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    anything planned for the future or is this software just dead now?

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    News/Update on PowerArchiver/Connexion in 2024
    TheAndyMacT

    Hi everyone, some good news about PowerArchiver… I’ve managed to get in touch with the original developer of PowerArchiver, Ivan Petrovic, and he has confirmed that the product is not dead or abandoned, in fact it is still very much alive! There has been a hiatus over the past months for various reasons, but that we should expect to see stuff coming through in the coming months (hopefully the next 2 months).

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    BETA PowerArchive 22.00.11 - Windows 11 Context Menu duplicated/additional tier
    TheAndyMacT

    The Windows 11 context menu for PowerArchiver on normal files (to be compressed, etc.) is now showing multiple tiers with two identical menus. See attached captures of the issue:

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    Edition Windows 11 Pro
    Version 24H2
    OS build 26100.2605

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    No Icons for SFX-Archives
    MerowingerM

    Hello!

    I’ve just created SFX-Archives both from ZIP and 7z-Archives and none has an Icon as it seems.
    I use the new version 22.00.11.

    Zwischenablage_10-22-2024_01.jpg

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    Zip extraction from windows 11 by windows
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    Basically I used powerarchiver context menus to zip up a folder then i used windows 11 own built in zip extractor via the context menu to extract all and this is where it throw up a fault. , I’m using windows 11 .

    The file that was a problem in the zip that windows 11 could not extract was iva “babe” cotton.jpg
    I know it has non standard quotes in it.

    However I had winrar on the computer and tried the exact same method with their context menu compress to zip and then I extracted the file with windows own extract all context menu and it had no problems. This indicates that powerarchiver is doing something different with iva “babe” cotton.jpg compressing to zip.

    Then I changed iva “babe” cotton.jpg to iva babe cotton.jpg and compressed it with powerarchiver and then tried it with windows 11 extract all and had no problems. It looks like powerarchiver is doing something to that one file that has quotes in it.

    Please note that powerarchiver extracted both zip files with no problems, only windows built in zip extraction had the fault. Reason I’m letting people know in case they send zip files with special characters in files names to people who do not have powerarchiver.

    When will a fix be implemented?

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    Installer problem
    L

    On installing the program I am getting the error message:

    "Unable to execute file c:\Program Files\PowerArchiver\pashutil.exe

    CreateProcess failed: code 2

    The system cannot find the file specified"

    This can’t be right!

    I am using the latest official build of Windows 11

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    Button alignment. About window.
    LuxorL

    Buttons are not properly aligned on About screen.
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    Button alignment on config window.
    LuxorL

    Buttons not aligned on configuration window.
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    BETA: PowerArchiver 2023 - 22.00.10
    spwolfS

    New version:
    PowerArchiver 2023 - 22.00.10:

    Download:
    https://u.powerarchiver.com/pa2023/powarc220010.exe

    New build for some bug fixes and issues - full list to come with new update. Please test and see if you have any issues.

    Thanks everyone for your assistance!

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    BETA: PowerArchiver 2023 - 22.00.11
    spwolfS

    New version:
    PowerArchiver 2023 - 22.00.11:

    Download:
    https://u.powerarchiver.com/pa2023/powarc220011.exe

    New build for some bug fixes and issues - full list to come with new update. Please test and see if you have any issues.

    Thanks everyone for your assistance!

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    Missing Icons
    LuxorL

    Just tried using the Modern (Windows 10) Icon set and seeing a few missing icons in both PowerArchiver Burner and PowerArchiver Encryption screens . They are all there in the Minimalistik icon set and the only difference I can see is the former is blue and the latter grey. In version 22.00.9

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    THE SSL CERTIFICATE FOR *.POWERARCHIVER.COM HAS EXPIRED.
    Brian GregoryB

    @spwolf @Mili THE SSL CERTIFICATE FOR *.POWERARCHIVER.COM HAS EXPIRED.

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    PA2023 22.00.09 trying to delete a directory from a tar file.
    Brian GregoryB

    I had a large .tar file (a backed up WSL) and I want to delete a few directories and their contents from it using PA2023.
    PA just destroys the whole archive as soon as I try to delete a directory, leaving it in a state where PA2023 won’t even open it any more.
    I tried several times and also tried compressing it to .tar.xz instead - same result.

    This should either actually work, or it should say operation not supported and do nothing.

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    PA 2023: No portable version?
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    Hello!
    The regular version of PA 2023 is out for over 6 months now, but there is still no sign of the portable release.
    (When) will there be one?
    Thanks!

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    PA2023: Portable version missing?
    A

    Hello!
    Is there currently no portable version of PA2023 available?
    (When) do you plan to release one?
    Thanks!

