7zip taking over?

[CardboardSword]

After recently installing 7zip, it appears to want to associate itself with anything remotely close to a .rar file. Normally this would be fine, but unfortunately, this includes self extracting archives, and since its 7-zip extracting them, they don't work like they should, versus just letting the installer run, and I can't figure out for the life of me how to get windows to go back to recognising it as a plain old .exe (or whatever it may be, a mediamonkey script say) This feels like a painfully easy fix, but I'm unfamiliar with Windows 7, so its more of an issue than it should be. Any help is much appreciated.

 

[CardboardSword]

Hate to self-bump, but no-one? I figured this would be something so simple as a right click option I've missed somewhere along the line. Any shots in the dark even?

 

[johnb35]

You need to change program file associations. Google it as I can't tell you the exact procedure since I run XP. If you know where the folder options are and then go to file types and change it.

 

[CardboardSword]

The problem is that it isn't associating with anything it's not supposed to. Under default programs, .exe isn't listed as an extension (probably because you can't/shouldn't open .exes with anything other than the way windows handles them by default.) But when I download these files, the executable comes up as a .rar file, which no longer allows me to just plain run it, and i can't "open with" because there is no designated program (that I'm aware of) that actually runs them.

 

[Paul17041993]

have you tried opening up 7zip and looking through its settings (for file associations)?

 

[S.T.A.R.S.]

1)

-Go to the 7-zip options located in the 7-zip File Manager
-Go to the "Tools" -> "Options"
-Under the "System" tab unselect everything!
-Click the "Apply" button
-Under the "Plugins" tab,on the left click on the "7-zip" and then click the button called "Options...".There turn off the options called "Integrate 7-Zip to shell context menu" and "Cascaded context menu"!Also under the "Context menu items:" unselect everything!
-Click the "Apply" and then the "OK" button...
-Now again click the "Apply" button (if its available) and then click the "OK" button
-Restart your computer...


2)

-Completely uninstall the 7-zip program
-Repair your operating system using its CD or DVD-ROM disk
-After the REPAIR process is complete,install the 7-zip program again
-Restart your computer...





Cheers!