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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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    • 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

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

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    • Cannot login

      P

      Hi Dear,

      Cannot login and request resend license code for my fd

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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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    • PA 2.00.01 macOS extract popup not showing buttons

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      From within PA on the extract popup, buttons are hidden, I must resize the window to get access to the OK/Cancel buttons. Tried on the default notebook screen (Macbook M1 Max 14") as well as on my external monitor (4k).Screenshot_2022-05-12_10-02-10.jpg

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    • PA 2.00.01 macOS directory separator inside RAR

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      Just uncompressed a RAR file that has a folder within, PA created the folder but the files inside are not being saved into folder because directory separator is a BACKSLASH (Windows style) instead of SLASH (macOS).Screenshot_2022-05-12_09-59-08.jpg

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    • PDF Encrypt and Sign Section Missing

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      Ho già contattato il supporto con il modulo presente qui https://www.powerarchiver.com/it/contact/ da settimane ma non ho ricevuto riscontro e ora che ho aggiornato alla versione 21.00.15 ho notato che il problema persiste.
      Quando clicco PDF Encrypt & Sign nel tab Crittografia appare la schemata riportata sotto come se mancassero le funzionalità.

      I’ve already contacted support with the form here https://www.powerarchiver.com/it/contact/ weeks ago but I haven’t received any feedback and now that I’ve updated to version 21.00.15 I’ve noticed that the problem persists.
      When I click on PDF Encrypt & Sign in the Encryption tab the schematic below appears as if the functionality is missing.

      de9b4a2d-07e7-4323-a5a3-1b91e73dafc0-image.png

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    • PowerArchiver 2022 Final does not find external DVD-Burner

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      I have tried to burn a DVD with PowerArchiver 2022 Final, but it didn’t work because PA didn’t found the external DVD-Burner.
      I have tried several burners from Sony, LG, Dell.
      I have connected the burners with several USB-Ports but unfortunately without any success.
      With other burning software, e. g. Nero, all burner worked perfect on each USB-Port.
      The same problem occured with PA2018 and it was solved with an update, but I don’t remember the detailed software version.
      Could you check the possibility of an bug, please?
      Thank you for your support in advance!

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    SOLVED Powerarchiver 2021 incorrectly extract tar.xz file

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      eperie last edited by

      Configuration:
      Powerarchiver 2021 20.00.73
      Windows 10 Education 10.0.19042 Build 19042

      When extracting gcc-arm-10.2-2020.11-mingw-w64-i686-arm-none-linux-gnueabihf.tar.xz , Powerarchiver wrongly thinks some .exe files have a length of zero:

      98773b3b-65c0-48fa-8cd4-d081b2e0adee-image.png

      Once extracted:

      D:\Temp\Powerarchiver\gcc-arm-10.2-2020.11-mingw-w64-i686-arm-none-linux-gnueabihf\bin>dir *.exe
       Volume in drive D is DATA
       Volume Serial Number is 0E12-BCA2
      
       Directory of D:\Temp\Powerarchiver\gcc-arm-10.2-2020.11-mingw-w64-i686-arm-none-linux-gnueabihf\bin
      
      2020-11-20  07:10 PM         1,391,599 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-addr2line.exe
      2020-11-20  07:10 PM                 0 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-ar.exe
      2020-11-20  07:10 PM                 0 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-as.exe
      2020-11-20  07:41 PM         3,030,119 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-c++.exe
      2020-11-20  07:10 PM         1,389,293 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-c++filt.exe
      2020-11-20  07:41 PM         3,027,513 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-cpp.exe
      2020-11-20  07:10 PM         4,040,503 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-dwp.exe
      2020-11-20  07:10 PM           391,769 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-elfedit.exe
      2020-11-20  07:41 PM                 0 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-g++.exe
      2020-11-20  07:41 PM         3,026,926 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-gcc-10.2.1.exe
      2020-11-20  07:41 PM           609,607 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-gcc-ar.exe
      2020-11-20  07:41 PM           609,607 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-gcc-nm.exe
      2020-11-20  07:41 PM           609,607 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-gcc-ranlib.exe
      2020-11-20  07:41 PM                 0 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-gcc.exe
      2020-11-20  07:41 PM         2,165,533 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-gcov-dump.exe
      2020-11-20  07:41 PM         2,343,605 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-gcov-tool.exe
      2020-11-20  07:41 PM         2,450,233 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-gcov.exe
      2020-11-20  07:54 PM         9,605,899 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-gdb.exe
      2020-11-20  07:41 PM         3,028,997 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-gfortran.exe
      2020-11-20  07:10 PM         1,412,943 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-gprof.exe
      2020-11-20  07:10 PM                 0 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-ld.bfd.exe
      2020-11-20  07:10 PM                 0 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-ld.exe
      2020-11-20  07:10 PM                 0 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-ld.gold.exe
      2020-11-20  07:41 PM        25,546,567 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-lto-dump.exe
      2020-11-20  07:10 PM                 0 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-nm.exe
      2020-11-20  07:10 PM                 0 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-objcopy.exe
      2020-11-20  07:10 PM                 0 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-objdump.exe
      2020-11-20  07:10 PM                 0 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-ranlib.exe
      2020-11-20  07:10 PM                 0 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-readelf.exe
      2020-11-20  07:10 PM         1,393,083 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-size.exe
      2020-11-20  07:10 PM         1,392,464 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-strings.exe
      2020-11-20  07:10 PM                 0 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-strip.exe
                    32 File(s)     67,465,867 bytes
                     0 Dir(s)  1,002,422,431,744 bytes free
      