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    2024
    P

    Will you be releasing 2024 soon?

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    PA 2023 Toolbox - 22.00.09 - Remove archive encryption
    PA_FanP

    Win 11 64 bit

    I have some archives which have been encrypted, using the encrypt option either in pbs or when interactively creating a zip. When I open these, and look at files, I am asked for passwords, which I know, and then can view items or decrypt the files in the archive (tools>decrypt files).

    However, when I use the Actions>Remove Archive Encryption (whether using the same zip or asking to write another), the routine shows progress bar to the end, but then just hangs i.e. “OK” never activates. All process information shows this stalled/hanging.

    What can I do to sort this out?

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    Can you include .3MF to the list of re-compressible formats?
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    Can you include .3MF to the list of re-compressible formats? Its structure is similar to MS Office 2007 documents and Open Document Format. It is a ZIP Deflate archive with XML data and some JPG, and/or PNG pictures inside. Otherwise, if I try to compress .3MF it bearly makes it smaller unless I recompress .3MF to the Store setting then it makes it a lot smaller.
    Wish they all would move to 7zip ZSTD in the first place so that the optimized file size with FileOptimizer would be 50% of the ZIP Deflate version. And there would be no extra compression needed :)

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    Also enhance ZIPX-compression support (for JPEG and MP3)
    A

    Hello!
    While I think the PA is a great format I have the problem that most of my contacts use WinZIP and thus can only process ZIPX when exchanging JPEG and MP3.
    Unfortunately PowerArchiver supports extraction of all ZIPX-archives, but when compressing to ZIPX the really useful JPEG- and MP3- and … algorithms are not supported.
    Please consider adding these ZIPX-compression-capabilities for better interoperability.
    Thanks!

    Wishlist for .pa (codecs, filters, other features)
    Bug extracting from ZIP etc using Extract here with PA 22.00.09
    Brian GregoryB

    For example:
    Download this ZIP file: http://dslstats.me.uk/files/dslstats32W-6.5.zip
    Everything in the ZIP file is in a directory “dslstats32W-6.5”.
    However when I extract using right click “Extract Here” the name of the directory created is “2W-6.5” !
    I am running PA 22.00.09 on Windows 11. I have seen the same happen with some other kinds of archive too.

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      Compression profiles

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      Many ways of doing it. But D&D onto the icon always seemed the easiest.

      Which is why I would also like to be able to move or copy depending on which keys I hold down while D&D (which key combinations matters now) — just as move seems the default in Win 7, but holding down the CTRL key while doing it copies the file.

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      ZTE alpha testing applications!

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      RJWaringR

      @spwolf:

      I just noticed that I have not seen terry around… we miss his calming influence :-)

      That explains why we are all so busy and i keep demanding things.

      Come Back Terry!.. :)

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      Windows Phone 7 "NoDo"

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      Mango is out. Build 7720.

      Just waiting for PA to support it.

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      Winzip tricked me. I will never buy theirs again.

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      spwolfS

      @Innuendo:

      Side note…I’ve gotten, like 40 email notifications of DKJones posting to this thread.

      Attempts to unsubscribe from notifications of updates to this thread have been futile. :confused:

      strange, did you try under thread tools on the top of the thread?

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      PA memory crash with 7zip

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      spwolfS

      Can you please post your pbs file here?

      I have tried many situations to reproduce this but could not, we simply need more information. I have tried compressing 200,000 files and 80 GB of data and backup worked fine.

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      Still virus warning from AVG 8

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      spwolfS

      Oops:
      http://www.itworld.com/windows/57647/flawed-avg-antivirus-update-cripples-windows-xp-pcs

      Their latest update seems to have indentified some Windows files as false positives, so heads up people who have AVG as your XP will not start anymore :-).

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      How does PA 07 work on Vista?

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      @spwolf:

      you can elevate com objects, you cant elevate process… You can check it out on MSDN if you wish.

      Cool, than you have to work with elevated COM objects. :)

    • RJWaringR

      PA2007 What do you think?

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      spwolfS

      @Grizzly:

      Thanks for the fast help!

      Now I saw the button. :o
      I didn’t know it was this button because some parts of the text are missing in the German translation. ;)

      :-)

      We enlarged everything to the maximum especially for the germans….

    • SpAwN oF T.D.F.S

      .uha support

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      TBGBeT

      Disclaimer : I have not tried any of the UHA utilities.

      I’ve not found a GUI for uharc 0.6 yet.) I definitely have no idea where the problem might have arised from. It was just a small test only.

