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It would be nice to be able to at least extract Zstandard archives.
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I prefer to use light themes, and when, for example, I have set up my main archive screen to be Classic Toolbar with Blizzard Blue, files in the archive are highlighted (no checkboxes, full row select) with white text on grey background. They are easy to see .
However, in the Add screens, the files and folders are black type upon a pale blue background, which is not so readily visible, especially when highlighting separate files in lists with Ctrl/Click for addition. It would be ideal if the backgrounds to files in these screens could be set to mimic the highlighting of those in the main archive window.
I have tried experimenting with different themes and settings for skins, toolbars and so forth, but, unless I’ve missed something, none seem to give me the effect I want.
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Re: Windows 11 Context menu support
It would really make me happy if you put .BH in the Windows 11 context menu. I know it’s in the “More Options” section, but this would make it more convenient. Don’t know why the option to add it to the menu isn’t there in the first place. P-L-E-A-S-E ??? :) Thanks You!
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Any chance of including this format in a future release?
https://github.com/FS-make-simple/paq9a
Exceptional compression levels.
Thanks.
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In Windows 11 a new explorer context menu is introduced.
The “old” context menu may still be accessed through an additional mouse click, to reach the PowerArchiver context menu functions, but this isn’t comfortable at all.Could you add PowerArchiver items to the first level (and ideally disable the Windows native ZIP entry)
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I’m surprised that OneDrive for Business isn’t supported. I can’t link my company’s OneDrive account, but a personal (free) account works fine.
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Hi,
I’d like to propose an improvement for password protected archives.
Actual behavior is:
If I open an archive, which is password protected and make a typo in the password dialog, I’ll get the message, that the password was wrong and I end up with an empty window. I need to reopen the archive to be able to enter the password again.Improved behavior:
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Hello!
I know I have been asking for this feature some time ago, but as nothing has changed let me ask again:
The ZIPX-format offers an algorithm, that compresses JPEG-files by about 20-30%. Please add compression (packing) support for this in ZIPX-archives to Powerarchiver. Extraction of JPEGs packed into ZIPX by this algorithm is already supported by Powerarchiver for a long time, so it should not be difficult? Or is it a licensing problem?
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Hi,
I’d like to suggest, that the correct archive type is (always) selected, when adding files by drag & drop to an archive.
This is already happening if the archive has the correct extension. For example, if I’m adding files to test.zip, zip will be selected. If I’m adding files to test.7z, 7z will be selected as format in “Add dialog”.
But this won’t be working, if the archive has not the “right” extension.
So XPI files (Firefox addons) for example are ZIP files. PowerArchiver opens them without any problems, but if I try to add file by drag & drop, PowerArchiver won’t auto select “ZIP”, but use the last selected archive format, while PowerArchiver already knows, that I’m trying to add files to a ZIP. -
I love this, only there is one problem. The UAC elevation feature does not extend to Mount Image option in the add-on software PA provided. It is most annoying whenever I am on highest UAC settings and I mount an ISO, every time I open and create a virtual drive UAC appears. I also do not want to completely disable UAC.
Is adding UAC elevation for mount image feature possible?
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The now defunct Bulkzip had Nanozip (nz) as an option this would be great to have for compatibility with my .nz files, so I don’t have to install Bulkzip separately.
Improve start-up/responsiveness of PA
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Hi there,
I’m using PA since the “freeware days” and I’m still satisfied with it in terms of functionality (using 2012 Pro at the moment).
But I noticed that it’s startup is sooo slow compared e.g. to WinRAR. I have a Quad-Core CPU and a SSD as system drive and PA still needs serveral seconds to open up and start it’s work (no matter if I open the application or want to extract something). I just doesn’t feel responsive. Hard to put into words, sorry.
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Is it faster for you if you use it in Classic interface?
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I tried PA with and without classic interface. About 2 1/2 seconds on a 5 year old machine.
WinRar load in 1 1/2 seconds.
I will glad survive the extra second to get PA’s array of tools.
Maybe, though, my system is unusual.
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Hi there,
I’m using PA since the “freeware days” and I’m still satisfied with it in terms of functionality (using 2012 Pro at the moment).
But I noticed that it’s startup is sooo slow compared e.g. to WinRAR. I have a Quad-Core CPU and a SSD as system drive and PA still needs serveral seconds to open up and start it’s work (no matter if I open the application or want to extract something). I just doesn’t feel responsive. Hard to put into words, sorry.
what about shell extensions?
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But I noticed that it’s startup is sooo slow compared e.g. to WinRAR. I have a Quad-Core CPU and a SSD as system drive and PA still needs serveral seconds to open up and start it’s work
Agreed! 4-5 seconds to load on Intel i7 860, Win 7 x64 and 8GB. In use it is fine, but the long initial loading time is a puzzle - 3x longer than Word 2010 :eek:.
DrT
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Do you have rxplorer view or something? Hows the 2nd load and shell? How long until window shows up?
It loads 2 seconds on my laptop with no ss
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Do you have rxplorer view or something? Hows the 2nd load and shell? How long until window shows up?
It loads 2 seconds on my laptop with no ss
Approx 2 secs on subsequent loading, times to when main window appears. Only this loading is slow, in use and with shell extns it is fine.
