jv16 PowerTools 2007 Beta1 released

jv16

redseujac wrote
The default viewer under Settings > Advanced is Notepad.exe.

When being in File Finder > More Functions > View, I can not view (with Notepad) e.g. found *.pdf-files.

Well, you can double-click the items, this opens the file with its default associated program. Won't that do?

jv16

redseujac wrote
Is it possible (and desirable), when running Registry Compactor, viewing the evolution of the process in the (new) messages window, e.g. "HKLM\Security done!", "HKLM\Software, done!", HKLM\System, done!, etc. ?

Of course, this will be implemented. The idea is to show detailed progress information via the new InfoBox feature (if the Show Advanced Messages option has been enabled, it's disabled by default).

Many parts of the program already suppot this, such as the file cache creation and the Registry Cleaner. All main features will show the progress of the operation in a similar manner in the future (betas and RCs) versions.

tullik

jv16 wrote
redseujac wroteThe default viewer under Settings > Advanced is Notepad.exe.

When being in File Finder > More Functions > View, I can not view (with Notepad) e.g. found *.pdf-files.

Well, you can double-click the items, this opens the file with its default associated program. Won't that do?

Or you can just use "Execute" instead of "View" for file extensions like pdf, doc, rtf, ...

tullik

Registry Cleaner 1.7.0.356 and non-standard data types ...

Registry Cleaner is still not able to backup/remove certain non-standard registry data types, such as the items shown below with data type hex(44c).

RC symptom is messages like:

: Failed to backup "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cyberlink\MediaCache\Data2:\ANIME\Hunter X 3 - Greed Island Final 4.avi"!

: Failed to backup "HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-2736614755-4186107725-1336004102-1010\ Software\Cyberlink\MediaCache\Data2:\ANIME\Hunter X 3 - Greed Island Final 4.avi"!

Regedit does export, delete, import without a single problem ...

Partially edited

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

"C:\\ANIME\\Hunter X 3 - Greed Island Final 4.avi"=hex(44c),ae,ac,42,00,00,\ ...

00,00,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,22,22,22,22,22,22,22,22,33,33,33,33,33,33,33,\

33,44,44,44,44,44,44,44,44,55,55,55,55,55,55,55,55,66,66,66,66,66,66,66,66,\

77,77,77,77,77,77,77,77,88,88,88,88,88,88,88,88,99,99,99,99,99,99,99,99,aa,\

aa,aa,aa,aa,aa,aa,aa,bb,bb,bb,bb,bb,bb,bb,bb,cc,cc,cc,cc,cc,cc,cc,cc,dd,dd,\

dd,dd,dd,dd,dd,dd,ee,ee,ee,ee,ee,ee,ee,ee,ff,ff,ff,ff,ff,ff,ff,ff,00,00,00,\

00,00,00,00,01,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,02,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,03,00,00,00,00,\

00,00,00,04

"C:\\ANIME\\Hunter X 3 - Greed Island Final 3.avi"=hex(44c),6c,b3,42,aa,67,\ ...

"C:\\ANIME\\Hunter X 3 - Greed Island Final 5.avi"=hex(44c),6c,b3,42,aa,67,\ ...

"C:\\ANIME\\Hunter X 3 - Greed Island Final 6.avi"=hex(44c),6c,b3,42,aa,67,\ ...

"C:\\ANIME\\Hunter X 3 - Greed Island Final 7.avi"=hex(44c),6c,b3,42,aa,67,\ ...

00,00,00,0

lashiec

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jv16

Thank you for all the feedback, this message addresses all reports sent so far (or at least attempts to). Please let me know if I missed something.

Issues reported of Beta1 by users

Issue: "One bug i found already is when you create a desktop icon for some of the tools such as the startup manager and directory tool, it only opens the powertools interface."

Reported by: Ryan

Status: Now fixed

Issue: "Only i just have 5 Paritions, and the space allocated under all the drives can be used by the tabs at the bottom. Would be nice if the tabs at the bottom can get more space to the top. Or let the user change its height by a divider or something. "

Reported by: BlackDex

Status: Panel resizing feature added.

Issue: "Also, after defraging a partition, it would be nice to have it analysed again or something. So you can see the difference of a before and after."

Reported by: BlackDex

Status: Now fixed

Issue: "Also, after defraging a partition, it would be nice to have it analysed again or something. So you can see the difference of a before and after."

Reported by: BlackDex

Status: Now fixed

Issue: Registry Cleaner removes some keys by Daemon Tools.

