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    • Do not include the extension in the file name of the compressed file

      Mario Lopez

      Hello everyone

      I hope that despite my poor control of English, you can understand me.

      When compressing a file, by default the extension is included as part of the file name. for example, if the file is name.pdf, the compressed file will be name_pdf.zip.

      Is there any way for the extensions not to be included in the compressed file name? As much as I have searched I don’t see such an option.

      Thanks for your time

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    • Issues converting a folder of .zip files to .lhz files

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      Hi,

      I’m using Convert Archives on a local folder of .zip files, converting them to .lzh files, and I’m finding that perhaps 1 in 75 files is actually converting and outputting a file. Even then, the .lzh file is incomplete, missing most of the source files.

      The progress bars completes OK, say 75/75 files, but only one .lzh file exists in the output folder.

      It seems to be the same with different source and output folders on both local and USB disk - I can’t see a pattern.

      The files extract and compress (to .lzh) without issue on their own.

      Is there a log file I can check please, to see why PA does not like these files as part of the batch conversion?

      Thanks very much, Rich.

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    • Slow multipart RAR extraction

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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?

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    • Can't create PA files

      B

      Hi -

      I have powerarchiver licenses for powerarchiver standard and toolbox (and also as a result for pro).

      I can successfully register powerarchiver with my pro/toolbox codes, and it unlocks the majority of the content/features. However if I try and create a .pa style archive I get the registration popup saying I need PowerArchiver Pro (if I go to help/about I can verify I have the relevant version and it’s registered to me).

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    • PA2021: Cannot close ZIP Comment

      BigMike

      Hi,

      I can’t close ZIP archive comments. Neither in archive nor in explorer view the “x button” works. I’m testing with PA 20.00.73 (x64 and x86)

      e5f2dd8c-e008-4c26-a364-4b1a0a8f8c69-image.png

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    • Powerarchiver 2021 incorrectly extract tar.xz file

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      Configuration:
      Powerarchiver 2021 20.00.73
      Windows 10 Education 10.0.19042 Build 19042

      When extracting gcc-arm-10.2-2020.11-mingw-w64-i686-arm-none-linux-gnueabihf.tar.xz , Powerarchiver wrongly thinks some .exe files have a length of zero:

      98773b3b-65c0-48fa-8cd4-d081b2e0adee-image.png

      Once extracted:

      D:\Temp\Powerarchiver\gcc-arm-10.2-2020.11-mingw-w64-i686-arm-none-linux-gnueabihf\bin>dir *.exe Volume in drive D is DATA Volume Serial Number is 0E12-BCA2 Directory of D:\Temp\Powerarchiver\gcc-arm-10.2-2020.11-mingw-w64-i686-arm-none-linux-gnueabihf\bin 2020-11-20 07:10 PM 1,391,599 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-addr2line.exe 2020-11-20 07:10 PM 0 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-ar.exe 2020-11-20 07:10 PM 0 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-as.exe 2020-11-20 07:41 PM 3,030,119 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-c++.exe 2020-11-20 07:10 PM 1,389,293 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-c++filt.exe 2020-11-20 07:41 PM 3,027,513 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-cpp.exe 2020-11-20 07:10 PM 4,040,503 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-dwp.exe 2020-11-20 07:10 PM 391,769 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-elfedit.exe 2020-11-20 07:41 PM 0 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-g++.exe 2020-11-20 07:41 PM 3,026,926 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-gcc-10.2.1.exe 2020-11-20 07:41 PM 609,607 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-gcc-ar.exe 2020-11-20 07:41 PM 609,607 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-gcc-nm.exe 2020-11-20 07:41 PM 609,607 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-gcc-ranlib.exe 2020-11-20 07:41 PM 0 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-gcc.exe 2020-11-20 07:41 PM 2,165,533 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-gcov-dump.exe 2020-11-20 07:41 PM 2,343,605 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-gcov-tool.exe 2020-11-20 07:41 PM 2,450,233 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-gcov.exe 2020-11-20 07:54 PM 9,605,899 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-gdb.exe 2020-11-20 07:41 PM 3,028,997 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-gfortran.exe 2020-11-20 07:10 PM 1,412,943 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-gprof.exe 2020-11-20 07:10 PM 0 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-ld.bfd.exe 2020-11-20 07:10 PM 0 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-ld.exe 2020-11-20 07:10 PM 0 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-ld.gold.exe 2020-11-20 07:41 PM 25,546,567 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-lto-dump.exe 2020-11-20 07:10 PM 0 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-nm.exe 2020-11-20 07:10 PM 0 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-objcopy.exe 2020-11-20 07:10 PM 0 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-objdump.exe 2020-11-20 07:10 PM 0 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-ranlib.exe 2020-11-20 07:10 PM 0 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-readelf.exe 2020-11-20 07:10 PM 1,393,083 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-size.exe 2020-11-20 07:10 PM 1,392,464 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-strings.exe 2020-11-20 07:10 PM 0 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-strip.exe 32 File(s) 67,465,867 bytes 0 Dir(s) 1,002,422,431,744 bytes free

