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Converting an archive to .zip (using both the “Deflate (.zip, compatible)” and “Store” compression methods) always creates a .zipx file instead.
pa-convert-zip-1.jpg
pa-convert-zip-2.jpgUsing the “Store” method sometimes creates a .zip file; I have seen it happen just now, but I cannot reproduce it.
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Good morning,
I have been using all compression programs for over 20 years, I have always found Winrar very easy to use when I create a self-extracting archive, even 7-zip is simple, “right click” and “create self-extracting archive”, because on powerarchiver it must be like this confused ?
It doesn’t just create the archive, it opens a page where I have to select the file again, what kind of archive, which folder to create it, etc … you should learn from your competitors how to make life easier! -
Hi,
So refer this screenshot:
image_2020-12-30_115129.png
The properties panel that you see, is what I tried to compress, using PA, with following settigs:
Extreme Strong optimize
https://forums.powerarchiver.com/assets/uploads/files/1609079025475-image_2020-12-27_195344.pngThe process was stuck at 0% with no progress for over 8 Hours:
PA.png
Then the usual, clicking will make it go not responding.
So, I could not get the files compressed using PA.
I tried 7zip, and it worked, so that’s 1 issue.
PA shows incorrect original(before compression) size of total contents.
Refer the first screenshot.
folder’s size is shown correctly in 7ZIP
but not in powerarc.this happens with every archive, whether they are compressed in PA or not, whether it has only 1 file, or multiple files inside multiple directory.
Neither does the archive property panel shows original content’s size.
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Hi,
So my rig is as below:
CPU: Intel® Core™ i7-4720HQ CPU @ 2.60GHz (Turbo 3.7GHz)
RAM: 16 Gigs DDR3
Samsung SSD 860 EVO
Windows 10 pro for workstations x64, freshly installed on 22nd Dec 2020, and updated.
PA freshly downloaded on same day, so it’s 2021 x.x.62 versionPA Stuck.png
Issue and reproduction:
If you start a compression, and if it’s mid way anywhere or even started, and you try to cancel it, the window will get stuck there, another click or key press will make the window not responding, then, and more will make windows to collect logs for crash, and the process will be terminated by windowsOn the other hand.
If the process is mid way, and if you try to pause it, the compression, CPU utilization, RAM usage will stay/increase as if the compression if still going on, the whole process will take it’s course, instead of doing what we clicked on.
So, both pause and cancel buttons are useless.
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I recently installed PA 2021. But the PowerArchiver Starter, for my backups, keeps running at high CPU usage, I have to keep killing it, its running about 46% constantly.
I have Windows 10 Pro, 20H2, build 19042.662
Any ideas would be helpful.
Thanks
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Just installed 2021 v20.00.63
Now, when I add to queue, with or without using always use queue.
The powerarc starter opens up in notification bar.
and that’s it, no matter how many files I add to queue, no compression will start.
I also cannot double click or right click the icon.
If i end task for this, and disable queuing, compression works fine, just that I have to manually start individual tasks.
it’s quite ironic that you guys took whole year to fix one issue, in this versions, which completely broke the queuing feature.
Did you guys test it before releasing?
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Hi,
You can obtain the original file from here:
https://pcsupport.lenovo.com/in/en/products/laptops-and-netbooks/lenovo-y-series-laptops/y50-70-notebook-lenovo/80ej/59428436/cb32343883/downloads/driver-list/component?name=Power%20Management
For Lenovo Y50-70 win 7 x64 bit, power management, get lenovo energy management
Run the exe it will extract the installable drivers to C:\drivers
I tried to compress the whole folder using PA using following parameters:
Extreme, strong optimize.
image_2020-12-27_195344.pngThis resulted in negative compression.
However same file is compressed by 7zip alpha, with positive compression:
PA Negative compression.png
I understand that there are different algorithms, parameters used, and totally different software with unique sets of logics programmed, but see if compression algo can be optimized for such files.
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Over the last few months, I’ve been trying to track down the cause of a hanging bug in PA.
I have found a reliable test case (on my computer at least).I am trying to extract the folders/files from: https://github.com/codereader/DarkRadiant/releases/download/2.9.0/windeps.7z
By selecting both folders, then dragging over to a Windows Explorer window on another HDD.
I’m not sure what causes this but this just doesn’t do anything, progress bar appears, but nothing happens.
PA shows about 5% CPU utilization and I’ve left this going all night and it never does anything.
