Options Dialog Box
You can change many of the settings that affect the 7-Zip File Manager in the Options dialog box. To access this dialog box select Options from the Tools menu.
The options dialog box contains the following pages:
System Page
Allows you to specify the behavior of 7-Zip in the filing system.
- Associate 7-Zip with
- Lists the file name extensions and associated plugins that are currently registered with 7-Zip. If file name extension is checked, 7-Zip will be used to open file with that extension. In any case you can always open all archives with 7-Zip via your right-click context menu.
Plugins Page
Allows you to specify settings for the installed plugins.
- Plugins
- Lists the plugins. For modifying settings of plugins, you must select the plugin and press the Options button.
Editor Page
Allows you to specify settings for the editor.
- Editor
- Specifies the path to the editor.
Settings Page
Allows you to specify some settings.
- Show .. item
- Shows .. item in file list.
- Show real file icons
- Shows real file icons in file list. If this option is enabled, listing updates can be slower.
- Show system menu
- Shows a system context sub-menu in the File menu.
- Full row select
- When an item is selected, the item and all its subitems are highlighted.
- Show grid lines
- Displays gridlines around items and subitems.
- Alternative selection mode
- If enabled, File Manager keeps selection mark when you move cursor.
- Use large memory pages
- If enabled, 7-Zip will try to use large pages. This feature allows an increase in speed of compression. This may cause 7-Zip to pause when starting compression, because of allocation of the large pages. Also, the Windows Task Manager doesn't show the real memory usage of the program, if 7-Zip uses large pages. This feature works only on Windows 2003 / XP x64 / Vista. Also you must have administrator's rights for your system. Recommended size of RAM: 1 GB or more. To install this feature you must run 7-Zip File Manager at least once, close it and reboot the system.
Language Page
Allows you to change the default language.
- Language
- Lists the available languages.