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    • Latest version and online update

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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.

      Either there isn’t an update OR
      the “download” and 'update" links should be repaired.

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    • Cannot login

      P

      Hi Dear,

      Cannot login and request resend license code for my fd

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    • PowerArchiver Purchase

      C

      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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    • Power Archiver Starter - CPU and power overhead

      PA_Fan

      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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    • Slow multipart RAR extraction

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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?

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    • Action Move - Not Working in Tools - Batch Archive

      G

      Hi. The “Move” Action seems to be Not Working when used in the Tool – Batch Archive.

      Using the Options – Configuration – Compression Profiles ---- I created a Profile with the Action of Move. Also set were Zip, and Method Deflate.

      When I use the Tool - Batch Archive – It appears to me that the Action Move does not Move the compressed files (basically add to zip, and delete the added file from original location on the same disk). Zip file(s) are created and look ok.

      Typically I on the Batch Archive process – I have selected options to use a Profile with the Move Action.

      File’s Current Folder Group files from same folder into same archive Add subfolders to separate archives

      My PowerArchiver version is 21.00.17 .

      Can you reproduce ? – Or do you need additional details or information?

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    • Command line

      L

      Hello,

      PowerArchiver Command Line 7 support file greater than 2 Go ?

      Thanks

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    • open file manager after extracting from archives...

      P

      i just registered my own copy and i need some help to set it…

      if i set the ‘configuration>shell extension>open folder after extracting’ checkbox, after decompress an archive is opened the file manager on that folder but… if somebody is using a different file manager how to open XYplorer or Directory Opus for example and NOT the MS file manager?

      consider this as a feature request also if not available within the 2022 version

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    • Need to find out how to disable "all users" to end UAC elevation prompt on running PA

      Q

      I am looking for a way to stop the UAC elevation prompt when running Powerarchiver. In an old post about PA 2019, someone asked this and got a response to uncheck “all users” at the prompt but I am not seeing where one can do this. It definitely seems like the way to go though as if I click on “More Details” at the prompt I see that it is trying to run “_pautil.exe /paassociate /allusers /my(long binary string)”. Can you let me know? Thanks.

      PS I tried renaming _pautil.exe and this worked, but I don’t know what the consequence of doing this may be so I would like to do this properly, thanks.

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    • Question is Ashampoo Zip Pro 4 built by the Powerarchiver team?

      D

      Just a question is Ashampoo zip pro 4 built by Powerrachiver as it is very similar and uses the pae encryption.

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    • Transfer PC License to MacBook iOS

      R

      Hi,
      Is it possible to transfer one of my existing PC Licenses to my MacBook?

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    • Transfer License

      R

      Re: Transfer PC License to MacBook iOS

      Here is the email…
      On Tue, Jun 7, 2022 at 1:20 PM Rich DiBenedetto rmdibened@gmail.com wrote:
      Greetings,
      Could you assist me with this?
      Can I use my current licenses with MacOS?
      If not, can I transfer a license to MacOS?

      Cheers and Have a Great Day,
      Rich

      On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 6:35 AM ConeXware, Inc. ordering@conexware.com wrote:
      Dear Richard DiBenedetto,

      Thank you for supporting PowerArchiver! Please find your activation and registration codes below.

      *** Online Activation ***

      PowerArchiver Select for PowerArchiver Toolbox English - LIFETIME
      is valid until - not limited.

      E-Mail: RMDibened@gmail.com
      Activation Code: ***

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    • Does PA supports Intel's zlib?

      G

      There would be many of us with Intel Processors.

      and they have their own optimized zlib algorithm, which can result in more efficiency if used combined with their hardware processor.

      Reference:
      https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/white-papers/zlib-compression-whitepaper-copy.pdf

      Can we get the same Functionality Under Hardware Acceleration Feature?

      Zlib is not the only feature that intel has included with their processor, there’s many, which if combined can result in efficient and better compression ratios.

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    • GUI: Issue with buttons

      guido

      a686fe8c-93a1-4830-9d01-0b9a4edd9449-image.png

      Right buttons are not visible

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    • PA 2.00.01 macOS - stuck with no support

      F

      Greetings, new customer searching for help and/or refund…

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    • Windows 10 File Explorer crashing context menu on Junction

      W

      With PowerArchiver context menu enabled, it is crashing Windows 10 File Explorer when right-clicking on the Default User junction in C:\Users. Had 2021 installed, updated to today’s 2022, still getting same crash. Must have Hidden files and folders set to Show, and Hide protected operating system files cleared in File Explorer Options|View.

