jv16 PowerTools 2007 Beta4 released

half

i tryed the same senaro as you and it opens fine on my system,xp also.

From both shortcuts, taskbar and desktop

drob

Duplicate finder - not a bug but an issue, duplicate finder is just too good, what do i mean .. duplicate finder does a too good job of analyzing files, however sometimes a very low commonality is needed to be identified like same name, for instance an mp3 named x1 and a wav file called x1 both are identical in name but deferent in content hence duplicate finder wont find them. i think we need a dumb it up option for duplicate finder, where it focuses on name files only rather then content.

redseujac

I think jv16 won't change that, because he did it that way on purpose.

In his mind duplicate files are files with exactly identical contents !!!

Nothing less, nothing more...

Finding such files is practically impossible without a good tool designed explicitly for that. The Duplicate File Finder is a very easy and straightforward tool for finding those duplicate files.

The Duplicate File Finder uses a triple optimized, bit-by-bit analyzer, which means that it analyzes the contents of the files bit-by-bit to be 100% sure the files are in fact identical.

Be aware that not all duplicate files are safe to remove, usually quite the opposite. Therefore, use of the Duplicate File Finder is only recommended for finding duplicate files from personal collections, such as your own documents or music or video collections.

All that can be found in the English Handbook :

tucatz

Registry Cleaner does not give the user an opportunity to NAME the backup file.

tullik

tucatz wrote
Registry Cleaner does not give the user an opportunity to NAME the backup file.

And it is not just Registry Cleaner ...

drob

@redseujac

I completely understand what your saying, and i think Duplicate finder is a great tool ,but i do believe sometimes you need to find all instances of similar files just by there names, say you have the same MP3 files but in different quality from deferent compilations and so on, you want to see a list of all of them and decide which version of "JV16 you did it again.MP3" you want to keep, i think there should be an option to turn off bit by bit checking and use character only search (i know ace utilities have something similar). i hope JV16 would give it a consideration.

jv16

drob wrote
i hope JV16 would give it a consideration.

Of course, such feature would be rather handy sometimes. It will most likely be added to PT in some future version, perhaps to PT 2008.

blackdex

I Just tested the registry cleaner under Windows Vista x64.

And it seems it can't handle teh system32 folder very well.

It lists files as not existing, while they are actualy on the disk.

jv16

tullik wrote
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 ...

Can you give exact steps how to repeat this problem? I wasn't able to see this problem at all.

jv16

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.

Can you give exact steps how to repeat this problem? I wasn't able to see this problem at all.

jv16

jepe wrote
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 %.

Oh yes, running any filesystem intensive features of jv16 PT with a real-time antivirus product running could cause something like this.

Starting from the next version the program shows a warning if it detects a real-time antivirus program running on the background.

tullik

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jv16

Here are the results of bug fixing of the Beta4 done since the last report. Notice that the Reported by field means the user who was the first to report the problem. If there are errors in these reports, please let me know since these are used when it is decided which users qualify for the free personal license.

Beta4 Bug Fixing Report 2

Issues found by beta testers

Issue: History/MRU Cleaner should be able to list the registry entries and files of specific history item.

Reported by: redseujac & tullik

Status: Fixed in Beta5 and later.

Issue: When analyzing drive it fills in the first line on the drive report, but subsequent tabs give the error message that the drive hasn't been analyzed yet. Rerunning the analyzer does not correct this.

Reported by: dmckay

Status: Fixed in Beta5 and later.

Issue: The minimize button of History/MRU Cleaner window is grayed out.

Reported by: Tullik

Status: Fixed in Beta5 and later.

Issue: When you "Never show again" for a single line (for example, Windows run MRU) in History/MRU Cleaner, the next time you run the tool, many other lines do not show.

Reported by: Tullik

Status: Fixed in Beta5 and later.

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

Reported by: Tullik

Status: Fixed in Beta5 and later.

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

Reported by: Tullik

Status: Fixed in Beta5 and later.

Issues found in in-house testing

Issue: Registry Info tool shows empty message lines when running.

Status: Fixed in Beta5 and later.

jv16

redseujac wrote
Hey jv16

What about following reports:

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

This problem was supposed to be fixed in Beta4 but it seems it's still not fully fixed.

2) this (History/MRU cleaner issues)

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

This issue has been fixed in Beta5 and later. The History/MRU Cleaner will contain a right-click menu option called "Show data..." which lists all the files and registry entries relating to the specific history item.

jv16

bobmunford wrote
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.

This a feature. If you have Message Windows settings enabled and a maximized window shows a message the window will be restored (i.e. un-maximized) in order the Message Window to show.

The "Automatically close the tool windows after the results are shown" is referring to tools with two windows, the start window and the result window. For example, in File Finder you first use the File Finder window to input the settings to search, after the Start button has been clicked the Result window will show. The "Automatically close..." setting defines whether the File Finder window should in this stage be closed or not.

jv16

bobmunford wrote

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.

Please give exact steps how to reproduce the problem, I wasn't able to see this problem in any test environments I tried it.

bobmunford

Registry Cleaner (beta 4)

(1) Upon clicking Fix for a few selected items, the window snapped to restore size. I had to maximize the window to examine the remaining items.

(2) Upon clicking Fix, the former dialog window stating the number of fixed items ceases to show in this beta.

(3) Upon selecting several for "Not to be shown again", the maximized tool window stayed maximized, which is good - unlike the above

jv16

tullik wrote
Another Backup Tool bug?

There is no longer an "Are you having problems?" dialog when you restore a backup.

Perhaps this is by design just for the betas ... ???

Are you certain you have the networking features enabled and that you are restoring a backup containing registry entries?

jv16

BlackDex wrote
I Just tested the registry cleaner under Windows Vista x64.

And it seems it can't handle teh system32 folder very well.

It lists files as not existing, while they are actualy on the disk.

Are there any compatibility modes available under Vista x64 (right click the program shortcut)? If there are, could you try the program with some compatibility mode?

The product has only been tested with 32bit versions of Vista.

jv16

Beta4 Bug Fixing Report 3

Issues found by beta testers

Issue: Disk Defragmenter's caption bar shows a debug number even if the program is not running in Debug Mode.

Reported by: Beaumont Barnabe

Status: Fixed in Beta5 and later.

Issue: The program doesn't always close properly, all windows are closed but jv16PT.exe is still running.

Reported by: Tullik

Status: Fixed in Beta5 and later.

Issue: When analyzing drive Disk Defragmenter fills in the first line on the drive report, but subsequent tabs give the error message that the drive hasn't been analyzed yet. Rerunning the analyzer does not correct this.

Reported by: dmckay

Status: Fixed in Beta5 and later.

Issue: Backup Tool will not show a confirmation for backup removal if Registry Cleaner has been run in automated mode during the same PT session.

Reported by: drob

Status: Fixed in Beta5 and later. The automated mode of Registry Cleaner failed to restore the app back to its normal status. In the automation mode the program doesn't show any prompts or confirmations.

Issues found in in-house testing

Issue: The program can sometimes crash on "Can't focus a disabled window" or "Invalid window handle" error message.

Status: Fixed in Beta5 and later.

Issue: Disk Defragmenter's image generation is too slow.

Status: Fixed in Beta5 and later. The image generation (i.e. after Analyze button has been clicked) took some 25 seconds on large hard disk drive in our test environment with Beta4. In Beta5 the same data was analyzed and image generated in 0.47 seconds.

Issue: Selecting both "Automatically fix found errors" and "Automatically delete found errors" from Registry Cleaner's settings shows an invalid error message.

Status: Fixed in Beta5 and later.

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