PowerArchiver 2009 11.0 Beta 5  beta

Publisher's Description:

PowerArchiver is an award-winning archive utility for the Windows family of products that provides support for most compressed and encoded files, as well as access to many powerful features and tools though an easy to use interface that seamlessly integrates with Windows Explorer. PowerArchiver natively supports ZIP, 7-ZIP, CAB, LHA (LZH), TAR, TAR.GZ, TAR.BZ2, BH, RAR, ARJ, ARC, ACE, ZOO, GZ, BZIP2, XXE, MIME, UUE and yENC file formats. An internal viewer displays TXT, RTF, and more than 18 image formats.

PowerArchiver creates and works with unlimited size ZIP archives with enhanced ZIP format speed and compression; a Password Manager stores your frequently used passwords; encrypts your archives using 5 different methods including 256-bit AES; backs up your work with PowerArchiver's Auto-Backup tool and FTP support; creates powerful CAB and ZIP self extracting (SFX) archives using a Wizard; a Batch ZIP tool compresses hundreds of files all at once; and a Multi-Extract tool can extract hundreds of archives instantly.

PowerArchiver has the following other editions available: PowerArchiver 2009 German Language and PowerArchiver 2007 French Language.

Latest Changes:

• Significantly improved startup speed when explorer view is on, as well as opening of folder windows
• Copy and Paste implemented in some parts of interface - explorer view when browsing hard disk, preview (text)
• Added Drag and Drop support to Burner
• Improved errors and logging in Backup
• Improved updating of archives on DVD/RW drives in Backup
• Fixed Bug #773: Save session password inconsistent in PA
• Fixed Bug #758: Various specific backup issues
• Fixed Bug #776: Opening files in TAR archives with same filename
• Fixed Bug #771: Relative path does not work in SFX Wizard
• Fixed Bug #772: Spanning archive in shell shows AV,
• Fixed Bug #770: Compress folder in shell does not work (zip)
• Fixed Bug #769: 7z does not ask for overwrite in shell
• Fixed Bug #768: 120dpi issue in registration screen
• Fixed Bug #767: Encrypt tool does not always delete _enc
• Fixed Bug #765: AV when converting 7z to Zip

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Latest User Reviews:

Reviewer:	Skyfrog	Aug 15, 2008
Version:	11.0 Beta 4
"No FULL unicode support (can't handle multi-lingual characters in one file name)." I'm sure all three people that affects are really annoyed about that. I'm sure it will be fixed eventually. "Interface is too large and sluggish." Too large is a matter of opinion, too sluggish is a matter of your computer being junk. Anyway did you know you can easily switch to the classic theme? It even asks which you prefer at install and it's completely customizable. Who uses the GUI anyway, all I ever use are the explorer context menus.
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Reviewer:	jcunews	Aug 15, 2008
Version:	11.0 Beta 4
No FULL unicode support (can't handle multi-lingual characters in one file name). Interface is too large and sluggish. And worst, it's been like this since version 8.
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Reviewer:	Banquo	Aug 15, 2008
Version:	11.0 Beta 4
"I think this used to be free." Yes it was. Actually the program was called EasyZip up until version 5.0 when the name was changed to Powerarchiver. It was still freeware at that time though and was apparently owned by that scumbag company eFront (remember when they ran Betanews? Those were dark days. :P ) The last free version was 6.11 Anyway, the current version is well worth the price in my opinion and lifetime updates are included.
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Reviewer:	pjb	Aug 14, 2008
Version:	11.0 Beta 4
Nice updates. This update works without any problems for me.
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Reviewer:	thomas.tmc	Aug 7, 2008
Version:	11.0 Beta 3
preinterpost is correct. Decent app, but 7zip has an interface akin to WinRar and up to 2/3 better compression than 2.71, plus its open source and free.
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