jv16 PowerTools 2012 Beta2

jv16

Here is the Beta2 version of jv16 PowerTools 2012:

(version no longer available for download)

Please read the following before downloading

Remember that this is beta level software. This means that this version has been made available only for testing purposes. This version contains bugs and can potentially damage your computer and mind.

It's not recommended to use or even install this software to a production use computer. Running the software only on a test setup or a virtual machine is highly recommended as running this beta level software can be dangerous.

As always, we will give out free licenses to the best beta testers. If a beta tester already owns a license we can also issue VIP and Platinum VIP packages for free, or other such prizes.

However, you are not entitled for any kind of free license by simply downloading these beta versions. Free licenses are given out only to beta testers who give us valuable feedback, such as bug reports or improvement ideas. We will publish the list of users who won a free license after the final version of the product has been released, not before. All free licenses are decided on case-by-case, sometimes it takes just one message with two lines to earn a license (e.g. if you found a really good bug that no one else reported), sometimes it takes much more.

How to send your feedback

* Please use the Post Reply button of this thread for all feedback.

* If you are reporting a bug, please give as much information as possible in regards what steps are required to reproduce the problem. Also let us know what version of Windows you are using. There is no need to post the hardware configuration of your computer, unless asked.

* If you wish to report that you have tested all the features of the program, please include to your post the Debug Report as generated by the Program Debug Tool (under the Debug menu of the Main Window).

* You can send attachments, including screenshots, to the thread from the Post Reply > Upload attachment tab (below the main text area).

* If you are reporting a bug that is not obvious, please include the Debug Log to your report. Note: the Debug Log contains information about your computer, if you do not wish other users to see all this information, you can use the Private Messages feature to send the Debug Log to us.

* If you are reporting a False Positive by the Registry Cleaner (or by "Clean and fix my computer" tool), there is no need to send a Debug Log, this version does not have debug log enabled for the Registry Cleaner to show its true performance. To report a False Positive, simply send a Screenshot of the False Positive, and say what settings of the Registry Cleaner you are using.

* You can also send you general feedback, how you feel the program works for you or if there is something you don't understand, or if some feature doesn't work the way you expected. Feedback like this is sometimes even more valuable than bug reports.

How to create a Debug Log

* If the problem doesn't cause PowerTools to crash: Go to the Main Window, open Debug menu and select "Save Debug Log". The Debug Log is saved to your Desktop.

* If the problem causes PowerTools to crash: Go to the installation directory of the program (c:\program files\jv16 PowerTools 2012 BetaX\ by default) and create an empty file called "DebugMode.dat" there. Then start the program and re-create the problem. The Debug Log is being automatically saved to your desktop as you use the program.

Release Notes:

* Do not start to translate this version to your language yet, there will still be major changes.

* Do not install this version over any existing version of PowerTools.

What's New (compared to PowerTools 2012 Beta1)

Bug fix: SetAppID.exe can show an error message or crash after jv16 PowerTools has been installed. Bug fix: There can be some cosmetic screen corruption when working with the result lists. Bug fix: The Registry Cleaner can list empty file extension keys as safe to remove, even as those keys are needed by some third party software. Bug fix: Using the Disk Wiper to wipe all files of an empty directory causes the tool to crash to "divizion by zero" error. Bug fix: There can be minor screen corruption in the Main Window if the scroll bars are visible. Bug fix: When Disk Wiper finishes, its window closes and PowerTools keeps running on the background. Bug fix: The Immunization Tool reports "No new data to add to the hosts file!" and does nothing. Bug fix: The list "Installed Software without uninstall info" shows many entries, however a lot of these listed entries show no data when tried to uninstall. Bug fix: Running Debug > Program Debug Tool causes the product to crash in some systems. Bug fix: All the new tools of the main window, such as the Immunize My Computer, do not contain any tool tips. Bug fix: Go to 'Main menu' -> 'Tools' -> 'Program maintenance' -> 'Flush cache' + rebuild cache and the program crashes to access violation after restarted. Bug fix: Holding down the right mouse button over the result list causes screen corruption (red line). Bug fix: The File Recovery tool doesn't work properly when using it to find files of specific size (e.g. 2 KB - 2 GB). Improvement: Some tools use the term "remove" and some use "delete", this is most illogical. Improvement: The Software Uninstaller can now find more left over data of installed software. Improvement: The filter feature of the result lists now works much faster.