      When the same archive is being extracted from a git bash session (after having installed git 2.30.1 for Windows 64 bit version from git-scm.com), the .exe files are extracted as expected:

      xz -k -d gcc-arm-10.2-2020.11-mingw-w64-i686-arm-none-linux-gnueabihf.tar.xz tar xf gcc-arm-10.2-2020.11-mingw-w64-i686-arm-none-linux-gnueabihf.tar cd gcc-arm-10.2-2020.11-mingw-w64-i686-arm-none-linux-gnueabihf/bin ll *.exe -rwxr-xr-x 1 User 197121 1391599 Nov 20 19:10 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-addr2line.exe* -rwxr-xr-x 2 User 197121 1421598 Nov 20 19:10 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-ar.exe* -rwxr-xr-x 2 User 197121 2028927 Nov 20 19:10 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-as.exe* -rwxr-xr-x 2 User 197121 3030119 Nov 20 19:41 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-c++.exe* -rwxr-xr-x 1 User 197121 1389293 Nov 20 19:10 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-c++filt.exe* -rwxr-xr-x 1 User 197121 3027513 Nov 20 19:41 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-cpp.exe* -rwxr-xr-x 1 User 197121 4040503 Nov 20 19:10 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-dwp.exe* -rwxr-xr-x 1 User 197121 391769 Nov 20 19:10 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-elfedit.exe* -rwxr-xr-x 2 User 197121 3030119 Nov 20 19:41 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-g++.exe* -rwxr-xr-x 2 User 197121 3026926 Nov 20 19:41 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-gcc-10.2.1.exe* -rwxr-xr-x 1 User 197121 609607 Nov 20 19:41 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-gcc-ar.exe* -rwxr-xr-x 1 User 197121 609607 Nov 20 19:41 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-gcc-nm.exe* -rwxr-xr-x 1 User 197121 609607 Nov 20 19:41 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-gcc-ranlib.exe* -rwxr-xr-x 2 User 197121 3026926 Nov 20 19:41 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-gcc.exe* -rwxr-xr-x 1 User 197121 2165533 Nov 20 19:41 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-gcov-dump.exe* -rwxr-xr-x 1 User 197121 2343605 Nov 20 19:41 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-gcov-tool.exe* -rwxr-xr-x 1 User 197121 2450233 Nov 20 19:41 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-gcov.exe* -rwxr-xr-x 1 User 197121 9605899 Nov 20 19:54 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-gdb.exe* -rwxr-xr-x 1 User 197121 3028997 Nov 20 19:41 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-gfortran.exe* -rwxr-xr-x 1 User 197121 1412943 Nov 20 19:10 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-gprof.exe* -rwxr-xr-x 4 User 197121 2572182 Nov 20 19:10 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-ld.bfd.exe* -rwxr-xr-x 4 User 197121 2572182 Nov 20 19:10 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-ld.exe* -rwxr-xr-x 2 User 197121 4550029 Nov 20 19:10 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-ld.gold.exe* -rwxr-xr-x 1 User 197121 25546567 Nov 20 19:41 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-lto-dump.exe* -rwxr-xr-x 2 User 197121 1404945 Nov 20 19:10 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-nm.exe* -rwxr-xr-x 2 User 197121 1531656 Nov 20 19:10 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-objcopy.exe* -rwxr-xr-x 2 User 197121 1991350 Nov 20 19:10 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-objdump.exe* -rwxr-xr-x 2 User 197121 1421598 Nov 20 19:10 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-ranlib.exe* -rwxr-xr-x 2 User 197121 1163376 Nov 20 19:10 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-readelf.exe* -rwxr-xr-x 1 User 197121 1393083 Nov 20 19:10 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-size.exe* -rwxr-xr-x 1 User 197121 1392464 Nov 20 19:10 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-strings.exe* -rwxr-xr-x 2 User 197121 1531656 Nov 20 19:10 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-strip.exe*

      The same archive file does extract properly under a native Linux Ubuntu 20.04 system, or under Windows 10 using the WSL2 Linux subsystem using xz and tar.