      My understanding is that an archive compressed with UHA 0.4(beta) cannot be decompressed with UHA(0.6). This is what I meant by backward compatility.

      So if PA were to incorporate UHA 0.6 (beta) they would have “bug reports” relating to UHA 0.4(beta). This is not acceptable for a commercial program.

      wish plugins only for decompression wouldn’t be a big problem.

      But it would be a problem as I mentioned before (0.4 <=>0.6).
      PowerArchiver is a commercial product they cannot say “use at your own risk”.

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      Problem with FTP connection

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      spwolfS

      maybe some PA setting for FTP changes, did you send Mili via email your settings? That way he can check with your updated setting to see if it works on his computer… i assume he is testing with ones that work for you :-)

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      Extraction error

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      try this program to see if the shell extension has been disabled

      http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html

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      PowerArchiver 2011 Toolbox Edition

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      RJWaringR

      Nice Response Spwolf, nice response ;)

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      PowerArchiver 2011 Disc to Disc Copy

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      spwolfS

      does the DVD spin up then? maybe it was left as “last used folder”.

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      Slow opening / Slow unpacking start / Slow closing

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      spwolfS

      email us at support at conexware dot com to get access to alpha which you can test…

      As I said, it is 0.3s-0.5s speed up on very fast computers, and possible a lot of speed up on VERY old systems, but I wonder if it will be noticed on average computer.

      Shell is definetly noticable, since there is not slight delay that is there in PA 2010.

      On my own computer, 1.45s for PA 2011, 1.8s for PA 2010, with AV running.

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      Iso mount

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      well that is great news! I’m glad I asked that question as we now know that the issue is not anything related to your specific system.

      We have this issue(mounting ISOs from network drives) reproduced and reported in our bug system already, not really sure when the issue will be taken care of, the developers will take a look and see what is up. Until then, I hope that mounting ISOs from a local drive will not be too much of a hassle.

      thanks again for the details!!

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      Burn Image (.iso) delay

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      spwolfS

      doesnt mean anything, it could query the drive first

    • drteethD

      Slow startup

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      drteethD

      @spwolf:

      nope, we will have to rewrite something once final is released. Annoying issue :)

      Feel free to contact me to test any fixes.

      Cheers

      DrT

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      Frustrated with 2010

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      spwolfS

      @mentorcaptl:

      I have accomplished success. Thank you all for listening to my rants.

      The solution to the 2nd issue (not doing auto backups) was the missing password under scheduling in Windows. As many times as I had entered it, I must have been doing it wrong.

      Thanks again for all your time and help!
      Tammy

      goodies :-)

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      Shell extensions not working, solution: reinstall and reboot.

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      true but it didn’t not even on uninstalling and reinstalling did it mention this. So this needs to be rectified.

      Also even after a restart this happened only after i decided to unistall and restart delete all reg entries of powerarchiver restart and then install restart did it work. what does that say.

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      Open archive after creation

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      spwolfS

      @nameless:

      Yay indeed. Thank you. I do appreciate it.

      I found that the “Compressing Files…” and “Mode:” items are grayed out until I select the “Open archive after creation…” option. For some reason, selecting that option “ungrays” those things. (The same type of thing happens with the other options in the dialog, although in some cases the applicable option has to be checked and then unchecked for the “ungraying” to occur.)

      thanks :)

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      Vista Drag and Drop

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      YAY! it’s fixed!

      thanks a lot!!!

    • spwolfS

      Fast Ring: PowerArchiver 2019 19.00.51/54/57/58/59

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      LuxorL

      Right clicking a folder and selecting compress to folder.pa now works too.

    • Brian GregoryB

      Solved 17.00.90 Creating archive.pa with Optimise strong. file.tar.gz and file.tgz are treated differently when they are in fact exactly the same

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      Problem in original post fixed in .91
      Thank you.

    • spwolfS

      PACL 9.0 Beta 2

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      BigMikeB

      Congratulations, I’m looking forward to a new version to test and to work with. But since I’m on Windows, I’ll just need the Windows version…

    • spwolfS

      Fast Ring: PA 2016 16.10.23/24

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      LuxorL

      That one works fine. :)

    • LuxorL

      Change to tool button. Possible bug?

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      @Luxor:

      All that matters is I’m happy that it’s now functioning properly and I hope that it stays that way and doesn’t revert back to the compact menu as happened in previous versions after a couple of days use.

      What a great way to start 2014! :D

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      Another issue with virtual drive

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      The issue is with the automatic issue of drive letters. I found another piece of software that worked similarly to PAs and also used StarPort drivers. I have updated these drivers via windows device manager without any difference. Anybody have any ideas where the upper and lower filter keys for the PA virtual drive are in the registry or even what the drive is called (Rocket, StarPort, PowerArchiver, SPTD)? Restore points will not help, old ones gone as many installs and uninstalls have written new ones.