It doesn’t always happen, but this morning this is reliably failing for me.
The folder I’m dragging to is under Git source control, but this also happens when dragging into other folders also, but not always, sometimes it works.If I do a regular extraction and use the dialog box to select the location to extract to, that always works.
Windows 10 64bit Pro 20H2 (19042.630)
Ryzen 3900X
Anti Virus is built in Windows Security only.I captured a dump of the running process if that helps: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WLzHG_fOAMtzGMMFLHlIElnQXhsoPyYd/view?usp=sharing
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I have just installed 2021, but seems to have similar issues to 2019. If you move the app between differen monitors (with different resolutions) the app does not automatically adjust accordingly, so on one monitor I have the app is too big for the screen, whereas on another monitor it only takes up a small fraction of the screen.
This was worse with 2019, where the fonts were totally screwed up, making the app unusable. This seems better in 2021, but still not working properly. -
Hi.
I have noticed after updating PowerArchiver through PatchBeam to 20.00.63, after the installer finished and I recheck for updates, it still tells me that I have version 20.00.62 installed and prompts to download 20.00.63 again.
This also happens when I install from the offline setup file powarc200063.exe ( https://powerarchiverdl.cachefly.net/2021/powarc200063.exe ). It still installs version 20.00.62 and the process goes over and over again.
Also, in PowerArchiver About screen I see version 20.00.62 but in Programs and Features in Windows 10, version 20.00.63 is displayed as being installed.
Can someone check and see if they experience similar behavior?
Thank you!
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When I double click on a file within an archive the file gets temporarily extracted to being opened with the external program. When I now go back to the windows explorer and want to open another archive while the file from the first archive is still being extraceted, a new window of power archiver opens and immediatly closes. It opens and closes the new window repeatedly until the extraction of the file from the first archive is completed.
I use the option that power archiver opens a new tab when another archive is opened.
This happend with version 20.00.60. I wanted to update it to 20.00.63 as shown in the update window but it just updates to 20.00.62. It still shows that 20.00.63 is available but never seem to update to that version. The bug still exists though.
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I have some large zip files (~ 40 MB) with a lot of html files. When I double click on one of them in the archive, it takes a long time (eg 20 sec) for the file to be extracted and opened in the browser.
I am using version 19.00.59.
I discovered that the root cause of the problem is that all the files in the archive are extracted to the temporary dir before the selected file is launched.
It does not appear to happen with other file types (such as pdf) nor when dragging a html file into the browser.
I think I recall this issue being raised by someone else, but could not find it.
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On PowerArchiver 2021 (20.00.60) and windows 10, Both options in the windows explorer shell extension, “Compress to …zip” and “Compress to …zipx” create a .zipx file. ¿Its this intended?
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My slow ring still reads as 19.00.59… will it ever offer an update to 2021 or is that something I must do manually?
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Hello there,
I was installing-uninstalling and reinstalling PA 2021 due to another bug when I noticed a minor popup “bug” if it is considered a bug, regarding application association with recommended formats.
During PA installation you get to choose those options
Installation 1.pngI have ticked Associate PA with recommended formats
Installation completes and when you open PA the defult theme is Windows Ribbon.
When I changed it to Classic Theme, PA restarts for changes to take effect and then I get the below popup (Sorry I have a greek system)
It asks: Do you want PA to associate with recommended formats now?
Options: Associate for all users and Never show again.
Popup 2.pngI could swear that once I was changing themes and icons all the time to see which one I prefered and also toggling PA.exe to run as admin and windows compatibility mode and got this popup twice or tripple times.
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If I the Configuration > View > Standard > Disable Tabs option is checked, when double clicking inside archives on files supported by the internal viewer (PDF, JPEG etc.) they are opened in associated application rather than on a new tab in PA internal viewer, which is expected behavior.
Next, if the Configuration > Miscellaneous > General > Reuse PA Windows is unchecked, when double clicking on archives associated with PA in Explorer they are opened in new PA instance when there is another one already running, which is expected behavior.
But when Configuration > View > Standard > Disable Tabs option is checked AND Configuration > Miscellaneous > General > Reuse PA Windows is unchecked, when double clicking inside archives on archive files they are opened in the same instance of PA with no way to get back to the parent archive. I would expect, that when the user doesn’t want to use tabs AND want to use multiple PA instances, that in such case double clicking on archive located inside another archive, the second one would open in a new PA window. -
I’ve made the sections of the output bold to indicate where the typo is.
