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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.
SOLVED [BUG] UAC support broken in PowerArchiver 2018
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Hi,
I’ve some problems with UAC in PowerArchiver 2018:- I’ve already reported problems for PA2017 and you fixed some problems.
- I’ve noticed again problems with UAC: The problematic archive is a 7zip. Opening it with PA2018 and directly clicking on extract, triggers an UAC prompt as expected. Selecting single files and trying to extract them to the same place (a subfolder of C:\Program Files) fails with an error (there are already older versions of the files in the same place to be overwritten).
- I’ve done further tests with other formats, via shell extension (Extract to…):
My test archives contain 1 file: test.txt
If the file does not already exist:
UAC prompt: 7z, pa, tar, lha
Access error: zip, rar, cab, bh
If the file already exists in the destination folder, no UAC prompt is triggered in any case. I confirm overwriting the files and it fails with an access error.
I’ve used PA 18.00.46 x64 on Windows 10 1709. - The x86 Shell extension behaves differently:
All but the rar archive triggers an UAC prompt if the file doesn’t exist in the destination folder; if I deny the UAC prompt, the shell extension crashes in most cases.
Are you going to fix this in PA2018 soon or should I revert to PA2016, again?
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@BigMike said in [BUG] UAC support broken in PowerArchiver 2018:
By the way, silently failing if the UAC prompt is denied, is a real problem, as it’s possible to configure UAC settings to deny an UAC request automatically:
GPO setting: User Account Control: Behavior of the elevation prompt for standard users
If you set it to “No Prompt”, UAC requests will be automatically blocked. And with the actual behavior a user would get no feedback, that the operation failed!Please check with .04:
http://dl.powerarchiver.com/2018/powarc180104.exeThere should be an error, but lets make sure it does not appear at wrong time.
As to the changes, it does nothing to actual extraction code/engine, it checks if it can write file, and if not, it starts compression/extraction from another/elevated version of powerarc.exe… where before it elevated specific existing thread, which did not work reliably with engines that use multiple threads.
Thanks!
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thanks for the details on this one @BigMike
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Can you estimate when the UAC problems will be fixed?
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@bigmike said in [BUG] UAC support broken in PowerArchiver 2018:
Can you estimate when the UAC problems will be fixed?
I like the new features of PA2018 very much, but I’m using the shell extension pretty often, so this is very disturbing.I will raise this again at next build discussions… for upcoming week we have PACL, PAOP builds first and then we will look at PA again. Thanks!
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Thank you :-)
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@spwolf Any news here?
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@BigMike said in [BUG] UAC support broken in PowerArchiver 2018:
@spwolf Any news here?
not yet… we have new building coming soon, let see if we can squeeze it in. For 2019 we will likely rewrite shell from scratch, we will see. Thanks for keeping track of it!
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Keeping track of it is easy - I’m regularly reminded of it, when I forget about the bug and try to use the shell extension for a protected folder. :crying_face:
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Sorry, but in favor of a working context menu, I’m switching back to PowerArchiver 2016, giving up the full x64 version, explorer mode and PA format.
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@BigMike said in [BUG] UAC support broken in PowerArchiver 2018:
Sorry, but in favor of a working context menu, I’m switching back to PowerArchiver 2016, giving up the full x64 version, explorer mode and PA format.
actually we are just working on it… lets see what we can do, problem/difference is that in 2017 we have been using more threads for faster speed and that messes up UAC elevation in some cases.
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I’ll happily test the new version and get all the other features back.
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@BigMike said in [BUG] UAC support broken in PowerArchiver 2018:
I’ll happily test the new version and get all the other features back.
as long as we can improve it… I will let you know, @ivan already spent few days on it alone. Thanks!
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@BigMike Check out his release:
http://dl.powerarchiver.com/2018/powarc180103.exeIt elevates complete PowerArchiver instead of the thread, since 7z/PA formats use multiple threads. This might create some issues so test it out both in main and shell please!
thanks!
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First: Thank you for your efforts :-)
UAC handling seems to work fine, but I encountered some problems, while I prepared my test:32bit: Shell extension:
- Adding two files to a new zip archive; user has no write access to the destination folder; UAC dialog was shown and confirmed; but the rights were not sufficient afterwards (Windows 10 Controlled Folder access blocked it): Instead of giving an error, PowerArchiver launched one process after another to create the archive; Not tested in x64 as my test Windows is to old (No Controlled Folder access)
32bit: Application:
- Convert archive PA -> Other: TAR; Exception TList<System.Classes.TComponent> in module POWERARC.EXE at 000B94E4; This works in x64
64bit: Application:
- Convert archive PA -> Other: RAR; Conversion is done, but a message is displayed, that some archives couldn’t be converted (RAR executable 5.50 x64); Not tested on x86 since no RAR executable there…
Test scenario:
Test archives containing two files, try to extract to a folder, which is read only for users, administrators have full access. Passed means: UAC prompt confirmed --> asked to overwrite files --> no error displayed
Actually, there seems to be no error if I deny UAC promptShell Extension x64 Passed: 7z bh cab lzh pa rar tar.gz zip zpaq
Application x64 Passed: 7z bh cab lzh pa rar tar.gz zip zpaq
Shell Extension x86 Passed: 7z bh cab lzh pa rar tar.gz zip zpaq
Application x86 Passed: 7z bh cab lzh pa rar tar.gz zip zpaqFailed: None
Is this version reasonable stable to be used on a production machine? Actually, from your description, it seems you changed a lot in the extraction processes.
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By the way, silently failing if the UAC prompt is denied, is a real problem, as it’s possible to configure UAC settings to deny an UAC request automatically:
GPO setting: User Account Control: Behavior of the elevation prompt for standard users
If you set it to “No Prompt”, UAC requests will be automatically blocked. And with the actual behavior a user would get no feedback, that the operation failed! -
@BigMike said in [BUG] UAC support broken in PowerArchiver 2018:
By the way, silently failing if the UAC prompt is denied, is a real problem, as it’s possible to configure UAC settings to deny an UAC request automatically:
GPO setting: User Account Control: Behavior of the elevation prompt for standard users
If you set it to “No Prompt”, UAC requests will be automatically blocked. And with the actual behavior a user would get no feedback, that the operation failed!Please check with .04:
http://dl.powerarchiver.com/2018/powarc180104.exeThere should be an error, but lets make sure it does not appear at wrong time.
As to the changes, it does nothing to actual extraction code/engine, it checks if it can write file, and if not, it starts compression/extraction from another/elevated version of powerarc.exe… where before it elevated specific existing thread, which did not work reliably with engines that use multiple threads.
Thanks!
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Now I get error messages as expected.
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@BigMike said in [BUG] UAC support broken in PowerArchiver 2018:
Now I get error messages as expected.
thanks for your help Michael!