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    • Log waite for bugs to be fixed

      D

      Its a long time since people reported bugs like converter bug still no fix yet

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    • Is PowerArchiver 2021 stable?

      BigMike

      Hi,

      I just saw, that on the Website, PowerArchiver 2021 20.00.73 is advertised as latest version. (Actually, the downloaded version says, it’s 20.00.70 in the about dialog)
      But it still comes with the “red icon set” for preview versions and has some known unfixed bugs, as I read here.

      Is it sufficiently stable to be used on production systems?

      Kind regards

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    • File Browser: Operations don't trigger UAC

      BigMike

      This happens in Archive and Explorer Mode:

      Navigate to a folder, which is UAC protected (for example C:\Program Files) Right click -> New -> Folder (or any other item)
      => Nothing happens

      Expected behaviour: UAC prompt is triggered and a new folder (or file) will be created

      PowerArchiver 19.00.57

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    • Bugs I found and wanted to share with the team.

      B

      Hi I recently bought PowerArchiver and found some bugs and issues that I hit testing some of the features out.

      If you are doing a backup and on the compression options screen its default is compression format is PA with no option to change disk spanning. If you change to 7-zip you can change disk spanning. If you change the disk spanning then move back to PA format the field for disk spanning disables but the option stays set to what you changed it to. When you do a backup it will use PA with files spanning but PowerArchiver says that its not a valid format when you open it. If PA can’t really do file spanning then this screen is allowing it.

      I have attached an image where the progress bar is in the middle of the CD/DVD/BD Tools screen.

      alt text

      I have a 7-Zip file I created using the backup tools doing an increment backup. It opens and extracts just fine but if you using the Test option PowerArchiver locks up. Link to file: Backup-2021-02-05-20-35-36 TEST LOCKUP.7z

      On any Zip/PA/7-Zip process the pause and cancel buttons do not work. You have to hard kill the entire application to get out.

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    • Does PA supports Intel's zlib?

      G

      There would be many of us with Intel Processors.

      and they have their own optimized zlib algorithm, which can result in more efficiency if used combined with their hardware processor.

      Reference:
      https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/white-papers/zlib-compression-whitepaper-copy.pdf

      Can we get the same Functionality Under Hardware Acceleration Feature?

      Zlib is not the only feature that intel has included with their processor, there’s many, which if combined can result in efficient and better compression ratios.

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    • PA Batch Archive post completion error

      G

      Hi,

      After the batch archiving is complete, and if I click on whitespace of the PA app, I get this error.

      PA Batch.png

      I did check for ongoing process and ensured no archives were corrupt, It seems like activity did complete successfully but the error is shown for no reason, and only after clicking the whitespace.

      Please see if this can be removed.

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    • PA and conflict with Antivirus

      G

      I’m using the Kaspersky Total Security.

      I have configured PA as exclusion as followed:

      PA Exclusion.png

      and also is set us trusted application

      PA Trusted Application.png

      Scenario:

      My Antivirus likes to scan for everything, and it’s safeguarding behavior is to prevent the access to the file until the file is properly scanned for.

      The issue:

      PA when losses the access to file, it is stuck, consumes Resources, and never completes the process or throws any error

      Recommendation:
      PAStarter should also work as PAMonitor:
      There should be a monitoring process, at least if I’m using queuing feature, that should check for never ending compression processes and terminate them so the queue can be little bit automated.

      Also,
      There should be multiple attempts at retrying if PA loses access to or is denied, instead of having to see process was stuck for longer duration.

      Or, better, save the parameters I used for keeping the files in compression, and automatically restart the whole compression process after termination the same, of same folders and files set, this should happen in case if compression was stuck.

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    • Using the Queue Feature affects Compression Ratio negatively

      G

      If you use Queue Feature, you are not saving on space, you are just squeezing less.

      Here’s explaination:

      https://youtu.be/XcxG2wxyink

      I did test the same on multiple files, and of different types.

      It does have large difference for each large file you are trying to squeeze.

