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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.
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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?
PA Crash as soon as the installation finish…
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Hi,
I have a MacBook Pro running Parallels v7 with a VM Microsoft XP Pro SP3. I installed PA 2011 and as soon as the installation ended and I click “Finish” with the “Run PA” option on I get the only windows error message asking if I want to send the report.
Does anyone have any idea why PA is not working on the VM? did I miss the prerequisite where it says “do not sun on a VM”?
Thanks,
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Hello,
And you were previously able to install PowerArchiver using previous versions? This started with 2011?Has anything changed in the VM machine in between?
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Hi,
I have a MacBook Pro running Parallels v7 with a VM Microsoft XP Pro SP3. I installed PA 2011 and as soon as the installation ended and I click “Finish” with the “Run PA” option on I get the only windows error message asking if I want to send the report.
Does anyone have any idea why PA is not working on the VM? did I miss the prerequisite where it says “do not sun on a VM”?
Thanks,
from what you sent via support, it looks like you are using PA 2009, not PA 2011?
maybe some mixup with installations?
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If you installed PA 2011 when PA 2009 was running, then it is possible that PA2009 .exe was left until restart, so now you have PA 2009 exe and rest of the files from PA 2011, which is why it would be crashing.
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Hi again and thank you for the fast reply.
The very first time I installed the PA was the newest downloaded directly from the website because I wanted to know if it works in the VM to pay for the upgrade. Since that did not work I try the version I have license for (2009) but none of them worked.
Right now I don’t have any version install in my VM. Any suggestions?
Thanks,
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there should be no problems with VM, we run PA in different virtual machines all the time, we do a lot of our testing like that.
can you clean up your installations, restart VM and install latest version from our website, then send us screenshot of the crash so we can see better whats going on.
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I follow your advice and remove the PA from the VM, then restart it and re install the new downloaded version of PA.
Here are the pictures:
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We have few people running the VM on OS X, and everyone is using vmware and not parallels… did you ever try vmware?
i remember that we tested in parallels few years ago when it came out, but that was probably different version then.
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No I haven’t try vmware, I have a license for Parallels and I would like to keep it this way. If PA does not work with parallels that will be ok I just needed to know if it was worth it for me to upgrade to a new version. WCS I will be using some open source as I did when PA failed, not a big deal.
Thank you for your fast response and help.
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i will try to see if someone has parallels check it out there, our 3 guys in the office used vmware for os x vm.
we dont have official os x testing computers… yet :-)
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Your efforts are appreciated I would prefer to have PA (because I like it) than 7zip or winzip. One thing I like about parallels is “Coherence” and that is a feature that I haven’t see in VMWare.
Thanks,
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I found why it crashes: when I use the VM without the “coherence” feature the PA works!!!
It only crashes when in “coherence” mode!!!
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great!
