Windows 10: Response of ribbon to clicking zipped files: oddness continues

Exactly a month ago, I started a thread called "Drop-down choices under Move To & Copy To gone: only Choose Location" in General Support. The problem I described there continues, and I've noticed another, quite similar problem just now. When I double-click a zipped file, that minor problem with Copy To and Move To in the ribbon shows up (almost identically, if you consider what's absent on the problem machine) in the Extract ribbon, namely, the choices that should be there -- traditional libraries and Quick Access folders -- aren't. Again, it's not a disabling malfunction: I can still unzip files as well as the next guy can. But I sure would like to know what's causing the difference between normal displays and decimated displays on that machine. Ideas? (Pro 20H2 on both, and no other problems I've found.)

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ZIPping files

Windows can zip a file (or multiple files) without needing extra software.

• Select the files you want.
• Right-click any one of the selected files.
• Select Send to > Compressed (zipped) folder from the context menu.
• If you have Windows 8, 8.1 or 10, you can also click Zip on the
  Share tab of the ribbon.

 

Windows 10 Zip functions

I am using Windows 10 and trying to create a zip file. I followed the usual steps of selecting a file, right-click, hover on Send To, and then select the Zip option to compress the file. However, there isn't an option for using the Zip function. It is missing.
I then used File Explorer and found the Zip function on the ribbon, but the function doesn't work. I select the file and click on the Zip icon. Nothing happens, no error message, no file creation, nada.

Any suggestions on how to remedy this problem would be appreciated...greatly!

 

.zip can't be set to File Explorer

Hello Kathleen,

I understand your concern, and we in Community will try to help you in the best possible way we can.

I suggest you to follow the below steps and check if it helps.

• 
  Type Default programs
  in the search bar and press enter
  
• 
  Click on choose default programs by file type
  
• 
  Select .zip
  and select File Explorer
  

Also you can visit the below link Zip and unzip files.
(Steps applies to Windows 10).

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-CA/windows-8/zip-unzip-files

Hope this helps. Post us with status we will be glad to help you.