Reported by: easymode

Status: Now fixed

Issue: "1. Add a column showing the registry key where the entries live. This means some items would show with separate counts on more than one line since they may come from different keys.

2. Add a line context menu with a jump to regedit. "

Reported by: tullik

Status: Regedit option added. In a case of multiple registry key storage locations the first one shall be opened, a more sophisticated solution can be added later. An additional colum will not be added due to the possibility of numerous data sources (including multiple registry keys and files in the future).

Issue: PT 2006 and PT 2007 show different counts for certain items of the History Cleaner

Reported by: tullik

Status: Some definition files of PT 2006 contained minor bugs (causing not all history items to be identified), these bugs are now fixed and PT 2007 shows a few more items. As far as I can tell, this is not a bug.

Issue: Progress panels of some tools (e.g. History Cleaners) are shown even if "Don't show the status indicator" setting has been enabled.

Reported by: tullik

Status: Now fixed

Issue: "In the 'Registry Manager' The last 3 tabs arn't filled with the right contents."

Reported by: BlackDex

Status: Now fixed

Issue: Some features now working on Vista

Reported by: rmonroe36

Status: I will try to get some beta version of Vista for more testing.

Issue: Registry Compactor window doesn't have a status bar

Reported by: tullik

Status: Now fixed

Issue: Registry Cleaner freezes during operation

Reported by: tullik

Status: Most likely due to the Debug Mode which is enabled by default in Beta1. Try to disable it.

Issue: Delay in removal of files in File Finder

Reported by: tullik

Status: Couldn't reproduce, can you?

Issue: The "Show messages ..." options presented in the Welcome dialog are not yet implemented in the Settings tool.

Reported by: tullik

Status: Known issue, now fixed.

Issue: Text missing on the File Cache update prompt.

Reported by: Tails

Status: Cannot reproduce, can you?

Issue: Success rate, Show UninstStr, Find no paths buttons Specifically overlap the "Custom Uninstall" button on the right when the window is opened as default size (not maximized).

Reported by: jeremyofmany

Status: Not a bug, the three special buttons are for debug purposes and not normally visible (only in debug mode).

Issue: Is the Safe Mode scan supposed to detect the following file extensions by default?:

.CAT, .INF, .GDP, .XML, .EXP, .INX, .ICC

Reported by: jeremyofmany

Status: No, the safe mode of the File Cleaner should only list *.tmp; *.temp; *.gid; *.chk; *.~*; files. But if other options of the File Cleaner are enabled, for example "Unused shared DLL/ocx files", any files can be listed.

Issue: The "More Functions" button will disappear if I move my mouse outside of its area (to the left) but if I just move the cursor onto the white area w/ grid lines it will not vanish, but on double click (and only on the white area) it will go away. I think this should be changed for to vanish regardless of where the mouse is moved and instantly once the cursor leaves the box.

Reported by: jeremyofmany

Status: Not a bug, it works like designed. If more people state they support the operation defined by jeremyofmany above, it will be changed.

Issue: When I search my C:\ for obvious folder names like "Documents" and "Windows" or even "jv16" it doesn't appear to actually do any searching and shows no results instantly.

Reported by: jeremyofmany

Status: The Skip system directories to improve safety is enabled by default and will cause the tool to fully ignore the Windows' installation dir as well as the Documents and Settings dir (as well as its sub-dirs). Would this solve the issue?

Issue: Diskeeper 2007 reports 219 fragmented files and 2% fragmentation. jv16 2007 reports 237 and 3.57% fragmentation.

Reported by: jeremyofmany

Status: jv16 PT 2007's Disk Defragger counts fragmented directories also as files (because they actually are files), would this solve the issue?

Issue: Disk Defragmenter freezes or crashes on the image generation.

Reported by: (many users)

Status: Trying to locate the bug

Issue: InfoBox messages are not shown if the parent window is maximized

Reported by: wilbertnl

Status: Now fixed

Issue: a minor bug: the "options" tab does not work (either displays "ignore words" tab or "match criteria" tab".)

Reported by: guizop

Status: Now fixed

Issue: "I wish the mach criteria were saved with the preferences. "

Reported by: guizop

Status: They should be, are you saying they are not saved?

Issue: in the duplicate files finder, when a file cannot be deleted (for instance, marked read-only) it is anyhow removed from the tree display.

Reported by: guizop

Status: Now fixed

Issue: Is it possible (and desirable), when running Registry Compactor, viewing the evolution of the process in the (new) messages window, e.g. "HKLM\Security done!", "HKLM\Software, done!", HKLM\System, done!, etc. ?

