Dear developer


There exists a very serious and critical BUG in Startup Manager that should be fixed immediately!!!


After disabling an item, rebooting, enabling that item again and rebooting, the item's registry entries are gone from the registry.


Even without rebooting the BUG appears: you have only to close Startup Manager and open it again after disabling and after enabling!


So the users risk some programs not starting up anymore at boottime without possibility to recover the situation.


Please read very carefully this thread.


Notice: this happens in Vista Ultimate 32-bit OS.

This seems indeed like a bug and a rather serious one as well (altough not critical). A fixed version of PowerTools will be released in next week with this problem fixed.

But there's another very serious problem too to be fixed: backups can't be restored properly and obviously it's due to the same programming faults.


Please read this thread.


I think it's time to abandon a mixed 32-bit/64-bit program and to create two separate ones.


I remember you wrote somewhere that the program would even recognize the 32 or 64 bits OS's: well with the actual mess, I have my heart in my throat thinking about that.

redseujac wrote

I think it's time to abandon a mixed 32-bit/64-bit program and to create two separate ones.

There is no point in that, nor would it solve anything. Instead, it would double all our beta testing and debug efforts and also double the work.


It's very easy to detect whether user is running a 32 bit or 64 bit operating system.

OK, but let's hope (and insist) the programmer and/or its crew will never mix 64-bit things with correct 32-bit ones again :

Fixed version is now released, thank you for reporting!

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Thanks for the response Jouni.


One request though. When the x64 compatible version is released can you make it so that users who have previously had a trial version installed still get the full 30 day trial period.

DooGie wrote
Thanks for the response Jouni.


One request though. When the x64 compatible version is released can you make it so that users who have previously had a trial version installed still get the full 30 day trial period.

Yes, I can do that.

Thanks for that it's much appreciated.


The reason I asked is that up until JV16 PT 2009 I had a valid license through beta testing previous versions. Due to lack of time I didn't beta test 2009 and stayed with the previous releases.

Since moving over to a 64 bit OS I've tried out PT 2009 as a trial but was a bit wary of using it in a x64 environment.


Once the x64 compatible version is released I want to give it a thorough trial before purchasing.