jv16 PowerTools 2007 Beta4 released

dzjepp

Hi, these are my settings:

- Under window management: All items checked

- Under messaging: Show messages in message windows selected

Now, anytime the 'message window' is displayed (after using file cleaner for instance), closing the results of the window (in this case closing the file cleaner window) seems to close the main jv16 powertools window as well. It doesn't bring back the main jv16 powertools window like it would with 'message windows' disabled. Also at this time, the task manager displays jv16pt.exe still running. I can kill it via end process. I can also run another instance of the app, but once again when the entire app closes because of the above settings, more jv16pt.exe will be added to task manger.

I am using win xp pro sp2.

evest

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tullik

jv16 wrote
Issue: There is no abort (stop) capability when "Status indicator policy" is set to "Don't show the status indicator.

Reported by: Tullik

Status: This is by design. The Abort button is a feature of the Status panel, if the user doesn't wish to see the Status panels the user also doesn't see the Abort buttons. In such cases it would be best to replace the Close buttons with the Abort buttons and this will most likely be implemented in the future but not for PT 2007, I'm afraid.

Tip from the "Status indicator policy" settings:

"Hiding the status indicator allows you to browse the results while, for example, the Registry Cleaner is running."

You can actually browse when the status indicator is not hidden, but it gets in the way!

Sometimes, while browsing a developing list, one sees the information sought, but must let the tool finish. This can take a long time, especially with File Finder.

It will be nice when, in a year or so, we can abort (stop) a list without the wait. Now, it it too bad clicking the "Close" button of a tool while it is scanning throws away the list.

tullik

History Cleaner

1. The minimize widget in the tool's list window is grayed out.

2. When you "Never show again" for a single line (for example, Windows run MRU), the next time you run the tool, many other lines do not show. I had 40 lines, did a never show for 1, then subsequent runs only showed 15.

When I deleted SuperHistoryCleanerIgnoreList.dat, the 40 lines showed again in the next run.

3. This line in my list appears to be a bug:

Author=Recently

Software=Typed URL

History items found=4

Open in RegEdit shows an Explorer Bars item

Show entries button shows two twinned (HKCU+HKUS) Explorer Bars items

... :?

= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =

SuperHistoryCleanerIgnoreList.dat contents:

ItemCount=1

1=Microsoft||Windows run MRU

tullik

File Cleaner

Temp dirs scan: Remove button does not activate when you select lines in the list -- context menu Remove option worked, then the Remove button activated ...

mathurin

Hi,

Trying powertools for the first time, so excuse my ignorance if my posting seems petty.

Have downloaded the beta 4 of JV2007 and have installed it (al least i think i have). when i launch the program after install, it tells me the licence file has expired. so my forst question is does one need a licence file for the beta version?

Secondly, after cancelling the program due to the missing licence, as previously reported, the program task bar pops up on the screen! what is quirky about it is that is does not seem to have a right end to it. i keep moving it to the left of the screen to get to the X button to close it but it seems to go on forever. i ended up right clicking on it and select close.

something tells me it's not meant to behave this way.

any help would be greatly apprciated.

regards,

mathurin

jepe

Disk Defragmenter

The following behaviour happens to me:

Analyzing my C-Partition - 11 Go / NTFS - hangs even after 30 minutes with avp.exe-process around 100 %.

Nor aborting, nor closing every window does bring down or stop this process.

It can only be killed using Process Explorer.

All my other partitions - 8 on the same disk - don't show this behaviour.

Jean-Paul

tullik

jv16 wrote
tullik wrote

If the API returns a reason code, will that be included in the message ... ?

Yes, the API always returns a status code. If everything works out, it returns 0, if it returns anything else the returned code is the error code. This error code is displayed in PT 2007 starting from Beta2.

Similar system will most likely to be implemented to file removal procedures as well before the final release of PT 2007.

There was no error code display in the Registry Finder message box when I tried to remove some items -- see below:

: Failed to backup "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cyberlink\MediaCache\Data2:\ANIME\Hunter X 3 - Greed Island Final 1.avi"!

...

: Failed to backup "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cyberlink\MediaCache\Data2:\ANIME\Hunter X 3 - Greed Island Final 7.avi"!

: All done! 0 B of data was removed (0 registry entries and 0 keys).

= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =

The items have a nonstandard entry data type:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

"C:\\ANIME\\Hunter X 3 - Greed Island Final 1.avi"=hex(44c),\

6C,B3,42,AA,67,FD,40,85,71,B3,42,00,00,00,00,04,40,E9,00,00,00,00,00,01,00,\

00,00,00,00,00,00,04,40,E9,00,00,00,00,00,04,00,00,00,41,00,00,00,D0,02,00,\

00,E0,01,00,00,71,1B,F3,08,00,00,00,00,71,1B,F3,08,00,00,00,00,71,1B,F3,08,\

00,00,00,00,00,12,7A,00,00,12,7A,00,8F,C2,EF,41,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,\

00,00,00,00,00,00,00,04,00,00,00,03,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,FF,FF,FF,FF,FF,FF,\

FF,FF,00,00,00,00,01,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,\

03,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00

...

which Power Tools can not yet handle -- although the items can be removed (or added) with Regedit ...

tullik

tullik wrote
One Click Cleaner; Directory Finder

...

