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For those who are unaware, there is another project [1] that tracks upstream which adds support for various codecs like Zstandard. Many folks (such as myself) opt to install their releases instead. [1]: https://github.com/mcmilk/7-Zip-zstd
7-Zip 15.05 is still useful today, because it was the last version to include built-in support for decompiling NSIS installer scripts. The feature was removed due to security concerns.
For those who are unaware, there is another project [1] that tracks upstream which adds support for various codecs like Zstandard. Many folks (such as myself) opt to install their releases instead. [1]: https://github.com/mcmilk/7-Zip-zstd
Perhaps a tangent, but until now, I've only seen or used "codec" in the audio/video sense. While somehow awkward, it seems this would also be correct, since it also compresses and decompresses. Video codec but archive format. Sometimes you see a word used a new way and wonder if you've just been wrong all these years.
You'll see codec used in things like text encoding.
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I think those first appeared in some form in XP. I don't recall 2000 having support for it integrated into explorer.
They were introduced in the Microsoft Plus package for Windows 98, then finally integrated into Windows ME. Windows ME was released after Windows 2000, so the feature didn't appear there. But it did appear in XP. You could actually install the Windows ME version of the shell extension on 2000.
For those who are unaware, there is another project [1] that tracks upstream which adds support for various codecs like Zstandard. Many folks (such as myself) opt to install their releases instead. [1]: https://github.com/mcmilk/7-Zip-zstd
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>while with 7-zip it seems to immediately delete the temporary file so the external app ends up trying to open a non-existent file. No, 7-zip only deletes the file after you close its window, so as long as you don't close 7-zip any apps should be able to open those files. Winrar doesn't delete on close, but that has its own problems, namely that you accumulate a bunch of extracted files in your %TEMP% directory, and…
I just tried it with 7-zip 19.0, and double-clicking a video file in a 7z archive, and VLC could not open the extracted file because it didn't exist. E: Tried again with procmon monitoring 7-zip, and after it completed writing the file it deleted it.
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I think that at least since win10 there is zip embedded in windows, it’s just not 7z
Zip support has been in Windows since XP. In 11 (and maybe later 10 updates) they added 7z and rar support.
When you open a .tar.gz or a .rar that button is gone.
For those you need to do right mouse on the .tar.gz or .rar and click "Extract All...".
I miss the days when Windows' UI was consistent.
For those who are unaware, there is another project [1] that tracks upstream which adds support for various codecs like Zstandard. Many folks (such as myself) opt to install their releases instead. [1]: https://github.com/mcmilk/7-Zip-zstd
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Perhaps a tangent, but until now, I've only seen or used "codec" in the audio/video sense. While somehow awkward, it seems this would also be correct, since it also compresses and decompresses. Video codec but archive format. Sometimes you see a word used a new way and wonder if you've just been wrong all these years.
The defining factor isn't compression/decompression, it's just encoding. You'll see codec used in things like text encoding.