DrT
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Approx 2 secs on subsequent loading, times to when main window appears. Only this loading is slow, in use and with shell extns it is fine.
DrT
so it is only initial load a bit slow? we always work on that, it is one of the things constantly on our mind… you might not see it because we keep adding features and each one slows down a bit, so we speed up bringing it back still not great :-).
For every major release lots of work is done in this area… and we keep evaluating options.
At least operations themselves are super duper fast… new 13.01 will bring another 15% to unrar speed as well.
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so it is only initial load a bit slow?
Yes. Slow enough to think I may have mis-clicked the icon (I have it pinned on my task bar).
Regards
DrT
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What would be interesting idea to have is a PA Safe Mode.
Which starts PA up without the Ribbon in very classic format and strips down on Visuals system components.
Safe mode would continue to allow users to do the core basics of PA such as Compress, open and extract archives. But other things like FTP, Backup virtual driver take a back end role unless they are specifically selected.
This would mean users can instantly use archives with minimal restrictions. if they want more “advanced” features then they would start PA in Normal mode.
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@Sir:
What would be interesting idea to have is a PA Safe Mode.
Which starts PA up without the Ribbon in very classic format and strips down on Visuals system components.
Safe mode would continue to allow users to do the core basics of PA such as Compress, open and extract archives. But other things like FTP, Backup virtual driver take a back end role unless they are specifically selected.
This would mean users can instantly use archives with minimal restrictions. if they want more “advanced” features then they would start PA in Normal mode.
components are not loaded unless needed so it is always in “safe mode”… only option would be PA compiled/built/distributed without all those features.
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I dont know how PA is written… but surely that would be pritty dam hard to do wouldnt it?
But it’s possibly a good idea too… I mean with certain installers like Office, or Adobe etc the user can install the “Basic”, “Custom” or “Full” on basic it has the shell and when a user selects say “FTP” it then prompts them to install that particular feature. If they never intend to use FTP then they leave it.
Maybe… just maybe PA could adapt their installer and program to work in the same fasion.
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@Sir:
I dont know how PA is written… but surely that would be pritty dam hard to do wouldnt it?
But it’s possibly a good idea too… I mean with certain installers like Office, or Adobe etc the user can install the “Basic”, “Custom” or “Full” on basic it has the shell and when a user selects say “FTP” it then prompts them to install that particular feature. If they never intend to use FTP then they leave it.
Maybe… just maybe PA could adapt their installer and program to work in the same fasion.
speed has nothing to do with Burner, FTP or Backup, since they are all on the outside of PowerArchiver.
You can delete all of PowerArchiver dll’s from Program Files\PowerArchiver (except for one that checks license) and PA will start the same as always - so there are no external dependencies.It is the interface thats loaded at startup as well as our compression engine. Nothing else as we moved everything outside in the past few years.
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I wonder if slow starts can be caused by what antivirus people are using.
Never seen any problem myself but I did see a post on Avast forums a little while ago, where someone mentioned the new version of Avast was causing a slower start-up of PA and after they had added PA to their exclusion list the problem disappeared.
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I notice a lag in switching of the ribbons. I see the panes move from right to left and back…
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I wonder if slow starts can be caused by what antivirus people are using.
By that logic, all apps would be similarly affected, they are not.
DrT
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By that logic, all apps would be similarly affected, they are not.
DrT
I wouldn’t be too sure of that.
As an example I use XMPlay for playing my audio files. I had a problem with it starting up very slowly and added it to my exclusion list and after that it started instantly.Nothing else on my computer starts slowly. ;)
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In that case I would say it is the fault of the errant app. One can only blame the AV if all apps are affected. So if PA is the only app adversely affected by a user’s AV, it is for PA to fix and one must ask why only that app is affected.
DrT
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Odd thing is that there was no issue with starting XMPlay until Avast 6 came along, so I would guess that something changed in the way Avast handles things somehow.
But this has gone OT so I’ll stop discussing it here. :)
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PA was always slower to start and fast in operation (fastest!), just question of how slow is it for someone and how much they use main PA vs shell, as shell is instant…
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what about having simpler application, complementary to PA that doesnt have all the full features (Classic interface, no Pro/Tbx features) but will be super fast to load and of course multicore compression just like PA itself?
Or do you guys want to have your cake and eat it? :-)
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PA was always slower to start and fast in operation (fastest!), just question of how slow is it for someone and how much they use main PA vs shell, as shell is instant…
As a non-programmer, I am just surprised that the issue exists on an Intel i7-860, Win 7 x64, 8GB memory, fast H/Ds and a Nvidia 560Ti card. Could the interface, if that is where the slowdown is, use some graphics hardware acceleration features?
Cheers
DrT
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As a non-programmer, I am just surprised that the issue exists on an Intel i7-860, Win 7 x64, 8GB memory, fast H/Ds and a Nvidia 560Ti card. Could the interface, if that is where the slowdown is, use some graphics hardware acceleration features?
Cheers
DrT
its not that simple, things are loaded sequentially… p.s. on my new SSD, it is between 1 and 2 seconds max.
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its not that simple, things are loaded sequentially… p.s. on my new SSD, it is between 1 and 2 seconds max.
That long LOL!
Cheers
DrT
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