I can confirm that both current v9.20 and beta v9.22 versions of 7-Zip has this bug.
If you want to know how much all or some contained files are, just mark them (to mark all files: CTRL+A) and take a look at the bar on the bottom.
Encase how to view zip files archive#
In fact I’ve even tried using other archiver software and they all don’t have problems opening images in archive with Windows Photo Viewer. When you open a ZIP-file with the archive manager, it tells you the size of the contained files. It seems that this is a bug in 7-Zip because when I tried setting a different software as the default image viewer, I have no problems opening the pictures in archive with 7-Zip. You will have to change the c:\raymondcc.png to the location of the image for the command above to work. Rundll32.exe "%ProgramFiles%\Windows Photo Viewer\PhotoViewer.dll", ImageView_Fullscreen c:\raymondcc.png
Encase how to view zip files full#
The full command for Windows Photo Viewer to open an image file is the following: As we all know that a DLL file cannot be ran alone, so Windows has a file called “rundll32.exe” which allows you to call or run DLLs on your Windows operating system and perform certain functions. That DLL file contains the code to view the images. If you go to Program Files folder, you will see the Windows Photo Viewer folder but only containing DLL files such as PhotoViewer.dll. Windows Photo Viewer is not an independent program that runs from an executable file. Windows Photo Viewer can’t open this picture because either the picture is deleted, or it’s in a location that isn’t available.Īfter investigating the problem, I found the cause of the error and also what can we do to view images directly from archived files. So far I never had any problems opening text files such as readme.txt from an archive but weirdly when I tried opening picture files such as PNG, JPG, BMP, TIF and ICO format, they all cannot be viewed and show the following error message. When we do that, the files are actually extracted to the temporary folder and then ran using the default program that is associated with the file.
When we open an archive file such as ZIP that is associated with 7-Zip, the files inside the archive will be listed in the program and we can double click to view the files. Basically 7-Zip is used to create and extract compressed archived files such as ZIP. I have been experiencing this small annoying problem ever since I started using the popular and free 7-Zip archiver.