Version 7 output
Commands:a : add files to archive (default)
u : update files to archive
h : freshen files in archive
m : move files to archive (files only)
d : delete files from archiver : recurse subfolders
Version 9 output…
p|P : store relative Pathnames|store full Pathnames
PP : store full Pathnames including drive
c[0,1,2,10,11,13,15,17,19,l,p,w,b,d,z] : set compression level
(0 - store; 1 - normal ; 2 - maximal)
(10 - store, 11 - super fast, 13 - fast, 15 - normal, 17 - max, 19 - ultra
(l - use LZMA, p - use PPMd, w - use WavPack, b - use BZIP2, d - use Deflate
(z - use optimized compression method based on file exstension)
g : create Solid archive (7Z format only)
Commands:a : add files to archive (default)
u : update files to archive
h : freshen files in archive
m : move files to archive (files only)
d : delete files from archiver : recurse subfolders
P : store full Pathnames
PP : store full Pathnames including drive
p : store relative Pathnames
c[0,1,2,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,u,l,p,w,b,d,z] : set compression level
(0 - store; 1 - normal ; 2 - maximal)
(10 - store, 11 - super fast, 13 - fast, 15 - normal, 17 - max, 19 - ultra
(l - use LZMA, p - use PPMd, w - use WavPack, b - use BZIP2, d - use Deflate
(o - use LZMA2
(u - use pLZMA4, f - use ZSTD, k - use PPMd_sh, e - use Deflate64
(z - use optimized strong compression method based on file exstension)
(x - use optimized fast compression method based on file exstension)
(m<filters|methods> - use custom set of filters and methods for .PA archive
y[r|b|d|x|p|d] - filters reflate, bcj2, x64flt, rep, delta
ypc<size> - custom rep c size
ypm<size> - custom rep mem size
yrx<size> - custom reflate zlib level (1-9)
yt{x} - number of threads
ya - debug mode
mt : set multithreading on
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I’ve found a bug when extracting files from a 7ZIP file, specifically when you tell PowerArchiver to extract only some files and folders from it. This is where the bug exists. You can tell PowerArchiver to extract only certain files but then it proceeds to extract the whole file and not just what you wanted.
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Sorry if I’m asking this in the wrong place.
Can Powerarchiver create images of entire drives (e.g. C: system drive) to create drive image backups?
Thanks,
Tim
PA 14.00.18 load time
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The first time PA loads, either directly (I load the program) or via a right-click action seems to be quite long. Long enough for me to think I must have done something wrong (e.g. not double-clicked fast enough) so I do it again and end up with two or more instances. PA 2012 was definitely faster in loading.
DrT
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nothing changed in shell extensions, while main program did get new skin… what OS, any AV?
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I’ve been working on the 2013 version since alpha on Windows XP, 7 and 8 all different specs and brands, I can’t say i’ve noticed any such delay.
Certainly sounds odd!
Have you tried Uninstalling PowerArchiver, and installing from scratch and see if it continues to show the same issue?
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Hi,
I did install and uninstall anyway. The installer seems to do an uninstall too rather than an install over the top.
OS Win 7 x64, AV is ESET v6. I have just added PA as an exclusion to my AV and startup seemed faster. I’ll keep an eye on this.
Thanks Guys,
DrT
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was it like 0.5s slower than now, or 5s slower?
if it is substantially slower, we can maybe contact ESET and see about them “fixing” it in the future.
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With Webroot, it takes 2 to 2½ seconds, at least if PA Starter is already loaded.
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It’s even loads slower on windows 8.1 preview :). I’m still having issue with cab support recompress issue after you click next on my drivers you get error box pop up you have do it on windows 8 pro 64bit. It’s been two weeks since last contact in email about the subject I’m thinking calling you guys live on phone on Wed.
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It’s even loads slower on windows 8.1 preview :). I’m still having issue with cab support recompress issue after you click next on my drivers you get error box pop up you have do it on windows 8 pro 64bit. It’s been two weeks since last contact in email about the subject I’m thinking calling you guys live on phone on Wed.
there is no difference between 8 and 8.1 in loading, i run 8.1 personally… however what I had happen with 8.1 is itunes loading one cpu core to 100% in the background due to some bug of theirs, i had to uninstall it. If it is not something like that, then it could be AV… but otherwise, there is no difference when it comes to different Windows, compared to older version.
