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Website ideas

I do like the new website though I would like to have support tap to include in its menu the community forums. As at first I thought you got rid of them until I accidently went to bottom of support form page. It would be nice to have a menu for approved plugins for powerarchiver. I would be willing to test them for you.

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Open source

Could powerarchiver be open sourced as I fear it is going to be lost once you decide to stop development on it.

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BETA: PowerArchiver 2023 - 22.10.02

New version: PowerArchiver 2023 - 22.10.02: Download: https://u.powerarchiver.com/pa2023/powarc221002.exe New build with new signature so shell extensions in Windows will function properly. Thanks everyone for your assistance!

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Missing Icons

Just tried using the Modern (Windows 10) Icon set and seeing a few missing icons in both PowerArchiver Burner and PowerArchiver Encryption screens . They are all there in the Minimalistik icon set and the only difference I can see is the former is blue and the latter grey. In version 22.00.9 [image: 1695053428163-powerarc_2023-09-18_17-00-19.png] [image: 1695053445119-powerarc_2023-09-18_17-01-05.png]

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Missing or ugly SFX-Icon

When I create a SFX-file from a zip (not from a 7-Zip) it happens that there is no icon for the file or a really ugly, pixelated icon. [image: 1563693941255-unbenannt-1.jpg]

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End of Powerarchiver

Powerarchiver is dead no updates to fix bugs no new features, no communication and errors in program update system with scripting errors. Duplicate context menus windows 11 no fixes no updates I declare that this is the last version.

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Windows 11 Shell Extension crash

Copied the Take Command shortcut, changed Target to be wt.exe -p “Take Command” and saved it. Right-clicked to get to properties and Explorer crashed. (wt.exe is the Microsoft Terminal program, which I have installed from the Microsoft Store.) The Target path had changed to: C:\Users{username}\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps\wt.exe -p “Take Command” Created a new shortcut in a Start Menu folder and set the command line to the same, and it crashed the same. Created a new shortcut and set the command line to mspaint.exe (also a Windows Store app) and Explorer crashed on right-click on the shortcut. It appears PowerArchiver shell extensions doesn’t handle Windows Store apps in shortcuts properly. Perhaps it needs better defensive coding around checking the Target of shortcuts, or just ignoring shortcuts altogether. Running PA 22.00.11 on Windows 11 24H2 Build 26100.6584

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Affected by winrar/.rar vulnerability?

Was Power Archiver affected by the WinRAR/.rar vulnerability discovered by ESET researchers recently? Not sure if PA is using their libraries for extraction.

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updates

anything planned for the future or is this software just dead now?

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Ultimate zip was made by powerarchiver

From google search AI Overview Yes, that’s correct. UltimateZip was indeed a product of the same company that developed PowerArchiver, and it was essentially a rebranded version of PowerArchiver. It was discontinued and replaced by PowerArchiver.

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News/Update on PowerArchiver/Connexion in 2024

Hi everyone, some good news about PowerArchiver… I’ve managed to get in touch with the original developer of PowerArchiver, Ivan Petrovic, and he has confirmed that the product is not dead or abandoned, in fact it is still very much alive! There has been a hiatus over the past months for various reasons, but that we should expect to see stuff coming through in the coming months (hopefully the next 2 months).

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BETA PowerArchive 22.00.11 - Windows 11 Context Menu duplicated/additional tier

The Windows 11 context menu for PowerArchiver on normal files (to be compressed, etc.) is now showing multiple tiers with two identical menus. See attached captures of the issue: [image: 1736325038084-screenshot-2025-01-08-082909.png] [image: 1736325038147-screenshot-2025-01-08-082935.png] [image: 1736325038176-screenshot-2025-01-08-082953.png] Edition Windows 11 Pro Version 24H2 OS build 26100.2605

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No Icons for SFX-Archives

Hello! I’ve just created SFX-Archives both from ZIP and 7z-Archives and none has an Icon as it seems. I use the new version 22.00.11. [image: 1729594955632-zwischenablage_10-22-2024_01.jpg]

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Zip extraction from windows 11 by windows

Basically I used powerarchiver context menus to zip up a folder then i used windows 11 own built in zip extractor via the context menu to extract all and this is where it throw up a fault. , I’m using windows 11 . The file that was a problem in the zip that windows 11 could not extract was iva “babe” cotton.jpg I know it has non standard quotes in it. However I had winrar on the computer and tried the exact same method with their context menu compress to zip and then I extracted the file with windows own extract all context menu and it had no problems. This indicates that powerarchiver is doing something different with iva “babe” cotton.jpg compressing to zip. Then I changed iva “babe” cotton.jpg to iva babe cotton.jpg and compressed it with powerarchiver and then tried it with windows 11 extract all and had no problems. It looks like powerarchiver is doing something to that one file that has quotes in it. Please note that powerarchiver extracted both zip files with no problems, only windows built in zip extraction had the fault. Reason I’m letting people know in case they send zip files with special characters in files names to people who do not have powerarchiver. When will a fix be implemented?

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Installer problem

On installing the program I am getting the error message: "Unable to execute file c:\Program Files\PowerArchiver\pashutil.exe CreateProcess failed: code 2 The system cannot find the file specified" This can’t be right! I am using the latest official build of Windows 11

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Button alignment. About window.

Buttons are not properly aligned on About screen. [image: 1726996285086-about-window.png]

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Button alignment on config window.

Buttons not aligned on configuration window. [image: 1726914596335-configbuttons.png]

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BETA: PowerArchiver 2023 - 22.00.10

New version: PowerArchiver 2023 - 22.00.10: Download: https://u.powerarchiver.com/pa2023/powarc220010.exe New build for some bug fixes and issues - full list to come with new update. Please test and see if you have any issues. Thanks everyone for your assistance!

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BETA: PowerArchiver 2023 - 22.00.11

New version: PowerArchiver 2023 - 22.00.11: Download: https://u.powerarchiver.com/pa2023/powarc220011.exe New build for some bug fixes and issues - full list to come with new update. Please test and see if you have any issues. Thanks everyone for your assistance!

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THE SSL CERTIFICATE FOR *.POWERARCHIVER.COM HAS EXPIRED.

@spwolf @Mili THE SSL CERTIFICATE FOR *.POWERARCHIVER.COM HAS EXPIRED.

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Virtual Drive and Windows 8

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I’ve just upgraded Windows 7 to Windows 8 and can no longer create Virtual Drives. I get an error “Check StarPort driver failed! Check if StarPort or StarPort Lite is installed”.

I tried uninstalling and reinstalling PowerArchiver but it hasn’t helped.

Is Windows 8 supported?

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klaatu
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I found the StarPort driver and uninstalled it, and then reinstalled PA and the driver, and all is good now.

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cool - in the future, just delete pavd*.exe in PA folder and check click on Virtual Drive inside PA, it will download and install latest release and problem solved… thank you!
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