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For some reason, the PowerArchiver functions in the Windows 11 context menu no longer work after the last Windows Update. Only the functions in the classic context menu function as they should.
I’ve tried uninstalling PowerArchiver and using RevoUninstaller to remove all bits and pieces that were left behind and did a clean install of PowerArchiver, it didn’t fix the issue. Other items in the Windows 11 context menu work.
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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!
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I installed powarc-macos20001.dmg and I am attempting to create a password protected zip file. When I create the zip in the UI it doesn’t write the file to the destination folder. No error message is displayed. The PA app has full folder permission. I’m new to Mac, but have been running PA on Windows for a long time.
Will there be a new version of the Mac version soon?
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Hi! I came across an issue when I tried to uninstall PowerArch 2013. I got an error “The specified account already exists” which broke the process. I got the same error when I tried to install the current version, without uninstalling the previous one.
So I can’t uninstall and I can’t install PowerArchiver. Any suggestions? OS Windows 8.1 x64.Dariusz
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Where are various settings store . . . e.g. ftp, etc.
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should the image have a white background?
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Re: Explorer.exe Crash on right click
This appears to be happening again with the Power Archiver 2022 shell extensions.
When I have Use Explorer Shell Extensions enabled in Power Archiver Configuration and right-click on c:\Users\username\Start Menu, (hidden Junction file), File Explorer crashes.
I have version 21.00.15 (03/2022) 64-bit installed in Windows 10 Version 21H2 (Build 19044.1826).
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Powerarchiver 2022
Right-click and select Encrypt on a folder does not work.
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The online update feature within the program suggests there is a later version than the ‘.17’ available on the web site. But clicking either download or update just reinstalls version .17.
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Hi Dear,
Cannot login and request resend license code for my fd
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Hi,
When you click on the Buy Now link, you come across four tabs - Home or Work, Enterprise Unlimited, Educational Discount, & Gift Discount.
What is the difference between a licence purchased via Gift Discount and a Home/Work licence?
Also, how can I renew the PowerArchiver Select plan a year after the purchase? Will it remind me automatically?
Best,
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I’m running PA 21.00.17 64-bit on a 64-bit i7 desktop with W10 Pro, latest version. This 32gb of installed RAM.
As I use the PA pbs system for a number of scheduled archiving operations throughout the day, PA Starter is set to load and run at system startup.
In the course of trying to identify some causes of slowness and bottlenecks in other processes, I notice that PA Starter (PAS) always runs at between 11% and 15% of CPU (see screenshot), usually at about 12-13%. This is by far the highest demanding process on the system, as shown by Task Manager. In Performance Monitor, PAS Average CPU is 8.32, with every other process at less that 1 i.e. in decimal places only.
Task Manager also shows PAS Power Usage as “Very High”, and is the only process shown thus.
I have looked again at the information about PAS at https://wiki.powerarchiver.com/en:help:details:powerarchiver_starter, which was last modified in 2016. The article states a low memory usage for PAS of 784k, which is fair enough, but it is the large CPU overhead which is of concern.
It is of course possible to change the PAS priority, but this has no effect on CPU overhead.
However, is it possible to change PAS, which is required only at intervals to initiate PA scheduled tasks, from consuming so much system resource for every moment of the day?
PA Starter.jpg
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I’m experiencing very slow extraction speed of multipart RAR files. For the first part the extraction is super fast but when PA reaches the part2.rar the extraction from there on gets super slow. PA needed for a 6,3 GB multipart archive 30 minutes to extract. I tested then with another program and it just took 70 seconds. I had this slow extraction speed with PA for quite a long time and I always thought that is maybe because of a high compression rate that the extraction would take longer. But it seems that only PA gets that slow.
I have lots of multipart archives that are 10+ GB and with PA it would be really time consuming. Is there any solution to this?
Question about "Make large ZIP file (over 4GB)" option
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Is the “Make large ZIP file (over 4GB)” option automatically enabled when creating a ZIP archive which will contain more than 65535 files ?
I ask because while PA cannot automatically determine if the resulting ZIP archive will be larger than 4GB, it will know if the archive will contain more than 65535 files since PA counts the number of files before compressing so it can show the progress.
If PA doesn’t already do this, can you add this feature to PA. Do you want me to post another thread in the Wishlist forum ?
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It is not automatically enabled.
I think the problem is that the main advantage of Zip format is speed.
If the compression is delayed by this automatic check of the number of files before compressing, then maybe the speed advantage of Zip would be lost?Perhaps, nowadays, PA should have this flag activated by default - and let user Deactivate it when required for “old Zip 2” compatibility.
It is not clear (to me) what happens if you activate this flag and there is less than 4GB /65535 files - is Zip 4.5 format still used? (Assuming that deflate64 has NOT been activated.)
Of course, individually, you can set the options you want to use as default via the compression profile.
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In my opinion, this option is nonsense. There is no need to do some checking ahead, exept for the total size of the single file beeing compressed, and this check has to be done for every file, regardless of whether one is creating a zip64 archive or not.
The relevant portions of zip64 archives are kept in special locations in the Central Directory of a zip archive, and the Central Directory is written to disk when the rest of the archive has been finished, means the total count of files etc. is known at this point.
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If you create a zip file inthe old format of zip then add more files to it it can reach its limited and there is no way in powerarchiver to convert to zip64 format.
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This option was first introduced when only selected few applications supported extended ZIP format (4.5) in 2002, which meant that your files created with PowerArchiver most likely will not be readable by someone who does have PowerArchiver or PkZip. Today few other compression utilites support it as well so in one of the future versions, option will be enabled by default.
thanks,
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that would be a good idea but if you reread your message you just posted it does not make sence.