Reported by: redseujac

Status: Now fixed, are there still other similar "main features" which lack the similar progress view?

Issue: "Also show "HKLM\Security started!", et cetera."

Reported by: tullik

Status: Only the end of procedures are shown, also reporting the start would easily flood the display.

Issue: "And dare we ask for a time stamp on each message (for all tools, not just the compactor)?"

Reported by: tullik

Status: Splendid idea. However, I don't think it looks very good. Well, let me know what you think, it will be in Beta2.

Issues found in in-house testing

Issue: Disk Defragger has the Analyze and Defrag buttons are disabled by default.

Status: Now fixed

Issue: Disk Defragger contains some debug code that could cause the program to crash if the system doesn't have a D:\ drive.

Status: Now fixed

Issue: Sometimes two InfoBox windows show up for the same window, especially when tips are displayed.

Status: Now fixed

Questions

Question: "Since the History Cleaner *.xdat definitions are compiled or encrypted, will you be providing a new way to define MRU items not included in the install? "

Answer: I'm afraid not, the support of dat formated History Cleaner definition files was introduced to PT 2006. We haven't received a single custom-made definition file so far, therefore the support for custom made definition files has been dropped. The files are now encrypted to protect the definition data from being copied to competitive products.

Next release

The Beta2 should be released in this week.

tullik

jv16 wrote
Questions

Question: "Since the History Cleaner *.xdat definitions are compiled or encrypted, will you be providing a new way to define MRU items not included in the install? "

Answer: I'm afraid not, the support of dat formated History Cleaner definition files was introduced to PT 2006. We haven't received a single custom-made definition file so far, therefore the support for custom made definition files has been dropped. The files are now encrypted to protect the definition data from being copied to competitive products.

I wrote the PT 2006 scripts checked in the screenshot that are not in PT 2007, but are probably MRU items present on most XP systems. Where should I send the scripts for you to rework, test, and consider for inclusion in PT 2007?

jv16 wrote
Next release

The Beta2 should be released in this week.

Great!

tullik

jv16 wrote
Thank you for all the feedback, this message addresses all reports sent so far (or at least attempts to). Please let me know if I missed something.

Perhaps these should eventually be looked into:

Non-standard registry data types -- http://www.macecraft.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=7990#7990

Strange task behavior -- http://www.macecraft.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=7950#7950

One Click Cleaner -- http://www.macecraft.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=7952#7952 and

http://www.macecraft.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=7999#7999 and

http://www.macecraft.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=7964#7964

I can workaround this -- fix eventually if you think it may impact anyone else ...

http://www.macecraft.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=7899#7899

tullik

jv16 wrote
Issue: Registry Cleaner freezes during operation

Reported by: tullik

Status: Most likely due to the Debug Mode which is enabled by default in Beta1. Try to disable it.

Actually, I disabled Debug Mode (for speed) before I started testing. The problem only happened the one time ... so I don't think it's likely to be a big deal ... it acted more like a problem in the GUI than in the cleaner scan engine ...

tullik

jv16 wrote

Issue: Delay in removal of files in File Finder

Reported by: tullik

Status: Couldn't reproduce, can you?

These were the files -- I'll see if the situation acts the same ...

Size=256 KB ----- C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Windows\UsrClass.dat.bak_jv16pt

Size=256 KB ----- C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\ntuser.dat.bak_jv16pt

Size=512 KB ----- C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\default.bak_jv16pt

Size=4,864 KB --- C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\system.bak_jv16pt

Size=11,520 KB -- C:\Documents and Settings\LocalService\ntuser.dat.bak_jv16pt

Size=28,928 KB -- C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\software.bak_jv16pt

tullik

tullik wrote
jv16 wrote

Issue: Delay in removal of files in File Finder

Reported by: tullik

Status: Couldn't reproduce, can you?

These were the files -- I'll see if the situation acts the same ...

Size=256 KB ----- C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Windows\UsrClass.dat.bak_jv16pt

Size=256 KB ----- C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\ntuser.dat.bak_jv16pt

Size=512 KB ----- C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\default.bak_jv16pt

Size=4,864 KB --- C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\system.bak_jv16pt

Size=11,520 KB -- C:\Documents and Settings\LocalService\ntuser.dat.bak_jv16pt

Size=28,928 KB -- C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\software.bak_jv16pt

Yes, backup and removal completed with about the same timings as reported before, but a new problem occurred:

1. Instead of returning to a blank File Finder results window, jv16pt.exe went into a 50% cpu loop.

The results window still had two lines on it, but some of the data in the lines belonged to lines which no longer showed (see thumbnail)

Backup tool showed all the removed files were backed up.

