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PA2023 Win10, (same problem with older releases but never reported)
PA Soft is installed on partition D. (exclusive for installed progs)
Then I created on my partition G: the folders as configured in PA Settings ‘Folders’.0fcf1b09-1b91-4b74-b250-f8cf908a3348-Ashampoo_Snap_maandag 20 maart 2023_11h54m34s.png
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The problem : Any activity on PA is saved in these folders…
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I am still using Powerarchiver 2022 and it does not show pdf markups in the preview. Is there a setting to get version 2022 to show pdf markups in the preview? If not, does this work in version 2023?
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The question that I have about PA archives is what happens if say ConeXware, as a company, dies in the future? What happens to any PA files that are created today? Can these files be decompressed with a copy of a PowerArchiver that can no longer phone home to the mothership thus can’t be registered or activated?
I mean, I can understand that new PA files wouldn’t be able to be created if the program isn’t registered but what about an un-registered copy because well, the question that I posed above?
It’s questions like this that make me not want to store anything really valuable in PA files out of fear that I, at some point in the future, might lose access to said data inside those files. OK, 7ZIP might not be able to compress as heavily as PA but at least it’s open source and any 7ZIP files will still be able to be read and decompressed ten, twenty, or fifty years from now.
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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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Is this a known problem? Is there a fix coming? This is a primary reason I buy PA.
I’ve tried both methods I know to extract multiple zips at the same time. 1) Multi Extract feature in the GUI. 2) In Windows File Explorer, select multiple zips, right click, use PA context menu to Extract or Extract To…
Is there a setting I missed? Or maybe it really is processing in parallel, but I can’t detect it? Nothing tells me in the Processes in Task Manager that multiple PA extracts are running. And my CPU, memory and disk resources do not look like a lot of extracts are running.
I’m using PA 2022 Standard version 21.00.18 on Windows 11 Pro version 10.0.22621 Build 22621.
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In the latest version of PA, on W11 (latest build/SP) when you try to use the first level context menu - NOTHING HAPPENS (particularly when you do this from Downloads or Documents folders) - however I noticed that it DOES WORK when you use the context menu from the Desktop. Going to the second level context menu does work however.
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Is the version Preview 2023 also considered to be tested by the testteam ? In the past we got messages in the forum for testing out version x.x, to be downloaded by fastring, or I missed the one for 2023. (I discovered 2023 on the official web…)
CU, Pirrbe.
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PA 2023 22.00.08
Long time no seeing. So I start up the new year with a first problem : the virtual driver cannot be installed. Reason : it is missing in the Fast Ring PatchBeam Update Service…
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It seems a standard problem with new releases :-)
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Hi there, been a user since 13 years now and in past whenever I had a problem or question I could email, however since 3 weeks it seems like everybody is dead?
Anyway, as kind of a last resort, I post this email a 4th time but in this forum instead now, in the hope for help:
"This is the 3rd time I am emailing you guys as I am missing a working code for the preview of Power Archiver 2023Can you please help me? I am a 13 years lasting customer of yours, and I am shocked thatr for whatever reason my support tickets are ignored now, why?
thanks in advance!
All the best!
Joerg" -
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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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:
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When the function for testing archives is invoked via the shell context menu (PowerArchiver > Test) then all the files in the archive get extracted to the current folder.
The test dialog reports as many errors as there are files in the archive but it fails to give any hint as to which files are supposed to be erroneous or what the nature of the problem might be. Comparing the extracted files to the originals shows no differences at all.
The .7z in question was produced with maximised compression settings in 7zip (taking forever but resulting in smaller archives than .7z produced by PowerArchiver with maximised settings). Therefore I wanted to see whether PowerArchiver can at least test .7z that it produced itself. Hence I had PowerArchiver convert a .pa with the same contents to .7z. There weren’t any errors reported but the resulting .7z contained fewer than half of the files contained in the .pa (137 of 366), so I scratched that test.
Performance is abysmal when testing via the context menu (e.g. almost 2 minutes for testing a .7z that 7zip tests in 4 seconds), but that is most likely due to the fact that the extracted files are written to disk. Testing the same .7z in the PowerArchiver GUI takes only 8 seconds but causes the mysterious appearance of a UAC dialog, as reported elsewhere.
The testing function is vital because PowerArchiver has a history of producing archives that it cannot unpack without errors or that do not conform to the respective file format standards (e.g. ZIP) so that other programs report them as erroneous.
The point of creating archives is that the files in them will most likely have to be extracted at some point. If the extraction cannot be guaranteed to produce correct results then the whole program is absolutely pointless. Actually, worse than pointless - it causes data loss and hence damage.