      Windows 10 Enterprise Version 21H2 (OS Build 19044.1708) (64-bit)
      PowerArchiver 2022 Version: 21.00.15 (03/2022) 64-bit
      Licensed:
      PowerArchiver Toolbox Edition Personal English

      Disabling PowerArchiver context menu using Autoruns: on the Explorer tab, uncheck PowerArchiver64 under HKLM\Software\Classes\Folders\ShellEx\ContextMenuHandlers and the crash does not happen.

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    • Conexware update

      W

      Hello,
      When clicking on the main ribbon for a new version I get a script error message.
      Actual version: 21.00.15 - French version
      OS: W10 21H2 19044.1645

      Best regards
      Wilfrid

      PS: Keep building such good software

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    • Update script error

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      when clciking on powerarchiver update from within powerarchiver we get a windows for the update but it nows sayes script errors. I think it could be due to windows update in windows 10 can you look into it. By pressing cancel it seems to be ok. It seems that the page being displayed as erros on it.

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    Fast Ring: PA 2016 16.10.23/24

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    • spwolf
      spwolf conexware last edited by spwolf

      New version: PA 2016 16.10.23/24

      Download:
      http://dl.powerarchiver.com/2016/powarc161024.exe

      What New:

      • Added support for 3 different ZIP samples we have received that did not work previously due to bad headers.
      • Added 4K support for display scaling.

      Please test and let us know if everything works well. Thank you!

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      • Luxor
        Luxor Alpha Testers last edited by Luxor

        Whoa! There’s something funky going on with this build.
        Installed fine but after installation It kept on restarting itself and I had dozens of PA starter icons in my notification area.
        Had to restart my PC as I can’t stop it doing it. On restart I clicked on PA starter to start PA and the situation repeats itself.
        Going to have to uninstall and go back a version.

        Windows 10 Home 64-bit
        Intel Core i7 6700HQ @ 2.60GHz
        12.0GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 798MHz

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        • spwolf
          spwolf conexware @Luxor last edited by

          @Luxor said in Fast Ring: PA 2016 16.10.23:

          Whoa! There’s something funky going on with this build.
          Installed fine but after installation It kept on restarting itself and I had dozens of PA starter icons in my notification area.
          Had to restart my PC as I can’t stop it doing it. On restart I clicked on PA starter to start PA and the situation repeats itself.
          Going to have to uninstall and go back a version.

          can you send me your .reg of HKCU\Software\PowerArchiverInt\

          It seems something with PA starter… can you turn it off completely and start PA by launching via powerarc.exe or pa shortcut?

          Thank you!

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          • spwolf
            spwolf conexware last edited by

            also, can you check the time of your powerarc.exe… it should be 3:38 PM (15:38).

            pastarter.exe did not change since May.

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            • Luxor
              Luxor Alpha Testers @spwolf last edited by

              @spwolf said in Fast Ring: PA 2016 16.10.23:

              can you send me your .reg of HKCU\Software\PowerArchiverInt\

              I had to restart and uninstall it as I couldn’t do anything

              @spwolf said in Fast Ring: PA 2016 16.10.23:

              It seems something with PA starter… can you turn it off completely

              PA starter was my suspect, but I couldn’t turn it off or do anything with it, as the PA window was just popping up, off and on, over and over.

              Going to install it again but I won’t activate PA starter, see how it goes.

              Windows 10 Home 64-bit
              Intel Core i7 6700HQ @ 2.60GHz
              12.0GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 798MHz

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              • Luxor
                Luxor Alpha Testers last edited by

                Nope! Same problem and now I have the PA window flashing off and on, Just minus all the instances of PA starter in notification area.

                Windows 10 Home 64-bit
                Intel Core i7 6700HQ @ 2.60GHz
                12.0GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 798MHz

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                • spwolf
                  spwolf conexware last edited by

                  ok, please send that .reg key so we can check it out with your settings… it is likely something with modern toolbar, are you using it? Since that was updated with new components with support for 4K resolutions. Thanks!

