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#2Why doesn't Windows ship with an unarchiving utility?
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#3Why doesn't Windows ship with an unarchiving utility?
It does ship with one, right click on zip file -> extract all. Why are you posting incorrect information that would have been clarified to you by a 3 second google search beforehand?
It didn't ship in the distant past due to anti-competitive reasons but it is there now.
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#4Why doesn't Windows ship with an unarchiving utility?
I think that at least since win10 there is zip embedded in windows, it’s just not 7z
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#5Why doesn't Windows ship with an unarchiving utility?
It does ship with one, right click on zip file -> extract all. Why are you posting incorrect information that would have been clarified to you by a 3 second google search beforehand? It didn't ship in the distant past due to anti-competitive reasons but it is there now.
It ships with a very terrible wizard. Maybe I should say, why does the Windows unarchiving feature suck?
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#6Why doesn't Windows ship with an unarchiving utility?
It does ship with one, right click on zip file -> extract all. Why are you posting incorrect information that would have been clarified to you by a 3 second google search beforehand? It didn't ship in the distant past due to anti-competitive reasons but it is there now.
It doesn't ship with a working unarchive utility, the one that is included will discard anything that goes over the maximum pathname length.
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#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
It does ship with one, right click on zip file -> extract all. Why are you posting incorrect information that would have been clarified to you by a 3 second google search beforehand? It didn't ship in the distant past due to anti-competitive reasons but it is there now.
It ships with a very terrible wizard. Maybe I should say, why does the Windows unarchiving feature suck?
>It ships with a very terrible wizard.
Terrible how? It just needs to zip and unzip and it does that fine for most users. What else do you expect for casual users? For power usurers there's 7zip or WinRar or other solutions.
> Maybe I should say, why does the Windows unarchiving feature suck?
And what stopped you from saying that? HN rules say comments should be in good faith. What you said has clearly different meaning than what you say you meant.
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#8Why doesn't Windows ship with an unarchiving utility?
Windows has shipped with "ZIP folders" and the ability to create and extract ZIP files since the late 90s/early 2000s I believe (not sure exactly what version.) As of the latest versions of Windows 11, Windows ships with libarchive-based archive extraction, which should let you extract many archives natively (including 7-zip and RAR) via the UI as well as the CLI (via BSD TAR, which also ships with Windows these days.)
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#10Why doesn't Windows ship with an unarchiving utility?
I think that at least since win10 there is zip embedded in windows, it’s just not 7z
it goes much further back than that, think it was xp
the issue is that it sucks, it's at least 10x slower than 7 zip, maybe more, showing lots of files/folders freezes the explorer gui on w10 and it only supports .zip (which could've been changed on w11, never used, never tried)