http://blogs.msdn.com/hoop/archive/2007/01/03/how-to-restore-the-native-zip-file-integration-in-windows.aspxI got a copy of WinZip last week for my x64 box because I needed to unzip a gzip file. I later realized that since I'm running a 64-bit version of vista, the handy WinZip context menu shell extenstions won't work (unless I run a 32-instance of explorer.exe).en-USCommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)http://blogs.msdn.com/hoop/archive/2007/01/03/how-to-restore-the-native-zip-file-integration-in-windows.aspx#1406947Thu, 04 Jan 2007 00:14:58 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:1406947n4cer<p>WinRAR and 7-zip are a couple of alternatives worth trying that have working x64 shell extensions:</p> <p>WinRAR</p> <p><a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://www.rarlabs.com/">http://www.rarlabs.com/</a></p> <p>7-Zip</p> <p><a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://www.7-zip.org/">http://www.7-zip.org/</a></p> http://blogs.msdn.com/hoop/archive/2007/01/03/how-to-restore-the-native-zip-file-integration-in-windows.aspx#1409914Thu, 04 Jan 2007 10:35:46 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:1409914Kevin Daly<p>Thanks, I've been limping along with an imperfect solution (having manually hacked around the file associations to almost sort of half work) for months now, that makes a big difference.</p>