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# _generals
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07/13/2022, 10:46 PMThis message was deleted.
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Jarian Gibson
07/13/2022, 11:04 PMThe context menu?
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Jonathan Pitre
07/14/2022, 3:44 AMwell it's not exactly disabling it but when another program take over the default file associations the built-in method is technically "disabled". May I ask what's the exact purpose of this ?
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Hal Lange
07/14/2022, 5:18 AMI have the context menu item. But that doesn't diable the ability natively to zip files. I have been asked if we can disable the inherent windows zip ability. Not replacing it
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James Rankin
07/14/2022, 7:47 AMYou can hack it out of the context menu and the file type association by editing the Registry. I guess you could also use App Masking to hide the executables to stop the users putting the FTAs back
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Pat Coughlin
07/14/2022, 4:18 PMThe interwebs say to delete this key HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{E88DCCE0-B7B3-11d1-A9F0-00AA0060FA31} (perhaps back it up first...)
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Hal Lange
07/14/2022, 7:46 PMThat reg key doesn't disable the built in functionality... Just remove the context menu
Hal Lange
07/14/2022, 7:46 PMDidn't think there was but thought I would ask
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Mike Streetz (O_P)
07/15/2022, 6:50 PMif the inbuilt commands are just using the powershell Compress-Archive and Expand-Archive maybe you can disable it in powershell somehow?
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