Its a known issue in Windows Vista, Server 2008 and Seven. I received lots of mails about this problem. Sometimes people called it a bug in Windows and sometimes a virus problem. But the truth is, its a compatibility issue between WinRAR and Windows.
Recently a visitor "Blu" contacted me about the same issue. He is using Windows 7. Whenever he right-clicks on a file/folder in Explorer, he gets a very wide context menu as shown in following screenshot:
Following is another clear screenshot of the whole context menu:
If you are also facing this problem, follow these simple steps to fix the problem:
1. Open WinRAR and go to "Options -> Settings...".
2. Now click on "Integration" tab.
3. In "Shell integration" section, try following things to fix the problem:
- Disable "Icons in context menu" option and click on OK button.
- If the above trick doesn't work, then enable "Cascaded context menus" option.
- If none of the above 2 options works, then remove the context menu entry by disabling "Integrate WinRAR into shell" option.
4. After following 3rd step, your problem will be solved.
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Nikolaj
you have set your desktop icons just like mine.
Blue
thats my desktop screenshot.. lols! thanks for helping me about this issue.
Debsuvra
The problem was not there in Windows Vista SP1 in my case but it quite prevalent.
Sora
It worked!! I never knew what was actually wrong and never have i thought that winrar would actually be the cause of this problem! Thank you so much for this solution you are a life saver VG ^ ^
Jared MacKenzie
I guess that was one issue I've never had as I always removed icons from the integrated shell menu as far back as Win98. But yeah good fix!
Carsey
Wow thanks! Great article! I had no idea what was causing this!
Slomp
No issues here running Windows 7 64bit Version 6.1.7000 Build 7000 & WinRAR Version 3.80. Tested this in several DIRs.
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nice one vg !!...