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Add Missing WinRAR Entry In The Right-Click Context Menu

Posted November 20, 2008 – 7:37 am in: Vista Troubleshooting, Vista Tweaks, Windows 7, Windows 7 Guides, XP Tweaks
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Once again, I am writing this post upon request from one of readers. Sometimes WinRAR entry in the right-click context menu disappears even if you have installed WinRAR without any problem. This is really annoying  as you need to open WinRAR program from Start menu entry to extract any RAR file.

The solution is simple. If you have successfully installed WinRAR, you should see the entry in the right click context menu for zipped files. Suppose, you can’t see the entry means you need to follow the below procedure to see the entry.

*Open WinRAR from the start menu entry. If you can’t see WinRAR entry in the start menu, go to C:\Program Files\WinRAR (where “C” is your OS drive), and double-click  WinRAR.exe to open WinRAR.

*Switch to “Options” tab and then, open “Settings” option.

*Once again switch to “Integration” tab in the new window.

*Check the option named “Integrate WinRAR into shell” and click ok.

Now you should see the WinRAR entry.

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12 Comments

  1. Deyaa Addeen Fahmy Shedeed
    Posted November 20, 2008 at 2:22 pm | Permalink

    New datum, thanks.

  2. Vipsis
    Posted June 8, 2009 at 5:07 pm | Permalink

    doesn`t helped me

  3. Doc
    Posted June 9, 2009 at 6:07 am | Permalink

    Doesn’t work here too :(

  4. raiel
    Posted June 17, 2009 at 8:21 am | Permalink

    Didn’t solve my problem.

    The solution I did is downloaded rarext.dll to a dll hosting website, place it to X:\Program Files\Winrar (where x: is your drive) then my context menu returns.

    Hope this helps.

  5. Armands
    Posted June 10, 2010 at 11:31 am | Permalink

    Thank you =) It was easy to fix, but i havent thought of that till now =)

  6. Karl
    Posted September 9, 2010 at 2:34 pm | Permalink

    Thanks! It worked perfectly! :)

  7. Hari
    Posted November 11, 2010 at 6:22 pm | Permalink

    My friend thats a good fix , I think it worked on vista before , can you suggest a solution for Windows 7.
    This fix doesn’t work on Windows 7:-(
    Thanks,
    Hari

  8. cindy
    Posted February 25, 2011 at 7:13 pm | Permalink

    sorry, but it doesn’t solve my problem at all, and my right click context menu is still missing :(

  9. Matthew
    Posted March 13, 2011 at 2:47 am | Permalink

    Thank you so much! You have saved me hours of opening winrars and extracting them via the program!!!!!

  10. tom
    Posted April 2, 2011 at 5:43 pm | Permalink

    Doesnt work in WIndows 7 either

  11. Ricardo
    Posted May 30, 2011 at 7:12 am | Permalink

    Solved! Works great for me. Thank you very much (from Mexico)

  12. help guy
    Posted October 18, 2011 at 6:30 pm | Permalink

    @Vipsis and Doc

    On the integration tab don’t forget to select the extensions would you like to associate with winrar. That made it worked for me.

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