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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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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:
a) PA always issues a UAC prompt to do this!
b) PA always says there are many errors in PA files. -
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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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…
Virtual driver PA 2023-01-28 152607.png
It seems a standard problem with new releases :-)
Can I have a link or can it be fixed. Thank you. CU later -
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.
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In PowerArchiver 2023 22.00.06 configuration, the option labelled “Start PowerArchiver 2023 Starter when my computer starts” seems to be redundant.
I am only allowed to change this option when PA Starter is disabled, and then it seems to be ignored.
When I enable PA Starter this option is forced to the enabled state.
I think it’d be good to remove “Start PowerArchiver 2023 Starter when my computer starts” completely. I’ve always found it confusing having both options.
Added later: However i don’t particularly want to use queue but I do like having the PAStarter icon in my tray area.
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W10 Pro 22H2 - 64 -bit
PA 22.00.06 (PA 2023)
It has been the case with previous versions of PowerArchiver, but I had hoped that the latest might behave differently. Not so, I’m afraid.
I have, for various obscure reasons, created a few .pa archives, mainly in the hope that they will save me some more space. From time to time, I use the “Test” option to check that important archives are OK and uncorrupted.
With every .pa archive I’ve tested, the process runs through OK but then reports that there are errors. This is always the number of files in the archive e.g. if 11 files, then 11 errors reported.
In the .pa, I can:-
preview the files (usually PDF) extract some or all files and look at or use them convert the .pa to a .zip or .zipx archive, which then works fine and tests without errorsIs it the case that the Test routine isn’t designed for .pa archives, or is there another reason? Although the .pa seems to function properly, despite the test reporting errors, I would like to be sure that every .pa is OK and not “broken”.
Some of the .pas are quite old and produced with earlier PA versions (they are truly “archives”). If I extract all the files in the old .pa, create a new, fresh .pa and add back the files to that, then test the new, no errors (at least in the .pa I’ve tried this on) are reported. This would suggest a mismatch between old .pas and newer versions of PA itself.
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See the, supposedly, blank space where the green box is? It’s like that in Modern Light theme too. I can toggle it, but it’s missing text or shouldn’t be there I guess?
Thanks :)
7zip Problem
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:mad: When unzipping a 7zip file (.7z) containing many thousands of files, PowerArchiver just shuts down part way through without extracting all the files. This is really crap. I can’t believe that this was tested. :mad:
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can you post your 7zip file here. as for the comment i think its unfair. Well pa do not create the 7zipp dll that allows compnaies too extract or create 7zip files, so it most proably is a 7zip dll issue. Its a new format and is being developed. Thanks for reporting it but don’t blame pa as they have the best support for it outside of the 7zip file manager… Can the 7zip file manager work ok on your 7zip file if so it could be a adll or pa problem. which program created the 7zip file.
To give no details of how you created it and what version of pa your using and what is contained in the file and not to upload it here for testing is vurtilaly imposible to determin the problem or even how to fix it. Bear this in mind when rubbishing something. What system are you using etc.
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To add to David’s post, PA’s 7-zip support has been tested greatly by the many alpha users. 7-zip is very memory intensive archiving format. Like David said, without more information, it will be hard to help you. It would be helpful if you would post your system specs also.
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Additionally, there are not many error messages incorporated into 7zip. What could have happened would be something like bad memory, bad hard drive, bad motherboard, no space, no space in temp folder, and probably many other things as well :-).
First thing I always suspect is memory since WinXP is behaving bad when it gets out of memory and just shuts off applications randomly and 7zip is using a lot of memory.
I know I tested it with some maximum 12 GB sized file and maximum of 120,000 files inside of it and it all went ok.
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Well guys, I know its not a problem with the 7zip file. How do I know this? Well, its simple really.
The file was created with PA and contains 1,135 files and contains 8 main subdirectories and other subdirectories contained underneath these. Its certainly a LOT less than 120,000 files claimed to be tested. I can extract the files without problems using 7zip v4.13 Beta itself. I’m not even going to bother submitting the 7z file as any newly created archive with lots of files causes the same problem.
I don’t think its memory issues, unless PA is getting its own memory usage stuffed as 7zip manager has no problems at all with extracting that, or any other, file. My machine is a P4 2.67GHz with 512MB RAM. Its running Win XP Pro.
I don’t want to rubbish any program, and I do like PA. But when something like this happens, I don’t think you can say that its well tested. It might well be the 7zip DLL file, but if so, why doesn’t PA incorporate the latest DLL file and issue a new version of PA ASAP? I’ve known about this problem for a while, but I thought that it would be fixed in the latest version, but its been around since 7zip support was implemented.
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Well guys, I know its not a problem with the 7zip file. How do I know this? Well, its simple really.
The file was created with PA and contains 1,135 files and contains 8 main subdirectories and other subdirectories contained underneath these. Its certainly a LOT less than 120,000 files claimed to be tested. I can extract the files without problems using 7zip v4.13 Beta itself. I’m not even going to bother submitting the 7z file as any newly created archive with lots of files causes the same problem.
