New Features poll
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What are the pro features?
so all of us who have loyaly tested and reported bugs are not getting a free upgrade to the pro version.
I wouldn’t mind if the pro version was minor better features if they are more most of us will be annoyed and angry. Just a word of warning thats what drove me away from winzip in the first place, after i ran it in conjunction with powerarchiver as i had it before pa was shareware.
I don’t mind paying for features that enhance powerarchiver, but it will mean that disabled features need a new foirum to test that they work ok when activated and need to be tested fully.
Be warned that more cracks/keygens have appeared for winzip scince it started having a standard and pro version. what i prepose is not a pro version but extra features via plugins that u can buy which bolt onto powerarchiver. This would mean that you make far more money. what does everyone else think.
You are not going to lose any of standard features. So no need to worry about that.
Standard version wont be left out in dark like with some companies - in fact, we expect most of our current users to use Standard and not Pro version. Actually proven by this poll.
And lastly, Pro version wont be expensive - not to upgrade and for new users, not to buy either…
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Which target group is adressed with the Pro Version?
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Which target group is adressed with the Pro Version?
people who use standalone backup programs and like features of competing utilities that have direct burning to disc… of course, ours is much better :P.
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good good, you will like it then…
I 100% agree please do not add a Burning feature! Last thing we need is PowerArchiver to become Bloatware.
Lets leave the Burning to Nero or something :)
lol Nero is Bloat too!
I want PowerArchiver to become much faster at everything!!! :)
And my %1 Vote is for Preview window to preview images, archives and more!
And Speed!
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Has “keep broken files option for zip and rar files” been added to PowerArchiver 2008?
Please say it has! :)
We want this sooo bad!
WinRAR can do this.
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I 100% agree please do not add a Burning feature! Last thing we need is PowerArchiver to become Bloatware.
Lets leave the Burning to Nero or something :)
lol Nero is Bloat too!
I want PowerArchiver to become much faster at everything!!! :)
And my %1 Vote is for Preview window to preview images, archives and more!
And Speed!
all of these features are already in :).
So it is both faster and bloatware in the same time!!!:)
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of course, dont expect 1000x improvement in compression/decompression…
In certain cases, especially with Vista, it is quite a lot faster than before.
Some tests vs 2007:
MS Office 2007 folder- PA 2009 is 24% faster in zip max compression (53 seconds faster).
- Unrar of same folder PA 2009 is 63% faster.
There are some certain rars where decompression difference will be even bigger (larger MV rars).
Of course, in some cases difference might be minimal but overall thats something we have definetly worked on for PA 2009.
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What about 7Zip format?
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There are also improvements in 7-ZIP compression/decompression that consider interface improvements - improved some areas that in PA would make compression/decompression engine slower. But core compression is done with 7-ZIP DLL which has always some smaller optimizations from version to version, but this is something out of our control (e.g. Ultra compression memory requirements and speed).
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unicode is not full, but it is fully usable - it wont show properly in all tools, but for 7zip and rar compression/decompression and preview of files, works perfectly, including in shell and filenames… so it is big step forward, not perfect.
I’m looking forward for it ;)
and speed optimization is needed but not to reduce ratio too much:D
or add Super mode, not for fast compression in high ratio like Ultra or Max mode, but for highest compression without any speed optimization tricks :cool:
own command line for 7zip will be good too ;)
Regards
Virtual_ManPL -
there were no changes to compression, it was just optimizations on PA side of things…
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bump…
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A feature I’ve often wished for is an “Open as administrator” addition to the Explorer right-click menu. This would be especially handy in Vista, when you want to extract an archive into a folder that requires administrator rights.
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I think one area I would like to see in the future is more intergration with todays Antivirus Software.
The current version of PA Just offers a drop down selection of some of the exe’s which run quick scans.
Idealy, on install or upgrade PA could autoscan for any active antivirus and update it self. Or ask which antivirus you use out of a top 10 List and then apply automatically. You could also “add new Antivirus to list”.
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A feature I’ve often wished for is an “Open as administrator” addition to the Explorer right-click menu. This would be especially handy in Vista, when you want to extract an archive into a folder that requires administrator rights.
That would be a very good idea as Vista can be a real pain when you want to do something as simple as that.
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for any new features for future releases, it is useless to post it here - you need to post it as separate thread as usual.
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for any new features for future releases, it is useless to post it here - you need to post it as separate thread as usual.
How could I be so stupid… I thought “New Features poll” might be a good place to suggest new features. How dumb of me.
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I absolutely agree with not adding the burn to disk if it’s going to make it slower/fatter.
I personally would like to see a reversed FTP backup utility. I manage allot of websites, and I’m constantly making backups for them. It’ll be nice if I could schedule PA to automatically connect to my site at certain time, and make a backed up “Encrypted” zip on my local machine. I paid money for another tool that does something similar, but not as nice and feature rich as PA.
It seems to me PA has all the key elements already, this feature shouldn’t be too hard to accomplish. I’ll pay extra for this, as long as it’s not another $40.The schedule backup needs some work, It’ll be nice if I could schedule everything from within PA, not having to create the backup scripts, then go into windows scheduler and set it up….I’ve used programs that handle this automatically, so why can’t PA do this, it would add so much worth to yet a wonderful tool. :)
I hope this helps
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I personally would like to see a reversed FTP backup utility. I manage allot of websites, and I’m constantly making backups for them. It’ll be nice if I could schedule PA to automatically connect to my site at certain time, and make a backed up “Encrypted” zip on my local machine. I paid money for another tool that does something similar, but not as nice and feature rich as PA.
Just curious, which other backup tool do you use?
