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Clicking zip files hang the Explorer
I use Windows 11 24H2 on an x86 computer, up to date on 2025-09-02. Today the Explorer started getting hung by zip files: Hovering over a .zip file name showed as file type ZIP Clicking on the fi...
SOLVED:
Just after finishing this post I reinstalled 7zip which I uninstalled in earlier actions.
What a surprise: clicking on a .zip file name doesn't hang Explorer anymore. After setting 7zip as default application for zip files I can look inside a file and I can expand it.
My conclusion: installing 7zip kicked out a mysterious setting, now the Windows processing of zip files is streamlined again.