WinRAR and .rar support in 24H2

[Yanta]

My preferred achiver is WinRAR. On Windows 10 no issues.
On Windows 11 the builtin .rar support is monumentally broken.
Also, the features that WinRAR offer are far more extensive than Winows 11's support
So I still install WinRAR. However it doesn't work.

The file association is not working, but all of the registry keys are present (compared with another PC running Windows 10).
Windows also does not honor the WinRAR's installation. it shows .zip files using the inbuilt .zip support, so the associations for extensions like .zip, .7z etc are also ignored.

Yes, I know there are other products like Nanazip, 7-Zip etc around. I'd like to continue to use WinRAR, please.

Anyone had any luck getting this to work?
If possible I'd like to solve this programatically (scripting), so I can add it to my script I run when rebuilding PCs.

thank you.

 

[Grizzly]

I am running Winrar 7.11 on my Win11 24H2 PRO and have no problems at all. Every compressed file is associated with
Winrar, even *.zip...

You can change manually the program for compressed files in the settings in the - apps- default app

 

[Xploit Machine]

My preferred achiver is WinRAR. On Windows 10 no issues.
On Windows 11 the builtin .rar support is monumentally broken.
Also, the features that WinRAR offer are far more extensive than Winows 11's support
So I still install WinRAR. However it doesn't work.

The file association is not working, but all of the registry keys are present (compared with another PC running Windows 10).
Windows also does not honor the WinRAR's installation. it shows .zip files using the inbuilt .zip support, so the associations for extensions like .zip, .7z etc are also ignored.

Yes, I know there are other products like Nanazip, 7-Zip etc around. I'd like to continue to use WinRAR, please.

Anyone had any luck getting this to work?
If possible I'd like to solve this programatically (scripting), so I can add it to my script I run when rebuilding PCs.

thank you.

Uninstall get this .. https://seyarabata.com/67f91e164d040

 

[Yanta]

@Grizzly. Did you have to do anything after you installed it? Did all the associations work out of the box?
I too am running 7.11, but without manually setting the associations clicking on a .rar file says you need an app for this.
.zip file open in Windows explorer.

On WIndows 10 I didn't have to do anything. It just works. Perhaps because Microsoft has now added support for .rar files, but I would have thought a 3rd party app would override the windows defaults.

UPDATE

Before installing WinRAR .rar files are associated with Windows. The Windows archive icon is shown and the files open in explorer.
After installing WinRAR the association with windows is destroyed and the icon is the blank unassociated icon.

The reason is that the userchoice registry subkey in the .rar fileexts registry key is missing.

Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.rar

If I run a reg file twice (yes, twice), it will import the userchoice key, but it is not accessible via regedit and the association is not recognised.

If I manually associate a .rar file it will make the userchoice key accessible and the association for .rar then works.

To automate this in my script if I use setuserfta .rar winrar it fixes the association and there is no manual intervention required.

Now onto .zip files...

 

[Grizzly]

Uninstall get this .. https://seyarabata.com/67f91e164d040

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[Xploit Machine]

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Maybe those servers busy, new backup links added

Download;
- https://anon.services/download/a1284813-5f01-440e-8075-7f15a701cdac .. or
- https://buzzheavier.com/zf44a592e4yz

 

[Yanta]

@Grizzly Sorry, I did reply to you but my post has been waiting for approval for 3 days