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PA 21.00.18 running on Windows 7 64 bit.
I made a big .PA file and thought I’d check it was made correctly with Menu / Actions / Test.
Discovered:
a) PA always issues a UAC prompt to do this!
b) PA always says there are many errors in PA files. -
WinRAR 5 has a rather useful option in some cases, which is to be able to create an archive by replacing identical files with a reference to the first occurrence (hardlink) within the archive.
In case you choose to convert the file with PowerArchiver to another format, however, the resulting archive does not have all the files. It does not consider those that were present as hardlinks.
If you do a normal extraction of the RAR archive instead, even with PowerArchivier, all the files are extracted correctly. -
When adding to a file archive, and selecting for example PA format, strong optimization method, extreme compression. In the Advanced Options section you change to Automatic, EXE Filter and PDF filter . You return to the main section and save the Profile. When you then reload the profile you do not have the Automatic options of EXE Filter and PDF saved there.
I noticed that instead if you change other options they are saved correctly (except for the Filter box values).Also among the various changes to the advanced options you click the “Calculate RAM usage” button the value seems to be added to the previous one. You can see it for example just by clicking the button twice in a row, the value changes. Edit: actually after many attempts now it seems to write a stable value (it does not change with each click). Maybe a synchronization problem in the calculation?
Used PowerArchivier 2023 but there is the same behavior with the 2022
What's with all the orphans?
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Greetings.
PA 9.62.03, but this has been happening for quite a while. Every time I use PA, I end up with another POWERARC.EXE after I close the program.
I currently have 9 running! See attached.
Sup?
Cheers
Darren
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I believe it is Startup guard causing this issue - it has been posted on forums before. Do you have System Mechanic installed?
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No System Mechanic/Startup Guard installed. What specifically was causing the orphans? Perhaps I can see if any other apps I have installed doing the same thing.
I did a search on System Mechanic, but only found another post – regarding BSOD’s. Not happening here.
Cheers
DarrenPS Long delays between my replies – only home on weekends
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Please check:
http://www.gregorybraun.com/DLLShow.htmlRun PowerArchiver, and DLLShow will show you an list of dependencies for powarc.exe. If it is not made by MS or in our installation folder, it should not be there.
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Stuff from Logitech (web cam), Patchou (Messenger Plus! 3), and Nvidia. Nothing funky.
If it is not made by MS or in our installation folder, it should not be there.
Really? I’ve never before heard a software developer say that hooks were inappropriate.
Incidentally, PA is the only application that has a problem – none of the literally hundreds of other apps I run exhibit this behaviour.
Statistically speaking, the chances that this is not PA’s problem are pretty slim.
Cheers
Darren -
Stuff from Logitech (web cam), Patchou (Messenger Plus! 3), and Nvidia. Nothing funky.
Really? I’ve never before heard a software developer say that hooks were inappropriate.
Incidentally, PA is the only application that has a problem – none of the literally hundreds of other apps I run exhibit this behaviour.
Statistically speaking, the chances that this is not PA’s problem are pretty slim.
Cheers
Darrenhooks that cause PowerArchiver to stay in memory certainly are innapropriate. Try uninstalling Patchou and see what happens.
So far we only had problems with Startup Guard and this is only time it has happened - I think they might have fixed it in some recent release since we did not get an complaint in a while.
Statistically speaking, out of 2 million downloads in past 12 months, you are first to report something similar so it is quite possible that it is something very specific, otherwise it would happen to many people. :-).
Let me know what happens when you try uninstalling, if it still happens, you can upload list from dll show here and we will check it out.
Dont worry, we will definetly check it out and if it is something on our side, we will fix it, as with everything else we do.
