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Originally Posted by Phssthpok
OK, sorry, I was thinking of the way Windows uses a plugin to treat zipfiles as folders in Explorer (which is always one of the first things I disable!). In which case I could just browse inside the folders with Explorer and right-click and send-to and so on. I hadn't come across any plugins to do this for rar, 7z and suchlike though...
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It's true that there are no off the shelf plugins for Windows/File Explorer in the MS or iTunes stores,
But other file managers such as Total Commander, Directory Opus and xplorer2 do support plugins - in fact xplorer2, which is what I use, supports most of the TC PIs, of which there are hundreds.
And I just remembered. . . the xplorer2 developer, Nikos Bozinis, has a free shell extension that allows you to drill down into most archive types from Windows/File Explorer, just like you can with a zip (if you allow it), see ==>>
Browse 7z/RAR/ARJ/GZIP and other compressed archives as folders - I don't use it myself, because using a separate program to open RARs, ISOs etc has never bothered me.
Aside - just because you can't do something with out-of-the-box Windows doesn't mean it cannot be done. Indeed, it has probably already been done - the trick is to find out where and by whom
BR