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                  • spwolf
                    spwolf conexware last edited by

                    also, check time on powerarc.exe, it has to be 15:38… one from earlier did not work correctly, maybe it was left on some CDN server that you downloaded from. Thanks!

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                    • Luxor
                      Luxor Alpha Testers @spwolf last edited by

                      Gone back to PA16.10.21 and thankfully things are back to normal. Sorry that I couldn’t really do anything about that, as all those windows popping on and off just made it impossible to do anything.

                      @spwolf said in Fast Ring: PA 2016 16.10.23:

                      ok, please send that .reg key so we can check it out with your settings

                      Do you still want it now that I have had to go back to PA16.10.21?

                      @spwolf said in Fast Ring: PA 2016 16.10.23:

                      it is likely something with modern toolbar, are you using it?

                      I am indeed.

                      @spwolf said in Fast Ring: PA 2016 16.10.23:

                      check time on powerarc.exe, it has to be 15:38…

                      12:26 According to mine, but as I’ve had to go back to PA16.10.21 I don’t know if that’s right or not.

                      Windows 10 Home 64-bit
                      Intel Core i7 6700HQ @ 2.60GHz
                      12.0GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 798MHz

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                      • spwolf
                        spwolf conexware last edited by

                        yes please to the .reg

                        Check file sizes of your installer .exe. This is what it should be:

                        0_1477333671441_upload-06a14663-7d2b-446a-8c8e-31699b4c523f

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                        • Luxor
                          Luxor Alpha Testers @spwolf last edited by Luxor

                          @spwolf said in Fast Ring: PA 2016 16.10.23:

                          yes please to the .reg

                          On it’s way.

                          Damn! forgot to zip it, resending…

                          @spwolf said in Fast Ring: PA 2016 16.10.23:

                          Check file sizes of your installer .exe. This is what it should be:

                          Same here.

                          Windows 10 Home 64-bit
                          Intel Core i7 6700HQ @ 2.60GHz
                          12.0GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 798MHz

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                          • spwolf
                            spwolf conexware @Luxor last edited by

                            @Luxor said in Fast Ring: PA 2016 16.10.23:

                            @spwolf said in Fast Ring: PA 2016 16.10.23:

                            yes please to the .reg

                            On it’s way.

                            Damn! forgot to zip it, resending…

                            @spwolf said in Fast Ring: PA 2016 16.10.23:

                            Check file sizes of your installer .exe. This is what it should be:

                            Same here.

                            better use .bh compression so it wont be rejected by google mail servers. Thanks!

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                            • Luxor
                              Luxor Alpha Testers @spwolf last edited by

                              @spwolf said in Fast Ring: PA 2016 16.10.23:

                              better use .bh compression so it wont be rejected by google mail servers. Thanks!

                              It’s that long since I’ve had to send it, I forgot the correct format.
                              Resending for a third time,

                              Windows 10 Home 64-bit
                              Intel Core i7 6700HQ @ 2.60GHz
                              12.0GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 798MHz

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                              • spwolf
                                spwolf conexware @Luxor last edited by

                                @Luxor said in Fast Ring: PA 2016 16.10.23:

                                @spwolf said in Fast Ring: PA 2016 16.10.23:

                                yes please to the .reg

                                On it’s way.

                                Damn! forgot to zip it, resending…

                                @spwolf said in Fast Ring: PA 2016 16.10.23:

                                Check file sizes of your installer .exe. This is what it should be:

                                Same here.

                                i got the files but nothing bad happens.

                                It just startes PA as normal, with left treeview and Windows 10 skin. :(

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                                • spwolf
                                  spwolf conexware last edited by

                                  got it, when i deleted my own HKLM keys, it started restarting!

                                  do you maybe have saved key that you use to get your settings back during reinstallations?

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                                  • Luxor
                                    Luxor Alpha Testers @spwolf last edited by

                                    @spwolf said in Fast Ring: PA 2016 16.10.23:

                                    do you maybe have saved key that you use to get your settings back during reinstallations?

                                    I have my config file if that’s what you mean. Do you want that sent?

                                    Windows 10 Home 64-bit
                                    Intel Core i7 6700HQ @ 2.60GHz
                                    12.0GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 798MHz

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                                    • spwolf
                                      spwolf conexware @Luxor last edited by spwolf

                                      @Luxor said in Fast Ring: PA 2016 16.10.23:

                                      @spwolf said in Fast Ring: PA 2016 16.10.23:

                                      do you maybe have saved key that you use to get your settings back during reinstallations?

