Compressed (zipped) Folder Missing in the New menu

When you right-click on the desktop and click New, the Compressed (zipped) Folder option may be missing.

restore missing "compressed (zipped) folder" to the New menu

The Send to → Compressed (zipped) Folder option may still work.

Resolution

To bring back the Compressed (zipped) Folder option to the New menu, fix the .zip file type association. Please do the following.

  1. Download one of the following files:
  2. Double-click the downloaded REG file.
  3. Click Yes to confirm. You should see the following message:
    The keys and values contained in [filename.reg] have been successfully added to the registry.
  4. Log off and log back in to your account.restore missing "compressed (zipped) folder" to the New menu

    The Compressed (zipped) Folder entry should now appear in the New menu.

Note: The above REG files contain the default registry settings for the following keys:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.Zip
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CompressedFolder

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Ramesh Srinivasan is passionate about Microsoft technologies and he has been a ten-time recipient of the Microsoft MVP award in Windows Desktop Experience (Windows Shell), from 2003 to 2012. Ramesh founded Winhelponline.com in 2005.

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