      Folders with multiple files, just have no benefits if you use Queue Feature

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    • Problems with Color-scheme after upgrade to build 73

      A

      Hello!
      I am using the portable version of PA2021. After switching from build 58 to 73 I have problems with the color-scheme:
      While 58 behaves like expected and showed everything in light or dark colors according to the settings, 73 always shows the lower part of the window in dark colors, no matter whether I select automatic, light or dark.
      This happens on a clean installation of 73 as well as on an update from build 58. I have attached two images generated on the same machine at the same time with the same settings. The upper shows build 73, the lower 58. Is it a bug or some changed setting I miss?
      Thanks for help!
      A.Borque

      PA2021_73.png PA2021_58.png

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    • Command line

      L

      Hello,

      PowerArchiver Command Line 7 support file greater than 2 Go ?

      Thanks

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    • PA shows incorrect archive properties

      G

      If you have tabbed archive browsing(reuse same window for all archive opening)
      and if you open two archives, and right click on older one to view properties it will only show of the recent archive that was opened, on all tabs/archives

      upgraded to 20.0.73

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    • Can I activate PowerArchiver on 2 devices with 1 license?

      2

      Hi.

      I currently own the PowerArchiver Select - lifetime free upgrades and support for PowerArchiver Toolbox English license.

      This license is active on 1 device. Does the license allow me to activate PowerArchiver on a second device that I own? Or do I need a separate license for that?

      Thank you ! :)

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    • No updates for portable version?

      A

      Hello!
      While the installable version of PA 2021 has already received two updates and is at version 20.0.73 the portable version still remains at the initially released build 58. Are there plans to update that version, too?
      Thanks for a reply!

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    • PowerArchiver shell extensions possibly crashing windows explorer.exe

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      I’ve been dealing with an intermittent explorer.exe crash for 5-6 years now. It happens randomly and will usually occur multiple times within a single session of an hour or two on my machine when manipulating files through Windows Explorer. explorer.exe is the only thing that ever crashes, so it’s not hardware IMO. I’ve done all hardware diagnostics and RAM is good. I’ve even swapped out motherboards with different brand and even the exact same one and it still crashes. sfc /scannow indicates system files are fine. I’ve done multiple reinstalls of the OS with no positive results. This crashing has happened on Windows 7 64-bit and Windows 10 64-bit. It seemed to get more frequent with Windows 10 after upgrading last year. I’ve also been using PowerArchiver throughout that time period (upgrading over time with new releases). I recently disabled all non-Microsoft extensions via ShellExView and saw no crashes for about 10 days, which is really unusual. I turned back them all back on after 10 days and saw another explorer.exe crash within the hour. So I disabled all 32-bit extensions and saw another crash. Following that I disabled all the PowerArchiver shell extensions and haven’t seen a crash after a day of heavy usage manipulating files within Windows Explorer, which doesn’t happen for me. The crash dumps I’ve captured don’t seem to indicate PowerArchiver is involved but I have a hunch it has something do with PowerArchiver shell extensions. The system even feels smoother with the PA extensions disabled. Windows 10 reliability monitor always has the same type of problem:

      Description Faulting Application Path: C:\WINDOWS\explorer.exe Problem signature Problem Event Name: BEX64 Application Name: explorer.exe Application Version: 10.0.17134.165 Application Timestamp: 4031a9f8 Fault Module Name: StackHash_e78e Fault Module Version: 0.0.0.0 Fault Module Timestamp: 00000000 Exception Offset: PCH_8D_FROM_ntdll+0x000000000009AA54 Exception Code: c0000005 Exception Data: 0000000000000008 OS Version: 10.0.17134.2.0.0.256.48 Locale ID: 1033 Additional Information 1: e78e Additional Information 2: e78e327659b46c9a0c6916396b253cbf Additional Information 3: cebf Additional Information 4: cebf952c5db535ae7880488aafce55d9 Extra information about the problem Bucket ID: 1a57e4e784fbc735c231c68bd88581a9 (1311047270476906921)

      I know this is a very nebulous explanation but is there any way to link this up to PA shell extensions as the cause? I can provide the crash dumps and additional information if necessary.

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    Slow opening / Slow unpacking start / Slow closing

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      swenak last edited by

      Hi, I have latest version 11.71 and I have problem with speed of opening PA and with starting unpacking via context menu.

      When I open PA directly, or opening ZIP file, it is about 3-5 seconds to open PA (and windows is not opened in one step, first I can see menus and then window wrame). When I unpacking zip file (few files in archive, or only one file), it is about 1 second to open window and start unpacking. Closing PA is slowly too (1second, not instant, first is cleared files list, next is closed window). Version 2009 was faster.

