Steve,
Thanks for your quick response.
I actually did manage to get Winzip to extract a talking book, but I
believe the option was announced as adding to zip file, or something of
that nature, which left me a bit confused.
I keep getting nagged by Winzip, and although I know it might be
necessary toward getting people to finally give up and buy the product,
it is nevertheless quite annoying. So, think I might just reinstall
7Zip, and see if I can't get used to their similar wording.
Do you happen to be using the latest version yourself? If so, maybe you
can walk me through their configuration menu, and help me decide just
what to checand what not.
One thing the 7Zip did, after I went through the exercise of checking
and unchecking the boxes, when pressing the OK button, it told me that
access to 7Zip was denied. Thought that might be an administrative
issue, so even asked the guy at MS to make sure I managed to do all that
right. Anyway, he told me that I did have full admin rights, or at least
that he completed the process.
I really hate to admit it, maybe it is a matter of age, but these
computer problems can raddle me a bit more than they used too.
Oh well, please let me know what you think.
Thanks very much again,
Larry
On 6/5/2019 2:00 PM, Steve Jacobson via Talk wrote:
Larry,
When you brought up the context menu, are you sure that you had a zip file
selected? For example, if you delete a file, sometimes no file is selected
even if the current file is a zip file. The MS person would probably have seen
that, though.
Also, did you have an old 7-zip install file that you used or did you download
the latest? Be sure to get the latest file. Sorry if this has already been
covered.
Best regards,
Steve Jacobson
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Subject: In a real jam
Well Listers,
I really managed to get myself into one this time. I sure hope someone
can help me out of this mess.
Just last week, it became necessary to replace my Dell PC with another
one, so this time I went with an HP. I'm pretty sure that makes no
real difference in terms of my present issue.
On my Dell, I had 7Zip running in my context menu for extracting, and or
zipping files, and became quite comfortable with it. So, thought I'd
try putting it on my new system. I downloaded the 64bit
edition of the program, and it showed up in my context menu as it
should, but out of all the options available, it had no option for
extracting files.
I should say, I at least can find no such option.
Now, this could make it totally impossible to extract either Bookshare,
or NLS Talking Books on my system.
I called the MS Answer Desk this morning, and asked the guy assigned to
help me if he couldn't possibly restore the default program used by
Windows, but he did something I was kind of surprised at. He replaced
the extraction option with Win zip, and I can find no option for
extracting files with Win zip either.
To make matters worse, he installed an evaluation copy, which I will
have to pay for, provided I end up getting it to cooperate.
I sure hope I don't have to do anything drastic, like refreshing
Windows, but at least this time, I do have cloud storage backup.
This really shouldn't have been this complicated. Sure wish I'd left
well enough alone.
If anybody has any ideas, or real assistance to provide in getting out
of this one, it sure would be gratefully appreciated.
Maybe a bit of phone assistance might be in order. If someone wants to
volunteer, please kindly answer me off list.
Got any ideas Rod <smile>?
Sincerely,
Larry
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