I X'ed the FF tool's results window, it went away, the loop stopped, and the tool window regained focus ready for action.

I clicked Start, it did a rescan, and found nothing (expected).

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Possibly file size has a role in this behavior? ...

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Added note: I had closed (X'ed) the main PT window, but just noticed PT is still on the task bar. Repeated clicking causes a null window to "load" repeatedly. That is, a disappearing title bar "floats" from the task bar to the desktop, or from the desktop to the taskbar.

The same behavior was reported in another situation:

Strange task behavior -- http://www.macecraft.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=7950#7950

A close from the task bar worked.

tullik

PT 2007 1.7.0.356 History/MRU Cleaner -- Wordpad.xdat bug ...?

Is Wordpad.xdat supposed to find Wordpad recent files MRU items? If yes, there is a bug ...

Namely, "Basevalue=" should be "Basevalue=File"

tullik

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blackdex

tullik wrote
jv16 wrote

Issue: Delay in removal of files in File Finder

Reported by: tullik

Status: Couldn't reproduce, can you?

These were the files -- I'll see if the situation acts the same ...

Size=256 KB ----- C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Windows\UsrClass.dat.bak_jv16pt

Size=256 KB ----- C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\ntuser.dat.bak_jv16pt

Size=512 KB ----- C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\default.bak_jv16pt

Size=4,864 KB --- C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\system.bak_jv16pt

Size=11,520 KB -- C:\Documents and Settings\LocalService\ntuser.dat.bak_jv16pt

Size=28,928 KB -- C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\software.bak_jv16pt

I Tested it also, and i don't have any delay's what so ever.

Tested it with the same files as above.

Also tested it with some large ISO images on different partitions.

Everything went very quick.

blackdex

File Cleaner - v1.7.0.356 - Progressbar

The progressbar isn't updating at all.

It stays like 20 pixels or something from the side, and stays there untill the searching is ended.

Would be nice if this can be fluidly updated, or change it to the "Please wait..." message.

blackdex

File Organizer - v1.7.0.356

Locks-up/Hangs PowerTools

After i tested the File Cleaner i wanted to start up the File Organizer, and it didn't started at all.

Also CPU Time spiked a few times to ~60%.

And i couldn't start any other tool anymore.

After closing PowerTools and tryed to reproduce it again, i couldn't.

It now starts normaly.

Suggestions:

+ At the Destination directory tab when browsing for a folder, it would be nice if you can use the right-click to create a new folder and rename it.

Now you have to use the Windows Explorer to create a folder, and then select it.

+ When i started a simulation of a large folder to Organize, there is litle to non information about the progress. Sometimes it looks like the Tool is locked-up or something.

Mabye some more information about the current folder(s) it is processing.

tullik

BlackDex wrote
tullik wrote
jv16 wrote

Issue: Delay in removal of files in File Finder

Reported by: tullik

Status: Couldn't reproduce, can you?

These were the files -- I'll see if the situation acts the same ...

Size=256 KB ----- C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Windows\UsrClass.dat.bak_jv16pt

Size=256 KB ----- C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\ntuser.dat.bak_jv16pt

Size=512 KB ----- C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\default.bak_jv16pt

Size=4,864 KB --- C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\system.bak_jv16pt

Size=11,520 KB -- C:\Documents and Settings\LocalService\ntuser.dat.bak_jv16pt

Size=28,928 KB -- C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\software.bak_jv16pt

I Tested it also, and i don't have any delay's what so ever.

Tested it with the same files as above.

Also tested it with some large ISO images on different partitions.

Everything went very quick.

I ran it a third time.

This time:

1. According to the Backup tool, the remove and backup completed quite quickly

2. The File Finder results window stayed up with just the one line for the large software.bak_jv16pt file

3. The jv16pt.exe process is still using 50% of the cpu as I type this

4. I just clicked close on the results window -- the 50% loop stopped

5. I X'ed the tool and x'ed the main window -- jv16pt.exe dropped from the task list

I think File Finder remove/backup is working fine -- it's just some sort of problem in the GUI ...

lashiec

Regarding the History Cleaner, is still possible to send your own definitions for inclusion on the product, isn't it?

blackdex

History Cleaner - v1.7.0.356 - Request/Suggestion

Don't know if this is usefull/wanted.

But i would like to view the found history entries and mabye remove a few and not all.

Would be nice if there would be a second window which lists all the found entries when you want to.

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