                                      I have my config file if that’s what you mean. Do you want that sent?

                                      it is likely whats causing the issue :)
                                      Yes, please do send it!

                                      I suspect that Ivan had to change some part of it for new toolbar and it is causing problems now. It is very annoying :-)

                                      Super happy that you are using it though!

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                                      • Luxor
                                        Luxor Alpha Testers @spwolf last edited by

                                        @spwolf said in Fast Ring: PA 2016 16.10.23:

                                        Yes, please do send it!

                                        On it’s way.

                                        @spwolf said in Fast Ring: PA 2016 16.10.23:

                                        I suspect that Ivan had to change some part of it for new toolbar and it is causing problems now. It is very annoying :-)

                                        Yes very annoying.

                                        @spwolf said in Fast Ring: PA 2016 16.10.23:

                                        Super happy that you are using it though!

                                        Some folk are easily pleased. :-p

                                        Windows 10 Home 64-bit
                                        Intel Core i7 6700HQ @ 2.60GHz
                                        12.0GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 798MHz

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                                        • spwolf
                                          spwolf conexware @Luxor last edited by

                                          @Luxor said in Fast Ring: PA 2016 16.10.23:

                                          @spwolf said in Fast Ring: PA 2016 16.10.23:

                                          Yes, please do send it!

                                          On it’s way.

                                          @spwolf said in Fast Ring: PA 2016 16.10.23:

                                          I suspect that Ivan had to change some part of it for new toolbar and it is causing problems now. It is very annoying :-)

                                          Yes very annoying.

                                          @spwolf said in Fast Ring: PA 2016 16.10.23:

                                          Super happy that you are using it though!

                                          Some folk are easily pleased. :-p

                                          @Luxor said in Fast Ring: PA 2016 16.10.23:

                                          @spwolf said in Fast Ring: PA 2016 16.10.23:

                                          Yes, please do send it!

                                          On it’s way.

                                          @spwolf said in Fast Ring: PA 2016 16.10.23:

                                          I suspect that Ivan had to change some part of it for new toolbar and it is causing problems now. It is very annoying :-)

                                          Yes very annoying.

                                          @spwolf said in Fast Ring: PA 2016 16.10.23:

                                          Super happy that you are using it though!

                                          Some folk are easily pleased. :-p

                                          I will see with ivan tomorrow, but he mentioned today in first build that some setting had to be changed due to new toolbar code, it is possible that this is done on first run after install, and when you restore settings it messes it up… so it is good that you are using it this way, and that the issue could surface.

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                                          • spwolf
                                            spwolf conexware last edited by

                                            I have removed the link since that restarting thing is very annoying… new version on Tuesday!

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                                            • spwolf
                                              spwolf conexware last edited by

                                              so due to some changes necessitated by upcoming 2017 release, language settings were left from 2017 portable version… result was that PA kept detecting language, changing it and restarting to apply but it was writing data into wrong registry key, hence infinite loop. Since we had 2017 version installed already, it worked fine internally, because all values were already there.

                                              Simple problem, very annoying issue. New files are being uploaded right now, thanks everyone!

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                                              • Luxor
                                                Luxor Alpha Testers @spwolf last edited by

                                                @spwolf said in Fast Ring: PA 2016 16.10.23:

                                                Simple problem, very annoying issue. New files are being uploaded right now, thanks everyone!

                                                At least you solved it quickly, no damage done. :)

                                                Windows 10 Home 64-bit
                                                Intel Core i7 6700HQ @ 2.60GHz
                                                12.0GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 798MHz

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                                                • spwolf
                                                  spwolf conexware @Luxor last edited by

                                                  @Luxor said in Fast Ring: PA 2016 16.10.23:

                                                  @spwolf said in Fast Ring: PA 2016 16.10.23:

                                                  Simple problem, very annoying issue. New files are being uploaded right now, thanks everyone!

                                                  At least you solved it quickly, no damage done. :)

                                                  please try .24 from first post, and lets see what happens :-)

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                                                  • Luxor
                                                    Luxor Alpha Testers last edited by

                                                    That one works fine. :)

                                                    Windows 10 Home 64-bit
                                                    Intel Core i7 6700HQ @ 2.60GHz
                                                    12.0GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 798MHz

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