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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?
Extract to shared folder triggers User Account Control dialog
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If I copy a PowerArchiver 2012 to a shared network folder (e.g. \LOCAL-WEB\Junk) and then extract it (to the same shared folder) I get a “User Account Control” dialog asking “Do you want this program to make changes to this computer?”. Is this the expected behaviour?
Regards AndyDb
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Just to make sure, you have an archive on a shared folder and when you extract it to that same folder, you get the UAC dialog?
Are you extracting via right click options?
Thanks
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If I copy a PowerArchiver 2012 to a shared network folder (e.g. \LOCAL-WEB\Junk) and then extract it (to the same shared folder) I get a “User Account Control” dialog asking “Do you want this program to make changes to this computer?”. Is this the expected behaviour?
Regards AndyDb
what happens when you copy and past something there in the Explorer, do you get UAC as well?
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I can confirm that this happens for me as well.
I have Windows 8 Enterprise x64 with PowerArchiver 2012 (newest build).
7zip extracts any archive to a mapped or direct-linked share w/o invoking UAC. PA2012, on the other hand, shows errors during the extraction process. I have attempted to extract files straight to a shared folder & drag-drop to the same folder. Both get the UAC prompt & then give an error that I don’t have the correct permissions. I have verified that I have total access to these folders w/o any need for admin privileges or UAC-elevated admin access.
If you would like me to post screenshots, I can.
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I can confirm that this happens for me as well.
I have Windows 8 Enterprise x64 with PowerArchiver 2012 (newest build).
7zip extracts any archive to a mapped or direct-linked share w/o invoking UAC. PA2012, on the other hand, shows errors during the extraction process. I have attempted to extract files straight to a shared folder & drag-drop to the same folder. Both get the UAC prompt & then give an error that I don’t have the correct permissions. I have verified that I have total access to these folders w/o any need for admin privileges or UAC-elevated admin access.
If you would like me to post screenshots, I can.
what format?
drag and drop copies files via Windows Copy function to those folders, are you sure that 7zip actually extracts those files properly there? Since with drag and drop, it is Windows doing copying and you should see Windows native dialogue, right?
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what format?
drag and drop copies files via Windows Copy function to those folders, are you sure that 7zip actually extracts those files properly there? Since with drag and drop, it is Windows doing copying and you should see Windows native dialogue, right?
ZIP
7zip works with both methods. PA2012 gives an error when it attempts to temporarily extract to my user profile temp folder. I’ve tried the Local/Temp & LocalLow/Temp just to make sure it didn’t have anything to do with UAC privilege level. The native Windows copy function & TeraCopy aren’t invoked whatsoever since PA2012 errors out on all counts regardless unfortunately.
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that means that PA cant extract to your temp folder? can it extract same file anywhere else, like on desktop?
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btw are you using latest version of PA? 13.02? thanks :-)
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in any case, it seems that in your case, it is problem with extracting that ZIP, no matter where, not a problem with extracting to network.
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Yes, 13.02
Extracting temp files to current directory or Desktop doesn’t work either. No temp folders as well.
I guess I’m SoL for now. :/
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Yes, 13.02
Extracting temp files to current directory or Desktop doesn’t work either. No temp folders as well.
I guess I’m SoL for now. :/
how big is the file? I am assuming it is just that file that is creating problems? Other zips work fine?
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I tried multiple ZIPs of 10 to 110MBs. No other files work fine with it.
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so nothing works, cant extract any file with PA anywhere basically?
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Well… I tried extracting to a shared folder that has the modify permission as Authenticated User in addition to System & Administrators. This time it worked.
Possible UAC issue on an admin account when extracting to folders that don’t have a broader permission set?
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i am getting confused, I thought it didnt work on desktop or temp?
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It’s because you are confused. :P
It only works on folders that have “Authenticated Users” or “Domain Users” with at least the modify or write permission. It doesn’t work with folders that my own account or administrator accounts with full control permissions have access to.
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maybe Antivirus? What AV do you have?
Otherwise did it work before and stopped working now or?
In general PA does not handle permissions at all, it uses Windows functions. Meaning something is not letting it work with files properly. Maybe you have set it to run under another user or something similar, some compatibility options?
If I understood correctly, it wont even extract files to your desktop? Thats not an option :-). Something is wrong.
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I have Symantec Endpoint Protection 12.1.
Alright… I found out that a non-media related archive can extract to anywhere with PA2012.
The Desktop is a viable extraction point if media isn’t in the archive. I’m quite unsure why this is occurring.
Permission errors w/ UAC still occur when SEP is disabled completely.
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try uninstalling PA, restarting and installing again… if thats not it (some custom setting in Windows for pa.exe), then it is Antivirus blocking extraction and PA thinking it is due to permissions.
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No good. Seems that it was working fine with my old account but since it became corrupted, I’m on a newly created account now.
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when I changed accounts (well Win8 installation), it asked me if I want to make folders readable by changing permissions and voila, Win8 did it all for me… it might have been really fast due to the SSD.
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btw, did you try using ICACLS for changing permissions via CL?
ICACLS “.” /grant “User”:Fwould make it change perssions to full for user named User.
icacls /?
gives help for changing permissions if thats the problem.
