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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?
Slow Ring: PowerArchiver 2017 17.00.90/91/92 - Final!
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Release Notes - PowerArchiver - Version 17.00.90/91/92
** Improvement
* [PA-225] - Patchbeam improvements
* [PA-944] - pa: improve memory managment
* [PA-1074] - compress + options - file list font wrong
* [PA-1076] - use same update filename for fast and slow rings in patchbeam** Task
* [PA-896] - Build MSI setup for business users
* [PA-1073] - remove powerarc-bsc32/64.exe from install (not used)
* [PA-1078] - remove double danish translation from installer** Bug
* [PA-662] - Queue size limit goes into negative numbers in config
* [PA-956] - patchbeam sends wrong info
* [PA-959] - .pa - faster cancel for extraction/decode
* [PA-990] - Folders bar too wide when turned on in Archive tab
* [PA-995] - Cannot update PAE and PAE2 files
* [PA-1000] - PA(.78) crashes when creating 7z thru shell
* [PA-1025] - calculate memory: after clicking on calculate and numbers show, clicking on select files and advanced tab again has delay
* [PA-1047] - Cannot create TARGZ properly through shell
* [PA-1054] - default size of preview window too small in archive mode
* [PA-1071] - AV error when creating archives and QUEUE turned on
* [PA-1075] - status bar above ftp log
* [PA-1077] - Cannot rename files inside PA archives
* [PA-1079] - compress with options resets custom file listing fontRelease Notes - PowerArchiver - Version 17.00.91
** Improvement
* [PA-1085] - turn on preview for archive mode when browsing hdd
* [PA-1089] - add .tgz to the reflate step same as tar.gz
* [PA-1094] - add classic icons for encode and repair zip** Task
* [PA-1084] - yellow icon for shell context menu** New Feature
* [PA-1101] - enterprise: remove individual modes (ftp, burner, backup, etc) from navbar, based on registry key** Bug
* [PA-1082] - archive mode - exit archive, folders bar does not show hdd contents
* [PA-1083] - archive mode - clicking on archive in explorer hdd view opens up another window
* [PA-1087] - Additional Skins not showing in PA
* [PA-1091] - checkbox selection shows error in explorer mode in archive/explore modes
* [PA-1092] - show button text uncheck does not save, does not work in backup mode toolbarRelease Notes - PowerArchiver - Version 17.00.92
** Improvement
* [PA-1106] - limit plzma/bwt/ppmd/rep dictionaries to max settings in advanced options
* [PA-1107] - add .msu and .msp to same step as msi for PA format
* [PA-1110] - update german and japanese translations
* [PA-1114] - implement extension sort for PA and 7z archives
* [PA-1115] - XPM file support
* [PA-1117] - crc error on specific ZIP files, specific computer** Bug
* [PA-1102] - Skins below Whiteprint cannot be selected
* [PA-1105] - Enable queue stays always selected in Config
* [PA-1118] - zip: crc error on 10gb test samplePA 2017 17.00.91 download:
http://dl.powerarchiver.com/2017/powarc170091.exePA 2017 17.00.91 Portable download:
http://dl.powerarchiver.com/2017/powarcportable170091.exeWhats New
- Updated Patchbeam to use fast patch based updates. Update from .89 to .90 is 291kb, from .88 to .90 is 811kb. No more full installer downloads for each release.
- MP3 codec activated for all Optimized Strong uses, moved out of experimental phase.
- MSI setups for business users are available. These do not uninstall old PA 2016 versions, so users will need to manually uninstall if MSI use is needed. We recommend regular setup for all users not specifically needing MSI.
- Fixes and Improvements listed above and some other fixes between versions.
We want to thank all of the @Alpha-Testers for testing PA 2017. Your input has been crucial. This is just a start of PowerArchiver 2017 release cycle, we expect another update in next 1-2 weeks at most, after some of us come back from (deserved) holidays.
Make sure to use Patchbeam in the future for super fast update process!
- .91 build - small update based on user reports. Make sure to use Patchbeam for fast updates!
- .92 build - important changes, only via Patchbeam and only for x64 for now. Please check your zip archives for testing!
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@spwolf said in Slow Ring: PowerArchiver 2017 17.00.90 - Final!:
Whats New
Updated Patchbeam to use fast patch based updates. Update from .89 to .90 is 291kb, from .88 to .90 is 811kb. No more full installer downloads for each release.
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Make sure to use Patchbeam in the future for super fast update process!I do not feel confident that this will work right.
I’m still not really convinced that your efforts to make the full installer close and restart explorer.exe when needed always work correctly.
Sometimes it closes the shell explorer so that the desktop icons disappear for a while but other times it just closes an explorer windows that I had open. I’ve even seen it close just one explorer window and leave another open.
Anyway it just seems like a bodge to me. When the shell explorer is closed and restarted some things to not re-appear as they should.
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@Brian-Gregory said in Slow Ring: PowerArchiver 2017 17.00.90 - Final!:
@spwolf said in Slow Ring: PowerArchiver 2017 17.00.90 - Final!:
Whats New
Updated Patchbeam to use fast patch based updates. Update from .89 to .90 is 291kb, from .88 to .90 is 811kb. No more full installer downloads for each release.
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Make sure to use Patchbeam in the future for super fast update process!I do not feel confident that this will work right.
I’m still not really convinced that your efforts to make the full installer close and restart explorer.exe when needed always work correctly.
Sometimes it closes the shell explorer so that the desktop icons disappear for a while but other times it just closes an explorer windows that I had open. I’ve even seen it close just one explorer window and leave another open.
Anyway it just seems like a bodge to me. When the shell explorer is closed and restarted some things to not re-appear as they should.
For the restarting explorer - it is actually an Windows feature - Windows Restart Manager. It works better or worse based on your version of Windows and install. It doesnt have a lot to do with us… most of those restarts are not needed either, they should be required only when shell dll is changed (April 10th 2017 was last update) but Inno setup likes doing it always.
So Patchbeam will make all of this a lot nicer. And it will work properly since it is something we can control. Only “problem” with Patchbeam is that once actual dll change is needed, you would need to restart computer since it cant use restart manager. But thats maybe 2x per year vs 90 builds we have so far :).
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Please could the new patchbeam be made to update the version number shown for PowerArchiver in Control Panel / Add/Remove Programs.
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@brian-gregory it is not possible, it does not do anything to the registry, just patches file changes.
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@brian-gregory btw, how did the patchbeam work, it should have been 1.7MB update, much smoother than regular installer.
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On my desktop it got a bit muddled up because, I think, I checked manually for updates at the same time as it was updating itself. On my laptop I let it do it’s stuff and it seemed to work well, I think it updated when I closed PowerArchiver after using it.
