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And finally, here is a short video of using FCXE to invoke WinRAR in assorted modes .

First I use WinRAR to CREATE both a new RAR file and a new ZIP file. The two files being placed into the compressed result are first both selected, then right-click on the pair resulting in a context menu that ...

Next, here is a very short MP4 video of what happens when Win11 25H2 File Explorer right-click is performed on a file, whose type would justify additional "shell extension" insertions from 3rd-party software. This includes WinRAR, PowerISO, MediaInfo, MP3Tag, etc., some of which may appear on both ...

Installation of WinRAR 7.23:

Well, even six years later I still have to say that I still don't follow why the behavior of FCXE's "interface" to WinRAR as I experience it on my own machines isn't the same as occurs in your own experience and therefore acceptable, assuming it is the same behavior.

Now if FCXE->WinRAR behavior on ...

I originally put this item in the "bugs" sub-forum, because that's what I felt it was. That post was deleted from that sub-forum. I suppose it was not considered to be a "bug".

Well then I would like to bring the notion up for "discussion" here instead. It does at least need to be considered.

The ...

I don't know if this is something new, or longstanding, or related specifically to Win11, because I haven't done a lot of testing on these various other platforms.

But for sure on Win11 and latest current FCXE 951, if you click on the "creates new folder" button (or F7), the correct folder-creating ...

You don't see the point because you may not have large deep nested network folders.
Those may take a very long time to expand and delay the start-up.
Having a network location as the last location in either left/right (or top/bottom) pane has always been something that slows down re-launch ...

So the item height of 18 in FCXE 948 is 18 and displays "normally, i.e. single-spaced". But the same item height of 18 in FCXE 949 now results in "double-spaced"?

So we have to now change it to 12 in order to restore the old single-spaced presentation, except that the UI for item height does not ...

Further discoveries and clues...

Again... this is Win11 25H2, running FCXE specifically in user-mode where at least certain 3rd-party shell extensions will appear. Something about FCXE running in admin-mode which 100% prevents those 3rd-party shell extension entries from ever appearing in the right ...

Update after new testing with version 944:

(1) I started up an old laptop that is still running Win11 23H2, upgraded FCXE to latest version 944, and tested right-click menu behavior on the various files with extensions which are supported by WinRAR (including ZIP, RAR, 7Z, etc.).

(a) ADMIN-mode ...

I tested 940 (64 & 32 bit) + Win11 (24H2) - WinRAR item exists always in the context menu, if you start FC as normal user.
If FC is started as Admin - the WinRAR item disappear from the context menu.
Do you have a 25H2 system to test this on for yourself? I no longer have a back-level 24H2 system ...

I have to report that whatever Microsoft implemented in 25H2 is the key change here. They made significant modifications to the taskbar and in particular the notification area (system tray), insofar as what user modifications are still allowed to do or not do. As an example, the Github product ...

WinRAR (v7.13 64-bit) installed, shell extension implemented.

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so that it supposedly appears in right-click popup menu on RAR file.

And in Win11 (25H2) File Explorer, right-click on RAR file does show WinRAR at the very bottom of the ...

If you HOVER the mouse over that drive icon at the beginning of the ADDRESS bar, you get a flyout showing the additional "capacity" information you're looking for. It's not presented in the dropdown palette you show for ALL of the local drives when you left-click on the drive icon, but at least it ...

Totally fixed by 904. Thank you, thank you.

Case closed.