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!
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?
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.
How does PA 07 work on Vista?
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Does PA disable Vista’s built in zip support? Any possible conflicts? On XP, I unregistered XP’s zip dll file but I wasn’t sure about Vista. Thanks in advance!
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should work perfectly fine. PA doesnt disable Vista’s built in support, there is no need for that, it just associates itself with zip archives.
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Glad to hear it :)
The only reason I disabled it in XP is because of the way XP handled zipfiles. If you had a ton of zips in a directory, it would slow the scrolling way down.
Any ETA on a Final?
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If I right-click on the sample zipfile in the PA directory (TUTOR1.zip) to extract it in the same directory nothing happens.
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Denzilla, Funny enough I was going to ask the same question…
PA How far are we from the final?
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If I right-click on the sample zipfile in the PA directory (TUTOR1.zip) to extract it in the same directory nothing happens.
is that an bug report? :-)
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Hmmm, we are in Tech Support and a feature is not working as it should - so you can call it a bug report. ;)
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Hmmm, we are in Tech Support and a feature is not working as it should - so you can call it a bug report. ;)
we are in “How does PA 07 work on Vista” thread :-). So, you should start an different thread for bug report.
But I think your issue is probably with having to restart your computer after installation - have you done so?
thanks,
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I just installed B8 and now something happens. :)
A error message is shown:
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PowerArchiverError creating destination file “”. Check that file is not in use.
OK
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screenshot please…
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Here you are
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oh, welcome to Windows Vista… you can create files in C:\program files\
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we will check for better error message, thanks for reminding me about that
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What version of Vista are you using?
What it does is sends the file to another folder which is somewhere in your Users folder… I need to check better for that…
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You can create files in C:\Program Files but you have to deal with UAC. There are other compression programs around which support UAC already. So it should be possible for PA too. :)
I’m using the final RTM build.
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We need to check on that since I have not found anything 2 months ago when looking for it….
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p.s. it should work if you set PA to be started as running under admin, by right clicking on pa.exe… Try if that works?
thanks
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You see, if people dont complain, we will not find out about things that we need fixing, so COMPLAIN!!!
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p.s. it should work if you set PA to be started as running under admin, by right clicking on pa.exe… Try if that works?
thanks
Yes, it works if I set pa.exe to start everytime with admin rights. But now PA requests admin rights on every start. That is not the intention of UAC. PA should only request admin rights if there is a need for.
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Yes, it works if I set pa.exe to start everytime with admin rights. But now PA requests admin rights on every start. That is not the intention of UAC. PA should only request admin rights if there is a need for.
yep… except that UAC doesnt allow for runtime elevation of rights, so you end up with having to redesign how you do everything because of it…
If we could do it at run time, change process rights, while showing an notification window, then it would be easy.
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yep… except that UAC doesnt allow for runtime elevation of rights, so you end up with having to redesign how you do everything because of it…
Try to copy a file with Explorer to the program files dir. Explorer requests elevation and the operation continues.
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Try to copy a file with Explorer to the program files dir. Explorer requests elevation and the operation continues.
as an different process…
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as an different process…
No. Open the task manager and you will see, that no additional explorer.exe is launching…
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No. Open the task manager and you will see, that no additional explorer.exe is launching…
you can elevate com objects, you cant elevate process… You can check it out on MSDN if you wish.
This is done so virus or spyware cant elevate itself half an hour after you clicked on it, and then show you false name in the prompt…
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p.s. we can do that too anyway, it is just not an 5 minute job of elevating the process, rather you have to rewrite how application creates and extracts files (do it outside main PA process).
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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. :)