2. Directory Finder no longer honors the "Always ask ..." backup policy setting.

3. One Click Cleaner does not honor the "Always ask ..." backup policy setting.

4. Directory Finder does not backup empty subdirectories. Perhaps One Click Cleaner does not also?

5. One Click Cleaner backups show in the Backup Tool's "Other backups" tab. There is no capability to restore individual files (or registry entries). Therefore, backup TypeCode 114 should show on all three Backup Tool tabs.

Several other tools did not honor the "Always ask ..." and/or "display the generated description for editing" backup policy settings.

redseujac

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redseujac

Hey jv16

What about following reports:

1) (re)read this (jv16PT.exe process not closed) and

2) this (History/MRU cleaner issues)

Is this post of yours an answer to number 2 above?

tullik

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tullik

History Cleaner

I recommend that the debug "Show entries" button be made a permanent feature of the tool, and called "Show items" since files should also be shown. The display would need to be made scrollable.

For registry lines, it improves user understanding of what the cleaner will remove.

For (log) file lines, it could perhaps invoke windows Explorer for the directory containing the files (assumes only one directory). If multiple directories might be involved, perhaps it could invoke the PT Directory Tool filled with the directory or directories ...

tullik

History Cleaner

These two lines, both representing OpenSaveMRU entries, count some items twice:

1) Microsoft | Windows Open/Save dialog | 83

2) Microsoft | Windows | 16

When 2) above is cleared, the count for 1) (after the tool is closed and rerun), changes to 64.

83-16=67; 67-64=3 -- the discrepancy of 3 is because the MRUList entries in 2) are not cleared and apparently not counted consistently.

tullik

dzjepp wrote
Hi, these are my settings:

- Under window management: All items checked

- Under messaging: Show messages in message windows selected

Now, anytime the 'message window' is displayed (after using file cleaner for instance), closing the results of the window (in this case closing the file cleaner window) seems to close the main jv16 powertools window as well. It doesn't bring back the main jv16 powertools window like it would with 'message windows' disabled. Also at this time, the task manager displays jv16pt.exe still running. I can kill it via end process. I can also run another instance of the app, but once again when the entire app closes because of the above settings, more jv16pt.exe will be added to task manger.

I am using win xp pro sp2.

Under window management, I only have screen snap checked, and the strange behavior you describe does not happen -- perhaps that will provide jv16 a clue to the bug ...

Also, when nothing is checked under window management, that strange behavior does not occur either.

half

This program stops at about 11% on defrag and then shows N/A on progress and stops. it shuts down normally after that. On my machine

2.8 AMD

40g HDD

1.5G RAM

Asus M/B

bobmunford

In settings applet, "Automatically close the tool windows after the results are shown" is "checked".

Registry Manager; tab "New file" - upon removing a item (a file extension), the entire window instantly snapped to a "Restore" size (from maximize to the smaller window). According to the above setting, I would think the window would close.

Registry Manager; tab "Open With menu" - the same behavior as mentioned above when removing an item.

File Cleaner; tab "Temp files" - upon selecting "Aggressive" mode, and clicking "Start", I got an "Error ... at least one source directory or uncheck 'List all files that have not been ..." All hard drives were selected (checked), and the "List all files that have ... " was already unchecked. This error was not received in "Save mode", and not any useless temp files were shown - I know that I had a few.

Disk Defragmenter - it appeared to work correctly for me. Tomorrow, I will test it more thoroughly (when I have time). I have never seen a defragmenter reveal so much information as this one!

bobmunford

With jv16 2007 Beta 4 running on the desktop -

(a) I notice that in the Taskbar, it stated that I had two instances of jv16 running - when I did not.

(b) After shutting jv16 down, one supposedly existing instance remained, but upon click it to open, nothing happened. Upon attempting to close this ghost of jv16 at the Taskbar, it did go away.

I experienced this problem with the previous beta. Also, I think that I saw someone else had similar experience. I wish to state that I, too, had the problem.

tullik

Residual jv16pt.exe task

Case 1:

Launch PT from a Quick Launch icon

The main PT window comes up, followed shortly thereafter by the main window message box

Immediately close the main window using the X widget
Both windows and the PT task bar button go away at once

After a short interval, the PT task bar button reappears

It can be minimized, then restored, but there is no window

Task manager shows a jv16pt.exe task; it is residual (i.e., has no window)

The PT task bar button can be closed, and the jv16pt.exe task then goes away

Case 2:

Launch PT from a Quick Launch icon

The main PT window comes up, followed shortly thereafter by the main window message box

Immediately close the main window using the task bar close
Both windows go away at once

The PT task bar button does not go away

It can be minimized, then restored, but there is no window

Task manager shows a jv16pt.exe task; it is residual (i.e., has no window)

The PT task bar button can be closed, and the jv16pt.exe task then goes away

Case 3:

Launch PT from a Quick Launch icon

The main PT window comes up, followed shortly thereafter by the main window message box

Immediately close the message box using the X widget
The message box goes away at once

The PT task bar button does not go away

It can be minimized, then restored, and there is a normal PT main window

Task manager shows a jv16pt.exe task; it is not residual (i.e., has a normal window)

The PT task bar button can be closed, and the jv16pt.exe task then goes away

This exercise strongly suggests the residual jv16pt.exe task is associated with the message box.

redseujac

Confirmed...

I agree totally, Tullik :

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