PA loads quickly..but drive lights stay on?!
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This is my current annoyance with PA 2010. It loads quickly but the drive lights stay on a while after the load up and I can’t use PA2010 quickly enough.
For example…I click a zip archive and open PA. It loads fast…but for some reason the drive lights to the computer stays on and I can’t access the zip archive until the drive lights die down. What’s going on?
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maybe antivirus scanning on demand?
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I have antivirus turned off.
on demand scanning sometimes cant be turned off until you uninstall your AV.
How long does it take? There is no reason for PA to just open and stand there…there has to be something going on. Try reseting defaults and see what happens then.
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on demand scanning sometimes cant be turned off until you uninstall your AV.
How long does it take? There is no reason for PA to just open and stand there…there has to be something going on. Try reseting defaults and see what happens then.
Just to give you an indication something is up…I open up my “old” copy of winzip 11 and it flies. I open the same archive in PA2010 (opens quickly…but I can’t do anything because drive lights are on and need to wait until they die down). I did this after resetting the defaults.
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Just to give you an indication something is up…I open up my “old” copy of winzip 11 and it flies. I open the same archive in PA2010 (opens quickly…but I can’t do anything because drive lights are on and need to wait until they die down). I did this after resetting the defaults.
is PA doing anything at all? Is it looking like it is doing anything? How long does it last?
Try uninstalling your Antivirus quickly and see what happens then.
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You didn’t read my reply carefully. I opened up Winzip and I had no problems launching the program to read the archive. So it’s not the antivirus. If it was the antivirus…I would have experienced the same problem with Winzip as I’m having with PA.
So the problem is not the antivirus program. So I’m not buying the argument I need to uninstall the antivirus program to see if PA will load quickly and allow me to work on archives without the headache of the drive lights staying on so long.
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You didn’t read my reply carefully. I opened up Winzip and I had no problems launching the program to read the archive. So it’s not the antivirus. If it was the antivirus…I would have experienced the same problem with Winzip as I’m having with PA.
So the problem is not the antivirus program. So I’m not buying the argument I need to uninstall the antivirus program to see if PA will load quickly and allow me to work on archives without the headache of the drive lights staying on so long.
antivirus programs sometimes whitelist applications like that.
now you need to tell me if PA looks like it is doing anything. You can also open up task manager and see what is causing the delay.
How long is the delay?
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I think I found the problem. It’s PA constantly checking to see if it’s the primary source of zip archives. I selected the option to make PA the primary shell for zip archives. But even after I select this item…I am constantly seeing this message after a few reboots of PA. So why am I getting this message all the time? I think this is related to the PA drive light issue.
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I think I found the problem. It’s PA constantly checking to see if it’s the primary source of zip archives. I selected the option to make PA the primary shell for zip archives. But even after I select this item…I am constantly seeing this message after a few reboots of PA. So why am I getting this message all the time? I think this is related to the PA drive light issue.
it means something that you selected is not associated by PA anymore. But i cant see how can that slowdown PA. It is just extremly quick registry check.
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it means something that you selected is not associated by PA anymore. But i cant see how can that slowdown PA. It is just extremly quick registry check.
You call 30 seconds a quick registry check?! That’s how long the drive lights are on…I counted.
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You call 30 seconds a quick registry check?! That’s how long the drive lights are on…I counted.
registry check is not causing the delay. you can disable it by going to Options> Config> File Formats and unchecking Show Associate…… option (first one at the top.
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registry check is not causing the delay. you can disable it by going to Options> Config> File Formats and unchecking Show Associate…… option (first one at the top.
Okay…I did that so I’ll keep watching if this problem still occurs.
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Okay…I did that so I’ll keep watching if this problem still occurs.
i am pretty sure it will… it would be helpful if you explain more how often delay happens, what happens with PA when there is delay and does it only happen with certain archives or all (big ones maybe?)
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i am pretty sure it will… it would be helpful if you explain more how often delay happens, what happens with PA when there is delay and does it only happen with certain archives or all (big ones maybe?)
The archives I’m opening are ones downloaded off the web. Since I associated PA with the archives…I’m seeing this delay between the time PA opens and the time I need to wait for the drive lights to die down before I can access the archive.
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The archives I’m opening are ones downloaded off the web. Since I associated PA with the archives…I’m seeing this delay between the time PA opens and the time I need to wait for the drive lights to die down before I can access the archive.
next time save it to the disk and then open it (dont use Open but use Save). See if that makes any difference.