As to the cab, update that thread… i don’t see what we can do though, it is due to Windows apparently, not us. For some reason their cabinet.dll wont work for your purpose in Windows x64.
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Well I’m going have do it dual boot with windows 7x home edition 64 then it works fine under there. :( oh well It could be windows 8.1 preview making it slow loading up.
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was it like 0.5s slower than now, or 5s slower?
if it is substantially slower, we can maybe contact ESET and see about them “fixing” it in the future.
[My reply to this seems to have disappeared into the ether!]
It was A LOT slower. Do you want me to run some timings for you to present to ESET?
DrT
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that would be great… last time I think ESET did something similar back in 2006 or so, and when we reported it, they managed to “fix” it.
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that would be great… last time I think ESET did something similar back in 2006 or so, and when we reported it, they managed to “fix” it.
Hmm. First run with PA NOT exceluded in ESET -24 secs (the sort of long loads I have been experiencing.
Next run with ESET exceluded from testing was 3 secs. From then on, ALL loads were 3 secs whether excluded or not in ESET. I have noticed the long loads in the past. PC completely rebooted between PA load tests.Do you gave a debug tracing build I can run to provide further info?
DrT
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we cant debug anything on our side - ESET checks it first time, and after that result is cached.
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i can confirm that when i launched 2013, eset service went to 50% cpu (one core 100%) and it took around 10s for PA to start…. i just tried it out.
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are you sure it happened all the time?
It seems to take long time once, then it stores its crc and never checks it again.but yeah, if you run it first time, it seems like everything gets blocked and nod32 takes up 60%-70% of cpu.
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Since I have plenty of various pa.exe’s on my computer, i could easily reproduce this with Nod32… it is very very slow. I have no idea how AVs really work and what they do, but it seemed as if was checking something online.
In any case, I have reported this to Nod32 team. I hope they fix it. While it doesnt happen after the first time (at least it is not super slow), it looks pretty bad the first time you run it. People will think it is due to PowerArchiver even though we have nothing to do with it.
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ok, soe ESET responded that this will be “fixed” tomorrow…
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Excellent…nice to know I was not suffering another senior moment.
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i think i will need to send them all versions in the future, unless this changes… let me know if you notice anything else with AVs. Once it decides to scan the file, it is really annoying :-).
I forgot to turn it on and went to test some compression and it was really really slow… so it turned out it went to scan few files out of selected list :-)
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Think I’m going to have to lewave PA excluded permanently. Just has a > 20 second first load with the latest.20 beta.
It’s no biggie as I trust PA and only download it from the official site. I could always scan it manually.
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Think I’m going to have to lewave PA excluded permanently. Just has a > 20 second first load with the latest.20 beta.
It’s no biggie as I trust PA and only download it from the official site. I could always scan it manually.
i uninstalled it from my computer, it was making everything slow… i will email them again, because it seems that i will have to for each new release.
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Hi
Sorry to jump in on my first post, I have similar problems with very slow startup (20-30 secs) of PowerAchiver, after that first start it’s fine. It occurs on both of my PC’s using XP and Win7 64bit which both have ESET installed.
Since reading this post I have emailed ESET support (been annoying at times).Peter
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Hi again
Good support from ESET (replied quick)
added the exclusion for PA and it works!.
which I added C:\Program Files\PowerArchiver*.*From ESET Support:
please make sure that you have the latest version of ESET software installed: http://kb.eset.com/esetkb/index?page=content&id=SOLN2788
NOTE: The latest version of ESET software is version 6
If you need to UPGRADE to the latest version, which is FREE with a current license, please refer to:
[To exclude a program or file please complete the following:
For Windows XP (Vista and 7 is very similar).
1. Click on “Start”.
2. Click on “All Programs”.
3. Click on “ESET”.
4. Click on “ESET NOD32 Antivirus” or “ESET Smart Security”.
5. Click on the 2nd “ESET NOD32 Antivirus” or “ESET Smart Security”, this will open up the ESET Control Center.
6. Click on “Setup”.
7. Click on “Enter advanced setup…”
8. Expand “Computer”.
9. Expand “Antivirus and Antispyware”.
10. Click on “Exclusions”.
11. Click on “Add” and then navigate to the folder or file that you would like to exclude.Please Note: You need to enter the exclusions like the following filename*.*
It is vital to have the wildcards at the end. e.g. c:\test*.*Peter](http://kb.eset.com/esetkb/index?page=content&id=SOLN2788)
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Welcome to the forum Peter…:)
Many thanks for taking the time to post the useful feedback from ESET.
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Yes, thanks Peter!
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Hope this solves some issues relating to slow startup (first time start)
for some as it fixed my problem. It was so annoying at times clicking to open
a file and it would just hang. By that time you already clicked on it 2 to 3 times which then ran multiple instances of PA.Peter
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Hope this solves some issues relating to slow startup (first time start)
for some as it fixed my problem. It was so annoying at times clicking to open
a file and it would just hang. By that time you already clicked on it 2 to 3 times which then ran multiple instances of PA.Peter
we will keep emailing them to add new version to their whitelist so you dont have to… it is very annoying, most people wont know to do 11. steps required.
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I have to say no p[erformance issues with ESET other than this one. Computer just as fast, if not moreso than Kaspersky - left Kaspersky as their mods arrogant and power mad in the extreme as well as being often wrong.
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I have to say no p[erformance issues with ESET other than this one. Computer just as fast, if not moreso than Kaspersky - left Kaspersky as their mods arrogant and power mad in the extreme as well as being often wrong.[/QUOTE]
i am so happy I dont use any :-).For me NOD32 was pretty intrusive (compared to nothing)… I have had BD 2013 for testing, as we sell it, and it wasnt as intrusive, but as I am my own master on my own computer, i dont use any AVs in general (i dont download exe’s from internet, except major applications).
I guess it is not easy for them to fight off all the evil :-)
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OT: I wish I had the cajones to run without AV. I am very naughty on the internet and do not get much of a peep from my AVs. I am much more worried about rogue web sites that infect PCs. Infected exe’s are sooo yesterday LOL.
Both KAV and ESET do not slow down the machine at all, but KAV would not accept exceptions without nagging about them. No probs with ESET. I do not like the AVs whose interfaces have gaudy colours and do not allow detailed configuration - i.e. they are designed for noobs.
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we got access to their whitelist ftp, so we will have to upload each new release there and it will be auto-magically whitelisted by ESET.
So let us know if you continue noticing anything :-)
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I am still having to list it in the exclusions. I have PA 14.00.20 and had not run it at all since booting earlier. I removed the exclusion from ESET and had to wait approx 15-20 secs for the window to appear. Has this latest version been (supposedly) whitelisted yet?
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I am still having to list it in the exclusions. I have PA 14.00.20 and had not run it at all since booting earlier. I removed the exclusion from ESET and had to wait approx 15-20 secs for the window to appear. Has this latest version been (supposedly) whitelisted yet?
it probably takes them a little bit, like a day, we uploaded 2013 b4 and 2012 official today.
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do let us know if this changes in next day or two, as it should. I uninstalled it myself.
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Seems to be okay today. I have deleted the exclusion and will monitor the situation.
Regards
DrT
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Seems to be okay today. I have deleted the exclusion and will monitor the situation.
Regards
DrT
ok, please do. thanks!
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I’m having load time issues on windows 8.1 preview let you know takes about 45 secs to load. I’m on OCZ vertex 3 90gig with 16gig of ram.
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I’m having load time issues on windows 8.1 preview let you know takes about 45 secs to load. I’m on OCZ vertex 3 90gig with 16gig of ram.
thats pretty crazy… any antivirus?
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Nope It’s not Norton 360 no beta I was even testing new norton 360 v21 it still did that. I used Norton 360 all the time. There was no issue with 2012 version. I’m on AMD system.
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I just test with windows 7 on my backup 1 TB hard drive normal it loads fine. Really quick. Even with norton 360 installed there also. spwolf’s if you want I can make recording video of the loading issue on my desktop? Sometime this week.
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Nope It’s not Norton 360 no beta I was even testing new norton 360 v21 it still did that. I used Norton 360 all the time. There was no issue with 2012 version. I’m on AMD system.
not sure if i understood - do you have Norton installed or not?
There is no reason for PA to load that slow… I have Windows 8.1 myself and it is exactly the same as Windows 8 when it comes to startup. It has to be something blocking it like Norton or ESET in this thread.
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Yes Norton is install same issue also without install. It just loads slow. You on ssd?
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Yes Norton is install same issue also without install. It just loads slow. You on ssd?
yeah but it loads in 1.8s total… probably a lot slower computer than yours as it is laptop… i will check with 360.
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My pc specs with turbo up to 3.8ghz on air :). http://valid.canardpc.com/2891262