      With other applications I dont have problems, PA is slowly opened than Word, Excel, Outlook 2007, Firefox, etc.

      I use Win7 Pro 32, 4GB RAM DDR3, SSD drive, CPU Intel C2D 1.86Ghz, WinAERO is ON.

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        spwolf conexware last edited by

        what antivirus are you using?

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          swenak @spwolf last edited by

          I dont use any online antivirus.

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          • spwolf
            spwolf conexware last edited by

            how do you mean online? You mean you have no antivirus at all?

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              swenak @spwolf last edited by

              I mean, that I dont have antivirus, that still scan files, that are opened, edite, saved or so, this can slowing down file operation performance. For on demand scaning I use ESET NOD32, but this problems I have after clear installation of Win7Pro. I dont have virus.

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              • spwolf
                spwolf conexware last edited by

                Try deleting your HKCU\Software\PowerArchiver key and not registering PowerArchiver again… just run it like that, default… is it any faster?

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                  swenak @spwolf last edited by

                  Deleted PowerArchiver and PowerArchiverInt. Speed I mean is same (now asking me for registration, so it is not “exact”).

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                  • spwolf
                    spwolf conexware last edited by

                    it should not be that slow, what version of nod32 are you using, antivirus or smartsecurity?

                    we had an issue year ago when KAV was slowing down PA exit even when PA was whitelisted and on access scanner was not running.

                    PA 2011 should be a bit faster, but not sure if it will solve your problem since we dont see it being so slow here.

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                      swenak @spwolf last edited by

                      I use NOD32 (nod SS), but portable, so, is not installed.

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                      • spwolf
                        spwolf conexware last edited by

                        we can send you PA2011 alpha to see if it is better, might be…

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                          gan @spwolf last edited by

                          I always been having the same problems as described by swenak using PA. It’a a lot slower to open the application than other similar applications. Like swenak also said Word, Excel and other applications i would except to be slower is faster to launch. Using the toolbar instead of the ribbons make it a bit faster.

                          My computer is Intel 2GHz Extreme Quad Core, 8gb RAM and Intel SSD so the slowness is acceptable. My Second computer with a slower CPU, 4gb or RAM and a HDD PA is annoyingly slow.

                          -gan

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                            swenak @gan last edited by

                            Hi, OK, please, give me link and I can try it. If I can help with some registry export, or other informations, I will help you.

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                            • spwolf
                              spwolf conexware @gan last edited by

                              @gan:

                              I always been having the same problems as described by swenak using PA. It’a a lot slower to open the application than other similar applications. Like swenak also said Word, Excel and other applications i would except to be slower is faster to launch. Using the toolbar instead of the ribbons make it a bit faster.

                              My computer is Intel 2GHz Extreme Quad Core, 8gb RAM and Intel SSD so the slowness is acceptable. My Second computer with a slower CPU, 4gb or RAM and a HDD PA is annoyingly slow.

                              -gan

                              you mean it is fast on your fast computer, much slower on your slow? If you see differences in different modes, such as when you have classic toolbar without explorer mode, then you should also be able to see improvement in PA 2011.

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                                gan @spwolf last edited by

                                @spwolf:

                                you mean it is fast on your fast computer, much slower on your slow? If you see differences in different modes, such as when you have classic toolbar without explorer mode, then you should also be able to see improvement in PA 2011.

                                No i mean slow it’s on the fast computer, but even worse of the slower computer. On the fast computer the slowness isn’t that big of a problem, but it would be crazy if the requirements for such a program is a top quad core CPU, 8gb ram and a SSD. The slower computer is still a decent computer, but with a CPU that is a bit older, less RAM and without a SSD it’s slower of course. I’m glad to hear there are improvements in PA 2011 with regards to the speed.

                                -gan

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                                • spwolf
                                  spwolf conexware last edited by

                                  depends on how fast is it on your fast computer? Also make sure you turn off explorer view and modern toolbar to make it faster. If it has to check files on the hard-drive, obviously it is slower.

                                  so how fast does it load? On my old laptop it does it under 1.5s, with PA 2010.

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                                    gan @spwolf last edited by

                                    On the fast computer it takes about 3s for PA to start. I don’t have PA installed on the fast computer at the moment so did this check some time ago. There might have been some minor updates in the meantime to make powerarchiver a bit faster. WinRAR and WinZip is less than a second on the fast computer so hard to time and Excel is less than 2s. On the slower computer it takes about 5s to start powerarchiver and i’m using the current version there.

