7-Zip Options Dialog Box

You can change many of the settings that affect the 7-Zip Plugin in the 7-Zip Options Dialog Box. To access this dialog box select Options from the Tools menu, select Plugins Page, select 7-Zip plugin, press Options button.

Options dialog box contains the following pages:

• System Page
• Folders Page

System Page

Allows you to specify behavior of 7-Zip in Windows Shell.

Integrate 7-Zip to shell context menu

Select this check box to add 7-Zip commands to Shell Context Menu.

Cascaded context menu

Select this check box to group 7-Zip context menu items to one 7-Zip submenu.

Context menu items

Lists the optional context menu items. If item is checked, 7-Zip will add this item to context menu.

Folders Page

Allows you to set folders which 7-Zip will use for internal purposes.

Working folder

Working folder section allows you to specify folder that will be used for temporary archive files:

System temp folder

7-Zip will use Windows temp folder.

Current

7-Zip will use folder containing target archive.

Specified

7-Zip will use folder specified in the following edit control.

Use for removable drives only

Specifies whether 7-Zip should use specified folder settings only for removable drives, for other drives 7-Zip will create temporary archives in the folder containing target archive. If you clear this check box, 7-Zip will use specified folder settings mode always.

7-Zip uses temporary archive files for all update operations. So for speed reasons it is recommended that you select System temp folder option and select Use for removable drives only check box.