I don’t think its memory issues, unless PA is getting its own memory usage stuffed as 7zip manager has no problems at all with extracting that, or any other, file. My machine is a P4 2.67GHz with 512MB RAM. Its running Win XP Pro.
I don’t want to rubbish any program, and I do like PA. But when something like this happens, I don’t think you can say that its well tested. It might well be the 7zip DLL file, but if so, why doesn’t PA incorporate the latest DLL file and issue a new version of PA ASAP? I’ve known about this problem for a while, but I thought that it would be fixed in the latest version, but its been around since 7zip support was implemented.
If you have had an issue with that since 7zip was implemented, then you should have reported it and it would have been fixed long time ago.
If you do not report it, it will not be fixed.
Now, you have to give us more information about the file since it certainly works fine here - we had 20 people testing that, and you are the first to report the issue out of more than a million of people who downloaded PA 9.xx so far.
So please send us more info about the file.
thanks,
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- Also - step by step on how to reproduce the issue would be great.
thanks,
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Well, I don’t know how much more info I can give.
Step by step is this: I have maximum compression settings for 7zip archives and right click on a bunch of files and then choose compress.
Have you guys heard of X-Setup Pro? Well, if you have, then install v6.6 and then go into Program Files\X-Setup Pro and compress all the files and subdirectories under that folder into a .7z file. Then try and extract these files to a different folder (c:\test) and you’ll notice that part way through the extraction, PA closes and not all the files have been extracted.
Now that’s about as much detail as I can provide. If you follow these steps, I KNOW you’ll get the problem. I don’t understand how so many people haven’t come across the problem. I find it a little hard to believe, as I’ve had a lot of problems with extracting ANY .7z file that contains a lot of files.
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Well, I don’t know how much more info I can give.
Step by step is this: I have maximum compression settings for 7zip archives and right click on a bunch of files and then choose compress.
Have you guys heard of X-Setup Pro? Well, if you have, then install v6.6 and then go into Program Files\X-Setup Pro and compress all the files and subdirectories under that folder into a .7z file. Then try and extract these files to a different folder (c:\test) and you’ll notice that part way through the extraction, PA closes and not all the files have been extracted.
Now that’s about as much detail as I can provide. If you follow these steps, I KNOW you’ll get the problem. I don’t understand how so many people haven’t come across the problem. I find it a little hard to believe, as I’ve had a lot of problems with extracting ANY .7z file that contains a lot of files.
So you are compressing via shell extensions, are you extracting via them as well? What exact extracting procedure did you use?
I did a quick test with folder with 3,000 files and everything worked fine, please provide more details, such as step by step reproduction of the issue.
thanks!
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this bug is in some 7zip programs like ultimatezip perhaps he used that and then powerarchiver as they look similar and they use a similar setup routine
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this bug is in some 7zip programs like ultimatezip perhaps he used that and then powerarchiver as they look similar and they use a similar setup routine
NO, I did NOT get confused. Besides, it’s pretty damn hard to get confused if you only have PowerArchiver and 7-Zip, and not UltimateZip installed.
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Have you guys heard of X-Setup Pro? Well, if you have, then install v6.6 and then go into Program Files\X-Setup Pro and compress all the files and subdirectories under that folder into a .7z file. Then try and extract these files to a different folder (c:\test) and you’ll notice that part way through the extraction, PA closes and not all the files have been extracted.
I tried doing this (with the latest X-Setup), and had no problems:
PowerArchiver version 7.20
X-Setup Pro version 7.1 (Eval) - this has 1040 files in 8 foldersI performed the archiving and extraction operations using the shell extensions (right mouse click).
I had the 7Zip compression set to ‘Ultra’
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I tried doing this (with the latest X-Setup), and had no problems:
PowerArchiver version 7.20
X-Setup Pro version 7.1 (Eval) - this has 1040 files in 8 foldersI performed the archiving and extraction operations using the shell extensions (right mouse click).
I had the 7Zip compression set to ‘Ultra’
Now I don’t know what to say to that. All I can say is that when I try that same operation, the problem occurs. But it does seem like there are numerous problems with the 7zip.dll file PA is using, so I’m sure I have a valid issue here.
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I’ve been testing the latest version. I 7-zip (ultra) a file with 5 folders and 967 files. Tested the file, tested fine. Uncompressed the file without any problems.
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Now I don’t know what to say to that. All I can say is that when I try that same operation, the problem occurs. But it does seem like there are numerous problems with the 7zip.dll file PA is using, so I’m sure I have a valid issue here.
eh, there were no “numerous” problems with 3.xx 7z dll, not many people reported issues but there were for sure some memory issues that we were able to reproduce.
Maybe on your computer there were more obvious than on others for whatever reason that may be. Only solution was the update to 4.xx dll which required our side of code to be completly rewritten which is why it had to wait for 9.5.
So it does not matter that it works on some computers, we know it didnt work on some for sure, and it works fine in 9.5, so only few days more :-).
closing the thread. thanks!
