If for any reason you would rather want to use another downloading directory to be used instead of C:\Users\\AppData\Temp\7Zip then I included the parameter TemporaryDownloadFolder. For example under here I am saying to the script that I would like to use the 32 bit version of 7-Zip instead of it otherwise automatically detecting 64 bit. However if you would rather want to use a specific version you can use the Architecture switch and use either 32 or 64 as parameter options to download and install the version of 7-Zip you want. The architecture parameter by default is set to Detect. It detects in my case that the system is 64bit and of course downloads and installs that version. However you can use the example above to get debugging output of the script to see how it performs and works or hangs.Īs you can see from the picture it automatically detects the architecture of the system I am running this script on. So there is no output to the screen by default. The script was created to just do its job and nothing more. In this case the script will automatically detect your systems architecture and after that it will of course download and install the latest version of 7-Zip using the official website. This example is the easiest one of course it uses the default options of the script. So let’s get straight into how it works and start with the basics. In an example in the post I will show you how to change that. Some things to note is that the script currently uses C:\Users\\AppData\7Zip as the temporary work directory to download the exe and install it from. Maybe that is not now but when you do need to quickly update your own or other computers with the latest 7-Zip build here you are. However it is a script that I share in the case that you need it.
Now of course the argument against this could be made for why create this because stable versions of 7-Zip do not come often. So I took what I learned from other scripts I created and created this new script to install or update 7-Zip using PowerShell. I was met with a challenge to update allot of clients and my own computer in a way because of a security breach that was patched.
Tested with newest version at the time of updating. UPDATE : Included a fix for possible issues with SSL connections and the script getting the wrong url.
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