Windows 11 23H2 is getting full-fledged Create Archives for ZIP, 7z and TAR | Laptop News

Wouldn’t it be fantastic if you could create ZIP, 7z, and TAR files natively on your Windows computer without taking the help of any third-party applications? Luckily, you can, as this feature is coming to Windows 11 sooner than you expected.

Earlier, Microsoft had planned to roll out this feature with the Windows 11 24H2 update, which is expected to release somewhere later this year. But now, this feature has been backported to versions 22H2 and 23H2. This means you soon will be able to use it in the stable version of Windows.

How to enable Windows native archive file maker?

As noticed by PhantomOfOcean on X, this feature is currently available in Windows 11 build 22635.3566 on the Beta channel and is disabled by default.

You can enable it by running a ViVeTool command on your computer. To do this, first download ViVeTool on your computer and extract it to your downloads folder. After that, follow the below instructions:

1. Open the Start menu, type Command Prompt in the search bar, and choose Run as administrator.
2. In the elevated Command Prompt window, type cd followed by the location where you have extracted the ViVeTool files.
3. Then, type the following command and hit the Enter key.

   vivetool /enable /id:49256040,48433719

Now, restart your computer, and you will have the feature enabled. You can use it by right-clicking on a file, choosing Compress to from the context menu. You’ll get different options to compress your file, including converting it to a ZIP file, 7z file, and TAR file.

You can click either of these options, and then Windows will create a compressed version of that file with the same name.

You’re getting more control over the compressed file

Windows has also added a new Additional options in the Compress to…