Context menu missing
Re-enable it in settings, restart Explorer, and check Show more options on Windows 11.
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Diagnose common setup, context-menu, performance, and extraction problems.
Troubleshooting
Re-enable it in settings, restart Explorer, and check Show more options on Windows 11.
Disable conflicting archive extensions, register the menu again, then sign out or restart.
Update, lower the level, and inspect threads, memory, disk, network paths, and live security scanning.
Reapply associations, restart Explorer, and rebuild the icon cache if necessary.
The archive may be damaged, incomplete, or using the wrong password. Download again, test it, and verify every volume.
Keep continuous, unchanged part names together and start from the first part or final ZIP file.
Use a local writable folder and check free space, path length, permissions, read-only media, and security blocking.
Check case, keyboard layout, encoding, and algorithm; older tools may not support AES or filename encryption.
Allow disk flushing and scanning to finish; retry on a local SSD with shorter paths and fewer threads.
Check network, clock, TLS, proxy, firewall, license type, and device count before entering the key again.
Copy it locally first and check mapped credentials, locks, offline state, and sync-client usage.
Try automatic detection or the correct codepage; prefer Unicode ZIP or 7Z for cross-platform exchange.