Was Power Archiver affected by the WinRAR/.rar vulnerability discovered by ESET researchers recently?
Not sure if PA is using their libraries for extraction.
Powerarchiver is dead no updates to fix bugs no new features, no communication and errors in program update system with scripting errors. Duplicate context menus windows 11 no fixes no updates
I declare that this is the last version.
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Yes, that’s correct. UltimateZip was indeed a product of the same company that developed PowerArchiver, and it was essentially a rebranded version of PowerArchiver. It was discontinued and replaced by PowerArchiver.
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).
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
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.
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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?
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
Buttons are not properly aligned on About screen.
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Buttons not aligned on configuration window.
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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!
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!
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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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.
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!
Hello!
Is there currently no portable version of PA2023 available?
(When) do you plan to release one?
Thanks!
PowerArchiver file associations …
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Hello,
why does PowerArchiver associate all known archive types when I click the associate button in the configuration menu or when I use the regfiles.exe binary in the PowerArchiver directory.
If the regfiles.exe binary would only associate the archive types selected in the configuration menu, it would be very useful because we use this tool to ensure that all archives are associated in the right way.
Is there a possibility to make the tool work in this way?Sincerly,
Julian Reich
system administrator
Jugendzentrum e.V. Epplehaus -
REGFILES.EXE is distributed with older versions of PA (<= 8.8) and it is used ONLY by installation. There is no other way this file was used. Of course, it used to install PowerArchiver with all known file associations so if someone wanted to associate all of them, he could run REGFILES.EXE.
Since v9.0 REGFILES.EXE has been changed with _PASETUP.EXE. Very similar but more powerful.
If you run this utility without parameters, it wouldn’t associate any file (even those checked in Configuration).
If you run with parameter /associate it WILL associate:- ALL files if there is no registry entry:
‘HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\PowerArchiver\General\Associated Archives’ - ONLY THOSE FILES that are specified with
‘HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\PowerArchiver\General\Associated Archives’
So this utility is not for home users. It is for multi-user environemnts where administration has set default archives that should be associated with PA in given registry key. Given key is similar to ‘HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\PowerArchiver\General\Associated Archives’.
B.t.w. “Associate” button from Configuration window should work fine - it should associate only files checked in Configuration window. Also starting PA itself automatically checs for associations (that are checked in Conf. window).
So if you want to do as described in your post, create HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\…\General key and set value for ‘Associated Archives’ similar to your current user key. Then run _PASETUP.EXE /associate and it will do exactly you wanted.
- ALL files if there is no registry entry:
