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PA2023 Win10, (same problem with older releases but never reported)
PA Soft is installed on partition D. (exclusive for installed progs)
Then I created on my partition G: the folders as configured in PA Settings ‘Folders’.0fcf1b09-1b91-4b74-b250-f8cf908a3348-Ashampoo_Snap_maandag 20 maart 2023_11h54m34s.png
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The problem : Any activity on PA is saved in these folders…
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I am still using Powerarchiver 2022 and it does not show pdf markups in the preview. Is there a setting to get version 2022 to show pdf markups in the preview? If not, does this work in version 2023?
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The question that I have about PA archives is what happens if say ConeXware, as a company, dies in the future? What happens to any PA files that are created today? Can these files be decompressed with a copy of a PowerArchiver that can no longer phone home to the mothership thus can’t be registered or activated?
I mean, I can understand that new PA files wouldn’t be able to be created if the program isn’t registered but what about an un-registered copy because well, the question that I posed above?
It’s questions like this that make me not want to store anything really valuable in PA files out of fear that I, at some point in the future, might lose access to said data inside those files. OK, 7ZIP might not be able to compress as heavily as PA but at least it’s open source and any 7ZIP files will still be able to be read and decompressed ten, twenty, or fifty years from now.
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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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Is this a known problem? Is there a fix coming? This is a primary reason I buy PA.
I’ve tried both methods I know to extract multiple zips at the same time. 1) Multi Extract feature in the GUI. 2) In Windows File Explorer, select multiple zips, right click, use PA context menu to Extract or Extract To…
Is there a setting I missed? Or maybe it really is processing in parallel, but I can’t detect it? Nothing tells me in the Processes in Task Manager that multiple PA extracts are running. And my CPU, memory and disk resources do not look like a lot of extracts are running.
I’m using PA 2022 Standard version 21.00.18 on Windows 11 Pro version 10.0.22621 Build 22621.
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In the latest version of PA, on W11 (latest build/SP) when you try to use the first level context menu - NOTHING HAPPENS (particularly when you do this from Downloads or Documents folders) - however I noticed that it DOES WORK when you use the context menu from the Desktop. Going to the second level context menu does work however.
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Is the version Preview 2023 also considered to be tested by the testteam ? In the past we got messages in the forum for testing out version x.x, to be downloaded by fastring, or I missed the one for 2023. (I discovered 2023 on the official web…)
CU, Pirrbe.
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PA 2023 22.00.08
Long time no seeing. So I start up the new year with a first problem : the virtual driver cannot be installed. Reason : it is missing in the Fast Ring PatchBeam Update Service…
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It seems a standard problem with new releases :-)
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Hi there, been a user since 13 years now and in past whenever I had a problem or question I could email, however since 3 weeks it seems like everybody is dead?
Anyway, as kind of a last resort, I post this email a 4th time but in this forum instead now, in the hope for help:
"This is the 3rd time I am emailing you guys as I am missing a working code for the preview of Power Archiver 2023Can you please help me? I am a 13 years lasting customer of yours, and I am shocked thatr for whatever reason my support tickets are ignored now, why?
thanks in advance!
All the best!
Joerg" -
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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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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When the function for testing archives is invoked via the shell context menu (PowerArchiver > Test) then all the files in the archive get extracted to the current folder.
The test dialog reports as many errors as there are files in the archive but it fails to give any hint as to which files are supposed to be erroneous or what the nature of the problem might be. Comparing the extracted files to the originals shows no differences at all.
The .7z in question was produced with maximised compression settings in 7zip (taking forever but resulting in smaller archives than .7z produced by PowerArchiver with maximised settings). Therefore I wanted to see whether PowerArchiver can at least test .7z that it produced itself. Hence I had PowerArchiver convert a .pa with the same contents to .7z. There weren’t any errors reported but the resulting .7z contained fewer than half of the files contained in the .pa (137 of 366), so I scratched that test.
Performance is abysmal when testing via the context menu (e.g. almost 2 minutes for testing a .7z that 7zip tests in 4 seconds), but that is most likely due to the fact that the extracted files are written to disk. Testing the same .7z in the PowerArchiver GUI takes only 8 seconds but causes the mysterious appearance of a UAC dialog, as reported elsewhere.
The testing function is vital because PowerArchiver has a history of producing archives that it cannot unpack without errors or that do not conform to the respective file format standards (e.g. ZIP) so that other programs report them as erroneous.
The point of creating archives is that the files in them will most likely have to be extracted at some point. If the extraction cannot be guaranteed to produce correct results then the whole program is absolutely pointless. Actually, worse than pointless - it causes data loss and hence damage.
Test tool in shell extensions
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Having dealt with my own particular quirks and raised a silly issue, I think this is a real one.
I have “test” selected as an option I want in the shell main menu.
But it doesn’t show up in the shell either within the PA window or within explorer.
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is it 32bit Windows or 64 bit? I tested it on x64 and seems to be fine…i added it to submenu and showed there when clicked on zip archive… what archive did you click on?
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32 bit
click on several archives. zipx and 7zip
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I show you the setting in shell.
My screen capture program won’t let me capture right menu options within PA; but here is explorer RC menu.
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ok, mili will check with 32bit when he signs on after his festivities come to the end (eating a lot of cookies due to holidays)
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I thought perhaps relocating in on the ribbon might have made a difference
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Works in Vista 32bit. Tried a few different archive types for testing.
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I Use Win 7
Perhaps it works, too, if I break it apart into all the sub areas. But I don’t want to do that. Context menu is too cluttered as is.
I can get it to show up if I add it to the sub-menu (which, I think, is what Luxor has done). Could you try adding it to the main menu and see what happens?
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Then either it is Vista versus 7-32 . . . or something else (one different setting?
Never been a problem before.
I can live with it in sub-menu, but since I use it a lot, I would have preferred. . . .
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Then either it is Vista versus 7-32
Vista does something better than win7, that’s got to be a first. ;)
I can live with it in sub-menu, but since I use it a lot, I would have preferred. . . .
Have faith in the team, they are good at finding and fixing our own little personal issues. :)
Except for a couple of my personal little ones. :D
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The test tool – even when it does appear in the sub-menu – does not work.
First, it asks me for the proper file association, and then just opens the PA window where I can, if I wish, test the archive.
But this is multiple steps for what should be two clicks (right context menu / test).
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One more thing. I have “Test” on the QAT. But I cannot use it even when I have selected an archive. I actually have to open the archive.
That seems like an unnecessary step.
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for Test there needs to be archive opened… it doesnt have an interface of its own.
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I Use Win 7
Perhaps it works, too, if I break it apart into all the sub areas. But I don’t want to do that. Context menu is too cluttered as is.
I can get it to show up if I add it to the sub-menu (which, I think, is what Luxor has done). Could you try adding it to the main menu and see what happens?
send over your settings and we will try with them and see what happens on our test computers… maybe it wont show up either.
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I have used test within the shell for as long as I have used PA. I did not have to open the archive . . . just have it chosen.
Have you decided that they will no longer be true? I can live with it within the sub-menu, as long as it works the way it used to.
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I have used test within the shell for as long as I have used PA. I did not have to open the archive . . . just have it chosen.
Have you decided that they will no longer be true? I can live with it within the sub-menu, as long as it works the way it used to.
no, i was talking QAT and inside main PA. In the shell, it should work same as always, there were no changes in any case, just repositioning one button.
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I stumbled on a solution. After brief tinkering, (a) “test” appeared in the main shell menu, and b) I could run test immediately, just after selecting the archive, just as it has always done before.
The problem - unfortunately - is that I am not 100% sure what I did. I was tinkering with adding and deleting several other items in the shell extensions menus. (I thought tinkering with the menus might yield a result.)
I THINK this is what I did:
Under compression:
1. removed compress to RARUnder extraction:
1. ended up with “extract archive to” and “extract archive here.” I either had one but not the other; on even took one off and added it back on.In any event, shazzam: test showed up and worked correctly, both in explorer shell AND in right clicking within the PA window. It did NOT take to me to the PA windows or require me to actually open the archive. Just selecting it was enough.
If you want, I can send you the new registry keys, and you can compare them with the one I sent this morning. Perhaps you can isolate the exact difference.
