappuccino]

Yes, something like that. I just did a quick search for "zip" in issues and didn't find anything so I decided to post this.

Speaking of which I might try to implement this as a project. Is there any process that I should go through other than starting an issue and forking the repo?

[Jay-o-Way]

If you would like to contribute, that would be great. You're best off to talk to @crutkas, he's pretty much the big guy around here :)

[crutkas]

depending how #3719 is interpreted, this may fall into that

[favorini]

Would love to see this implemented. Especially for unix-style archives (.tar / .gz / .tar.gz / .tgz ) and .7z files. We have options like the native tar.exe and installing 7-Zip, but those are not great compared to "it just works" in Explorer with .zip files. "Regular" users cannot always figure out how to use the command line or 3rd party apps.

[berserkwarwolf]

depending how #3719 is interpreted, this may fall into that

I participated on that issue, and I concur... #3719 and #6728 are the same. Users should be able to open the most common formats without the need to install 3rd party software.

[ibay770]

You're in luck everyone. Someone already made that.
You're welcome.

https://www.zabkat.com/blog/compressed-folder-shell-extension.htm

[smourier]

FWIW, Windows 11 recent version (23H2) now supports zip 7z gz bz2 tar rar tgz tbz2 tzst txz zst xz extensions natively.