The problem - unfortunately - is that I am not 100% sure what I did. I was tinkering with adding and deleting several other items in the shell extensions menus. (I thought tinkering with the menus might yield a result.)

I THINK this is what I did:
Under compression:
1. removed compress to RAR

Under extraction:
1. ended up with “extract archive to” and “extract archive here.” I either had one but not the other; on even took one off and added it back on.

In any event, shazzam: test showed up and worked correctly, both in explorer shell AND in right clicking within the PA window. It did NOT take to me to the PA windows or require me to actually open the archive. Just selecting it was enough.

If you want, I can send you the new registry keys, and you can compare them with the one I sent this morning. Perhaps you can isolate the exact difference.

I have used test within the shell for as long as I have used PA. I did not have to open the archive . . . just have it chosen.

Have you decided that they will no longer be true? I can live with it within the sub-menu, as long as it works the way it used to.

no, i was talking QAT and inside main PA. In the shell, it should work same as always, there were no changes in any case, just repositioning one button.

Have you decided that they will no longer be true? I can live with it within the sub-menu, as long as it works the way it used to.

I Use Win 7

Perhaps it works, too, if I break it apart into all the sub areas. But I don’t want to do that. Context menu is too cluttered as is.

I can get it to show up if I add it to the sub-menu (which, I think, is what Luxor has done). Could you try adding it to the main menu and see what happens?

send over your settings and we will try with them and see what happens on our test computers… maybe it wont show up either.

That seems like an unnecessary step.

First, it asks me for the proper file association, and then just opens the PA window where I can, if I wish, test the archive.

But this is multiple steps for what should be two clicks (right context menu / test).

Then either it is Vista versus 7-32

Vista does something better than win7, that’s got to be a first. ;)

@Socrates:

I can live with it in sub-menu, but since I use it a lot, I would have preferred. . . .

Have faith in the team, they are good at finding and fixing our own little personal issues. :)

Except for a couple of my personal little ones. :D

Never been a problem before.

I can live with it in sub-menu, but since I use it a lot, I would have preferred. . . .

I can get it to show up if I add it to the sub-menu (which, I think, is what Luxor has done).

Yes that’s how mine is set up.
@Socrates:

Could you try adding it to the main menu and see what happens?

Anything to oblige. :)

No problem set up like that neither.

Perhaps it works, too, if I break it apart into all the sub areas. But I don’t want to do that. Context menu is too cluttered as is.

I can get it to show up if I add it to the sub-menu (which, I think, is what Luxor has done). Could you try adding it to the main menu and see what happens?

My screen capture program won’t let me capture right menu options within PA; but here is explorer RC menu.

click on several archives. zipx and 7zip