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      .PAF/.POWER Testing

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      @davidsplash:

      will the new paf format allow the same actions as zip meaning you can work with files inside a zip file and it will automatically update itself.

      I would like to see recovery like they have with rar. A paf repair tool as well and encryption. sfx program for paf.

      It would be a poor state of development if they couldnt repair there own code. :) but very valid points, and if PA want users to use their new format then they will need to tick those standard boxes you get with competitors formats, would you not concur?

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      Jumplist like Internet Exlporer

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      spwolfS

      you need to test it with taskbar jumplists, not with start menu jumplists… it seems as if start menu jumplists dont get updated at the same time you change options, but taskbar ones do.

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      Up buton

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      @Ren:

      I’ll bump this older thread… :) This is one of things I would like have too so I read through older topics and found this one…
      I think that making another button is crazy but to have ‘…’ for leaving archive will be enough for everyone, won’t be? It’s something I’m missing much.
      Spwolf, I know I can use bckspc, I’m doing it so now…:-) But to have ‘…’ for leaving archive when we have it already inside of it would be great and will make work with bigger number of archives more transparent. :)

      I tend to side with you. I think just the ‘…’ would be enough.

    • spwolfS

      Fast Ring: PowerArchiver 2019 19.00.30/31/32/33/39/40/41/43/44/46/47/48/49

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      New build here:
      https://forums.powerarchiver.com/topic/6189/fast-ring-powerarchiver-2019-19-00-51

    • spwolfS

      Fast Ring: PowerArchiver 2017 17.00.83/85/86/87 RC2

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      spwolfS

      New release is out:
      https://forums.powerarchiver.com/topic/5801/slow-ring-powerarchiver-2017-17-00-90-final

      Make sure to use Patchbeam in the future for super fast updates.

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      FTP connection

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      I can now delete files . . . no problem.

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      Paop

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      spwolfS

      it could be combination of plugins… PAOP has been used for years now, never got that complaint.

      what other plugins do you use (other than ezdetach)? We will try to install them on our Win7 with Office 2007 and see what happens.

    • MickeM

      Difference between the evaluation and the registered version of PACL 6.02

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      Hi!
      Made som more tests with PACL 7.00 [May 11 2012] and noticed one small thing.

      When running PACOMP without any parameters, no remainder pop up to tell the user that the program is unregistred. However if I run the PACOMP with parameters and a file to create the remainder will pop up.

      This is inconsistant behaviour as
      PACLREG.exe
      PACRYPT.exe
      PAENCODE.exe
      PAEXT.exe
      PAFIX.exe
      PASPAN.exe

      all have the pop up remainder to register the program when running it without any parameters.

      It’s really not a big issue, just noticed that PACOMP don’t behave the same as the other program when running unregistred without any parameters.

      Kind Regards
      Micke

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      PA compatible with Vista x64?

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      Done. Thank you so much…

      http://www.powerarchiver.com/forums/showthread.php?p=13927#post13927

    • RJWaringR

      Reseller Web Page?

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      spwolfS

      simplified: bug reports and no small talk!

      :-)

    • Brian GregoryB

      10.20.02 with old toolbar startup funny

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      M

      Disabling video hardware acceleration might give a clue as to whether it’s the video driver or not. In “Display Properties”, click on the “Advanced” button then the “Troubleshoot” tab of the Video Adapter properties page that shows up.

      If the problem goes away after ratcheting down the Hardware acceleration and/or turning off write combining then the problem is almost certainly he video drivers.

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      Do you use the new modern interface of PA?

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      RJWaringR

      Rofl! :D

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      Sort-indicator arrows on columns

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      yeah arrows looks much better than +/-

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      What virus scanner do you use in connection with PA?

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      i’m using AVG but i’m planning to try kapersky.

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      Solved Power Archiver 20018 and Outlook 2016

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      spwolfS

      @MDuss said in Power Archiver 20018 and Outlook 2016:

      Hi Spywolf.

      When you are in the add-ins menu from the option and you want to open the configuration from an other addin like for example “Microsoft-Exchange-Add-In” do you get then the windows which tells you that this add-in have no configuration settings or do you get the window from powerarchiver although you have selected for example the “Microsoft-Exchange-Add-In” Add-in?

      MfG
      MDuss

      In the future update, we will remove separate add-in menu in options, so you will be able to configure it via toolbar only, as Microsoft wants. That way there is no confusion.

      Let us know if you notice anything else, thank you!