      When the same archive is being extracted from a git bash session (after having installed git 2.30.1 for Windows 64 bit version from git-scm.com), the .exe files are extracted as expected:

      xz -k -d gcc-arm-10.2-2020.11-mingw-w64-i686-arm-none-linux-gnueabihf.tar.xz
      tar xf gcc-arm-10.2-2020.11-mingw-w64-i686-arm-none-linux-gnueabihf.tar
      cd gcc-arm-10.2-2020.11-mingw-w64-i686-arm-none-linux-gnueabihf/bin
      ll *.exe
      -rwxr-xr-x 1 User 197121  1391599 Nov 20 19:10 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-addr2line.exe*
      -rwxr-xr-x 2 User 197121  1421598 Nov 20 19:10 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-ar.exe*
      -rwxr-xr-x 2 User 197121  2028927 Nov 20 19:10 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-as.exe*
      -rwxr-xr-x 2 User 197121  3030119 Nov 20 19:41 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-c++.exe*
      -rwxr-xr-x 1 User 197121  1389293 Nov 20 19:10 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-c++filt.exe*
      -rwxr-xr-x 1 User 197121  3027513 Nov 20 19:41 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-cpp.exe*
      -rwxr-xr-x 1 User 197121  4040503 Nov 20 19:10 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-dwp.exe*
      -rwxr-xr-x 1 User 197121   391769 Nov 20 19:10 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-elfedit.exe*
      -rwxr-xr-x 2 User 197121  3030119 Nov 20 19:41 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-g++.exe*
      -rwxr-xr-x 2 User 197121  3026926 Nov 20 19:41 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-gcc-10.2.1.exe*
      -rwxr-xr-x 1 User 197121   609607 Nov 20 19:41 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-gcc-ar.exe*
      -rwxr-xr-x 1 User 197121   609607 Nov 20 19:41 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-gcc-nm.exe*
      -rwxr-xr-x 1 User 197121   609607 Nov 20 19:41 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-gcc-ranlib.exe*
      -rwxr-xr-x 2 User 197121  3026926 Nov 20 19:41 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-gcc.exe*
      -rwxr-xr-x 1 User 197121  2165533 Nov 20 19:41 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-gcov-dump.exe*
      -rwxr-xr-x 1 User 197121  2343605 Nov 20 19:41 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-gcov-tool.exe*
      -rwxr-xr-x 1 User 197121  2450233 Nov 20 19:41 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-gcov.exe*
      -rwxr-xr-x 1 User 197121  9605899 Nov 20 19:54 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-gdb.exe*
      -rwxr-xr-x 1 User 197121  3028997 Nov 20 19:41 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-gfortran.exe*
      -rwxr-xr-x 1 User 197121  1412943 Nov 20 19:10 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-gprof.exe*
      -rwxr-xr-x 4 User 197121  2572182 Nov 20 19:10 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-ld.bfd.exe*
      -rwxr-xr-x 4 User 197121  2572182 Nov 20 19:10 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-ld.exe*
      -rwxr-xr-x 2 User 197121  4550029 Nov 20 19:10 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-ld.gold.exe*
      -rwxr-xr-x 1 User 197121 25546567 Nov 20 19:41 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-lto-dump.exe*
      -rwxr-xr-x 2 User 197121  1404945 Nov 20 19:10 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-nm.exe*
      -rwxr-xr-x 2 User 197121  1531656 Nov 20 19:10 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-objcopy.exe*
      -rwxr-xr-x 2 User 197121  1991350 Nov 20 19:10 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-objdump.exe*
      -rwxr-xr-x 2 User 197121  1421598 Nov 20 19:10 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-ranlib.exe*
      -rwxr-xr-x 2 User 197121  1163376 Nov 20 19:10 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-readelf.exe*
      -rwxr-xr-x 1 User 197121  1393083 Nov 20 19:10 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-size.exe*
      -rwxr-xr-x 1 User 197121  1392464 Nov 20 19:10 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-strings.exe*
      -rwxr-xr-x 2 User 197121  1531656 Nov 20 19:10 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-strip.exe*
      

      The same archive file does extract properly under a native Linux Ubuntu 20.04 system, or under Windows 10 using the WSL2 Linux subsystem using xz and tar.

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        spwolf conexware @eperie last edited by

        @eperie Hello, new version has been released with fix for this issue. Can you please update and let us know? Thanks!

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          Mili conexware last edited by

          Hi @eperie

          We have reproduced the issue and it is logged in for fixing, many thanks for letting us know!

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          • Brian Gregory
            Brian Gregory Alpha Testers @Mili last edited by Brian Gregory

            @mili A lot of compressed tar files from linux/unix extract weirdly with PowerArchiver.
            I’ve never been able to figure out what’s going on so I’ve never reported it.
            For instance I often get messsages asking if I want to overwrite that suggest maybe some files are being extracted twice or that the paths are interpreted weirdly to mean several files end up in the same place.

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              eperie @Mili last edited by

              Hi @mili ,

              You are welcome, and thank you for the feedback. Are you planning do update the current thread at the time the issue will have been fixed ?

              Thanks.

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                spwolf conexware @eperie last edited by

                @eperie Hello, new version has been released with fix for this issue. Can you please update and let us know? Thanks!

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                  eperie @spwolf last edited by

                  @spwolf Yes, the fix seems to be working, thank you.

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