Associate File Extension During Task Sequence

We have to deploy 7-Zip in our org for a third-party storage system that works in mysterious ways with IE. As we deploy Windows 7, we need to make sure to automate as much as possible.. That includes making 7-Zip the default program for .zip files

Here is how I did it (in two task sequence steps for discernability):

1) Run Command Line > assoc .zip=7-Zip.zip
2) Run Command Line > ftype 7-Zip.zip=C:\progra~1\7-Zip\7zFM.exe

We are deploying x86 so we don’t have to worry about the Program Files issues, but if you are, 7-Zip has a 64-bit MSI and you just need to make your path point to the correct spot (IIRC, you will want progra~2 for x64, or you could just spell it out but we don’t do easy around here, dangit).

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