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    • PA 21.00.18 Action / Test behaves oddly for me on .PA files

      Brian Gregory

      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.

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    • Convert archive is incorrect for some WinRAR 5 archives

      W

      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.

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    • Some bugs on Advanced options

      W

      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

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    Context menu icons not transparent

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      Franky last edited by

      It would be nice, if the PA2007 context menu icons could have a transparent background instead of white. At my Windows Vista Premium it looks like this:

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      • spwolf
        spwolf conexware last edited by

        interesting… looks fine here.

        We will take an look for next release.

        thanks!

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          Franky @spwolf last edited by

          In PA2009 Beta4 there is still the problem with the white background. It should be transparent instead.
          Here is a zoomed screenshot:

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          • MarcFou
            MarcFou @Franky last edited by

            A few observations. Firstly I dont have this problem. The icon appears as transparent. The second thing i noticed is that your BitDefender icon is also not rendering correctly. It also has a white background. You can see it when zooming in.

            Also your PA icons arent displayed at the proper size (resolution). Have you tried resetting your display properties to default? Open display properties and goto “Theme”. It might say “Modified theme” change it to “Windows Vista”.

            Attached are a couple screenshots. My menu and your BitDefender icon.
            attachment_p_15788_0_menu.png
            attachment_p_15788_1_menu-2.png

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              Franky last edited by

              I still have the problem after resetting the display properties and even rebuild the icon cache. :-(

              Does someone else have the same problem? Perhaps the context menu item of BitDefender is the reason for this problem.

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              • MarcFou
                MarcFou @Franky last edited by

                Im at a loss to figure out the reason for this. I’ve tried every thing I could think of to reproduce this but no luck. Change the menu color, desktop color, went to 16bit as opposed to 32. All no go.

                The only thing that strikes me as odd is the icon isnt displayed at its proper resolution in your menu. Im not sure what would cause that but suspect its related to the icon not being rtransparent.

                If I discover anything I’ll post it here. Im going to experiment more.

                Edit: On my sys I used the remove shortcut overlay tweak combined with remove shortcut prefix tweak. Dont know if that matters.

                Edit2: If you have the menu bar visible in windows explorer, select a file or folder and click the File menu. Are the icons displayed there with a white background? Also in the context menu are the Send To and New menus also showing a white background for the icons? Or only PA and BitDef?

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                  Franky last edited by

                  I also used the two tweaks.
                  The explorer file menu icons are displayed with the white background. :-(
                  The Send To menu are not showing this strange behavior.
                  Strange, really strange…

                  Edit: I just installed WinRAR and there is no problem with the icons. No I think that the white background of the BitDefender icon is normal and there is only the problem with PowerArchiver…
                  attachment_p_15819_0_winrar.png

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                  • MarcFou
                    MarcFou @Franky last edited by

                    Well since WinRAR looks alright then it must be related to PA Shell Ext and not an OS issue. Here is a longshot and might be worth a try…

                    Open PA and goto Configuration>Shell Extensions. Uncheck ‘Use images beside menu items’. Ok then exit PA. Open PA again and re-enable the use images item. Like I said its a long shot.

                    I see you had this issue with 2007 also. The only other remedy I can think of is uninstall, reboot, delete all registry items for PA and do a clean install. Assuming you havent tried that yet.

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                      Franky last edited by

                      Thank you, MarcFou, for your help and ideas. Unfortunately even uninstalling and registry deleting did not solve the problem.

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                      • MarcFou
                        MarcFou @Franky last edited by

                        I may have had a revolation of sorts. I just noticed something in your screenshot.

                        PowerArchiver has opaque icon and menu text is English
                        BitDefender has opaque icon and menu text is English
                        WinRar has transparent icon and is German
                        Take Ownership has transparent icon and is German

                        Could the problem with PA and BitDefender be a localization issue?

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                        • TBGBe
                          TBGBe @MarcFou last edited by

                          Marc - I think you overlooked the first two screenshots; they are in German and NOT transparent.

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                          • MarcFou
                            MarcFou @TBGBe last edited by

                            Your right. I some how missed that. So I had another thought. Maybe it would be worth trying to uninstall, then re-install the Eng version?

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                              Franky last edited by

                              Nice thought, I tried it but it didn’t work either.

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                              • MarcFou
                                MarcFou @Franky last edited by

                                Sorry to hear that Frank. I’ve put you through enough already. I’ll keep trying to figure it out. If I come up with something more conclusive or at least hopeful, I’ll post it here.

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                                • guido
                                  guido last edited by

                                  What version of Vista do you have? 32 bit or 64 bit?

                                  Windows 11 Pro ENU x64
                                  Intel Core I7
                                  32 GB RAM

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                                  • ivan
                                    ivan conexware last edited by

                                    What version of Vista you have and have your tried with PA 11.00 b4 English - does this version work?

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                                      Franky last edited by

                                      I have Vista x64 and I’ve tried the English version - the same problem.

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                                        Franky last edited by

                                        And I still have the problem with Beta 5 (German). :-( Will or could it be fixed?

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                                        • ivan
                                          ivan conexware @Franky last edited by

                                          Issue should be fixed in next beta of PowerArchiver 2010 v11.50 release. Tested with XP x64 and Vista x64 and no transparency problems so far.

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                                          • spwolf
                                            spwolf conexware last edited by

                                            please check with official beta 1, and let us know if this has been fixed… thank you!

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