                                    I always noticed that PA been the slowest to open of the compression software i been using. Since i receive a lot of compressed documents this affect me more than how fast the compression engine is. For the compression i find PA to be really fast compared to others. I also see what is already described where part of the GUI seems to load after the main frame open while WinZip/WinRAR open in a snap.

                                    And yes turning of those features help a bit, but i really would like to use them. I use explorer view and the ribbon for WinZip as well without any issues. I also use explorer view for WinRAR even if WinRAR do not have ribbons.

                                    -gan

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                                      Mili conexware last edited by

                                      do you have a floppy disk installed on this computer with windows 7?
                                      Things you are describing sound familiar to a situation I had.
                                      When installed W7, for some reason it had a floppy disk registered and was showing it in Windows Explorer.
                                      Consequently, it slowed down PowerArchvier as PA had to check it on various occasions, which slowed it down.
                                      I disabled the floppy drive in Windows and it didn’t show at all, now PA is very fast.

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                                        Socrates Banned @Mili last edited by

                                        I had the same experience. Once I disabled the floppy (which I never use anyway) I was fine.

                                        Unless my memory serves me ill (a distinct possibility) this did not happen when I started using Win7. The phenomenon appeared only after a PA update 2-3 months ago.

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                                          gan @Socrates last edited by

                                          For me one of the computers is a laptop and do not have a floppy drive at all. The other one is a desktop and might have a floppy….actully not sure since i never use floppy and if it’s there i never used it.

                                          -gan

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                                            Mili conexware last edited by

                                            Gan,
                                            regardless if you physically have a floppy or not, please check if windows 7 is detecting/showing a floppy drive on your system.
                                            You can do that by simply opening Windows Explorer and taking a look at all of your drives listed, is there a floppy drive listed there?(regardless if you actually have one or not)

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                                              gan @Mili last edited by

                                              Thank you Mili, i checked both the desktop and laptop, but neither of them had a floppy icon under computer. I also checked device manager and did select to show hidden devices, but no floppy listed there as well.

                                              gan

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                                                swenak @gan last edited by

                                                Hi,

                                                I dont have flopy drive, I disable SD card slot, I switch to standard view of PA and here is video (is not public, only for you).

                                                http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZMeVHuG45U

                                                Peter

                                                PS: Yes, it is latest Air and NO, it is not virtualisation, it is native using of W7 on MBA and NO, I dont use dual boot, only W7.

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                                                  spwolf conexware @swenak last edited by

                                                  well I can tell you now that PA 2011 will be indeed slightly faster for you - for instance, that small “pause” when in shell, will be gone because we improved our keycheck by 0.3-0.5 seconds. So in your test, shell should be “instant” in the future, when everything is cached.

                                                  Main PA will be also faster by same 0.3-0.5 seconds as well, although it might be less noticeable because overall it is slower to open than shell.

                                                  Slowness is not due to what people usually think - skins or some other fancy features like backup, burner, ftp or any of that. We load all of that dynamically, so nothing is loaded during startup.

                                                  Where “slowness” comes from is due to the fact that we have to use custom controls in order to add full unicode support to application (which is essential), and thats where major difference is between PA 2007 for instance and any version after that.

                                                  For instance, PA 2007 will load in 1 sec, PA 2010 in 1.6s and PA 2011 in 1.3 seconds, on the same computer, and it is all due to that unicode support which requires slower controls.

                                                  After we are done with 2011, we will start process of migrating to newer version of Delphi, which should bring speed back to PA 2007 levels because unicode is built in and we can get rid of some custom controls, but that requires a huge amount of work and might bring some bugs of it own, since we have to rewrite some major parts of PowerArchiver.

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                                                    spwolf conexware @swenak last edited by

                                                    p.s. that SSD certainly speeds things up!

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                                                      spwolf conexware last edited by

                                                      email us at support at conexware dot com to get access to alpha which you can test…

                                                      As I said, it is 0.3s-0.5s speed up on very fast computers, and possible a lot of speed up on VERY old systems, but I wonder if it will be noticed on average computer.

                                                      Shell is definetly noticable, since there is not slight delay that is there in PA 2010.

                                                      On my own computer, 1.45s for PA 2011, 1.8s for PA 2010, with AV running.

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