I, not long back, got a Windows 11 laptop brand new for a future career in AutoCAD/drafting & designing, thanks to college. Because of this, I instantly used an education license that my teacher helped me obtain, all to claim access to AutoCAD, Inventor, and Revit. That being said, over time I noticed a strange error with interacting alongside zip files, where a blank error box would pop up, only containing the exclamation-mark yellow-pyramid symbol, alongside no dialog inside, aside from just saying "error" with an "okay" button and the X at the top right of the window itself.
Now, why am I talking about this, here in the forums for Inventor itself?
It is because of what I had to do, to solve the error with zip files. I had found a forum post on Microsoft's website here, and the guy had talked about very few programs he installed before the error kicked up... One of the programs he mentioned, though, was AutoDesk programs. So, I took the highest rated solution on the post, to utilize the freeware program called ShellEXView to fix my issue. It was suggested, because it allows you to turn on and off the likes of various "shell extensions" on Windows itself, even the ones that came installed on the OS itself. So, I took the advice of the post itself, and I went through the third-party shell extensions, disabling and re-enabling them one-by-one, and restarting each time I did so.
I eventually found the exact extension that was doing this error, the extension with the name of "Autodesk Inventor Part". I have a screenshot of the extension details attached, as this I believe was important to share here. Whether AutoDesk themselves actually fixes this issue or not, this should be known by the community AT LEAST! However, while I couldn't directly ask them to give me support, I pray this post can bring them to give us support on such a strange error messing with Windows 11.
To all who are dealing with this issue as well, if you especially happen to be on another Windows OS altogether, like Windows 10 perhaps, please do share your personal experience, so this can be taken note of for everyone who's using Inventor and dealing with this error. Simple zip files shouldn't be this strange to deal with for anyone, after all...
