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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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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!
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I installed powarc-macos20001.dmg and I am attempting to create a password protected zip file. When I create the zip in the UI it doesn’t write the file to the destination folder. No error message is displayed. The PA app has full folder permission. I’m new to Mac, but have been running PA on Windows for a long time.
Will there be a new version of the Mac version soon?
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Hi! I came across an issue when I tried to uninstall PowerArch 2013. I got an error “The specified account already exists” which broke the process. I got the same error when I tried to install the current version, without uninstalling the previous one.
So I can’t uninstall and I can’t install PowerArchiver. Any suggestions? OS Windows 8.1 x64.Dariusz
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Where are various settings store . . . e.g. ftp, etc.
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should the image have a white background?
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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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Powerarchiver 2022
Right-click and select Encrypt on a folder does not work.
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The online update feature within the program suggests there is a later version than the ‘.17’ available on the web site. But clicking either download or update just reinstalls version .17.
Either there isn’t an update OR
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Hi Dear,
Cannot login and request resend license code for my fd
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Hi,
When you click on the Buy Now link, you come across four tabs - Home or Work, Enterprise Unlimited, Educational Discount, & Gift Discount.
What is the difference between a licence purchased via Gift Discount and a Home/Work licence?
Also, how can I renew the PowerArchiver Select plan a year after the purchase? Will it remind me automatically?
Best,
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I’m running PA 21.00.17 64-bit on a 64-bit i7 desktop with W10 Pro, latest version. This 32gb of installed RAM.
As I use the PA pbs system for a number of scheduled archiving operations throughout the day, PA Starter is set to load and run at system startup.
In the course of trying to identify some causes of slowness and bottlenecks in other processes, I notice that PA Starter (PAS) always runs at between 11% and 15% of CPU (see screenshot), usually at about 12-13%. This is by far the highest demanding process on the system, as shown by Task Manager. In Performance Monitor, PAS Average CPU is 8.32, with every other process at less that 1 i.e. in decimal places only.
Task Manager also shows PAS Power Usage as “Very High”, and is the only process shown thus.
I have looked again at the information about PAS at https://wiki.powerarchiver.com/en:help:details:powerarchiver_starter, which was last modified in 2016. The article states a low memory usage for PAS of 784k, which is fair enough, but it is the large CPU overhead which is of concern.
It is of course possible to change the PAS priority, but this has no effect on CPU overhead.
However, is it possible to change PAS, which is required only at intervals to initiate PA scheduled tasks, from consuming so much system resource for every moment of the day?
PA Starter.jpg
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I’m experiencing very slow extraction speed of multipart RAR files. For the first part the extraction is super fast but when PA reaches the part2.rar the extraction from there on gets super slow. PA needed for a 6,3 GB multipart archive 30 minutes to extract. I tested then with another program and it just took 70 seconds. I had this slow extraction speed with PA for quite a long time and I always thought that is maybe because of a high compression rate that the extraction would take longer. But it seems that only PA gets that slow.
I have lots of multipart archives that are 10+ GB and with PA it would be really time consuming. Is there any solution to this?
7z shell extensions
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if i slect a filke say 8 mb tand click on 7z name7z for example it starts to work then slows right down after about 58 %
however if i select 7z + options and then click on the 7zi file is created ok no problems
the file i’m archiving is a setup.eng (avast antivirus setup file)
I’m using windows 98 se
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does it just slow down and completes or does it hang there? If it completes, is it the same size as in + options or? It is possible that using it directly activates the ultra option which is slower, while + option uses something else?
thanks,
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it slows down and hangs i nbever got further than 58%
the + option uses normal compression and works fine
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Have you tried compressing it with the + option and then using all the avaliable compression levels ?
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it slows down and hangs i nbever got further than 58%
the + option uses normal compression and works fine
Try using + Option and Ultra compression - what happens then?
thanks,
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p.s. I could not reproduce this with my copy of Avast setup
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does pa use ultra for its shell extensions as normal work fine from the _option
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When checking Options / Configuration / compression profiles / create new
the “profile1” for 7z is set to Ultra so this may be the default which is used in shell context menu.The help file says
When you first install PowerArchiver, it will create a default compression profile for each format. These profiles can not be deleted and are always saved in PowerArchiver.
What are the settings for these default profiles that PA creates?
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Default seetings are maximum always (Ultra in this case), but David should check first if Ultra works from + Options, before any conclusions are made.
For me, Avast setup in question works fine at all 7zip settings…
thanks,
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Because PA uses the 7zip DLL (ie. 7z.dll) for compression/decompression of 7-zip archives, another thing to try would be to see if the 7-zip archiver itself has any problems compressing Avast.
If it does then it is most likely a problem with the 7zip DLL, otherwise it is likely to be a problem with the way PA integrates with 7z.dll.
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ultra is the problem would it not be best to have normal used instaed of ultra if the user wants ultra to add it themselves.
