BETA: PowerArchiver 2023 - 22.10.02

[ardax]

Re: Associations

Blast it, it’s xplorer2 not honoring the registry settings. Explorer itself is fine. I thought I’d checked them in Explorer, but I must not have. My apologies for wasting your time. :o

Re: Shell Extensions

I’ll try purging HKCU\Software\PowerArchiver and see what I get. I’ll post back in a bit.

HKLM\Software\PowerArchiver only contains my name and serial number, because I’m not a fan of having to put it in on every user account.

[ardax]

Tried deleting everything from HKCU\Software\PowerArchiver and unregistering paShlExt.dll. Closed down Explorer (incl Desktop process). Ran PowerArchiver. Still no Shell Extension. Sad panda.

[MikeSubtle]

I also installed a recent version of PowerArchiver on Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit, and I do not have the explorer extensions. I will try some things later, but the exploder right click menu is just some registry entries.

[spwolf]

@MikeSubtle:

I also installed a recent version of PowerArchiver on Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit, and I do not have the explorer extensions. I will try some things later, but the exploder right click menu is just some registry entries.

what folder did you install PowerArchiver in?

thanks,

[MikeSubtle]

I installed it to the default for 64 bit: C:\Program Files (x86)\PowerArchiver

[MikeSubtle]

I found a simple solution, it had to do with Explorer.exe processes still being running when PowerArchiver tries to create the explorer menus. The instructions below will recreate the shell extensions for PowerArchiver in Windows Vista 64 bit.

1. Close all your running Windows / Applications.
2. Run PowerArchiver and keep it open
3. Press CTRL-ALT-DEL
4. Click Start Task Manager
5. In Task Manager, click on the Processes tab, then click on “Image Name” column to sort by name
6. Find all ‘explorer.exe’ and ‘explorer.exe *32’ processes. For each one listed, select it and click the End Process button (or u can right click on each one select End Process). You will notice that the windows TaskBar disappears.
7.Go back to your open PowerArchiver window, click on Options. Then click on Configuration.
8. In the Configuration window, find ‘Shell Extensions’ and click on it.
9. Uncheck ‘Use Explorer Shell Extensions’
10. Hit OK to save that setting.
11. Click Configuration and click on Shell Extensions again.
12. Check the ‘Use Explorer Shell Extensions’
13. Hit OK to save that setting.
14. Close PowerArchiver.
15. Press CTRL-ALT-DEL and select ‘Start Task Manager’
16. At the very top is the “File” menu in Task Manger. Click File, then click “New Task (Run…)”
17. In the Create New Task window, type EXPLORER and then hit OK.
18. You should see the windows TaskBar showing again at the bottom of your screen.
19. Click on My Computer or whatever to get the file explorer running and find a ZIP file. Right clicking on the ZIP file should now show the “Extract To…” “Extract here…” etc etc menu options.

Hazaa!

[MikeSubtle]

bump :)

[spwolf]

did you have PA installed previously? And did you restart after 11.03 installation?

Closing explorer.exe “should” only matter if you had PA installed previously and new shell dll cant replace old one…

if this was your first PA installation, then there is some Windows bug that makes this not work - or some other softwate that creates the issue (it should always work)… I just tested with our Vista x64 and it worked fine…

[spwolf]

p.s. thanks for making it work :-)

[MikeSubtle]

Did a previous version not work with Vista 64? I don’t remember the PA version that I initially installed on this system, but it was a brand new HP computer.
I remember after the first installation, and that the menus weren’t there because that is the first thing that I use after installing PA. I also did install an update recently and rebooted, and they were still not there after the reboot.