What's New (compared to PowerTools 2011)

1. New tool: Immunize My Computer. This feature allows you to update your system's hosts file with a single click. The hosts file is used to blacklist known malware spreading websites, the list of bad websites is updated by http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm

2. Easier access to Mass file rename, merge files, split files, remove files on reboot, find and replace data inside files and wipe files features from the main program window.

3. New powerful scanning features added to the Clean and Fix My Computer.

4. Greatly improved performance of the Software Uninstaller, both in its ability to find and list software leftover, and to uninstall the data.

5. Improved performance of the Disk Wiper.

6. Improved accuracy of the registry cleaner engine.

7. Fully supports Windows 8.

8. Updates to translation files are now downloaded automatically from our server, no need to download the entire program again only to get a new version of a translation.

9. Settings tool now allows user to easily create shortcuts to jv16 PowerTools to the Windows desktop and start menu.

10. Major improvements to the graphical user interface.

11. Major performance improvements to the entire product.

And remember, please send all your feedback regarding this beta version to this thread! Thank you!

arctucas

The weekend of December 10-11, or the weekend of December 17-18?

jv16

Arctucas wrote
The weekend of December 10-11, or the weekend of December 17-18?

I was referring the weekend of December 10-11 but the release was postponed to get some more fixes included. Hopefully the Beta2 will be released later today or tomorrow.

jv16

The Beta2 is now available, please re-report if it contains any bugs reported with Beta1. There were so many reports I might have missed some fixes.

parkd1

When I start Power tools it show the right icon in the task bar. When I on any of the tools then go back to the main screen where I picked the tool the Icon in the task bar changes to the pdf icon in the task bar.

leonardo

XP-SP3 with jv16PT2012 beta2:

EDITED wednesday 14th dec, 08

1.Go to main window ->settings -> 'Integration with windows' -> Icons in Jump/start menu -> check item -> click OK.

After the "specified path not found" application error the application can now be 'continued', 'restarted' or 'closed'. However the checked 'icon item' is now unchecked and that item is not added to the Jump/Start menu. The attached file 'jv16pt_settings_debuglog.zip' contains Bugreport.txt + DebugLog. html.

2. Open the Immunization feature and then closing it.

Upon reopening the Immunization feature it generates an repeatable Access Violation error. See attached 'jv16pt_Immunize.zip' file for Bugreport.txt and DebugLog.html

siliconman01

Bug fix: SetAppID.exe can show an error message or crash after jv16 PowerTools has been installed.

SetAppID.exe is crashing when installing Beta2 on Windows 7 SP1 x64 Professional. It does not crash on Windows 7 SP1 x86 Professional.

The system Event Viewer info is below:

Faulting application name: SetAppID.exe, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x4e8b20d7

Faulting module name: SetAppID.exe, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x4e8b20d7

Exception code: 0xc0000005

Fault offset: 0x0000519a

Faulting process id: 0x124c

Faulting application start time: 0x01ccb9ab9eba39da

Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\jv16 PowerTools 2012 Beta2\Uninstall\SetAppID.exe

Faulting module path: C:\Program Files (x86)\jv16 PowerTools 2012 Beta2\Uninstall\SetAppID.exe

Report Id: dd35720a-259e-11e1-b380-0019d16d6468

leonardo

XP-SP3 with jv16PT2012 Beta2:

1. Compared to beta-1 the 'Installed SW without uninstall info' shows less items(-12) without registry data.

2. My current beta-2 list shows 54 items and at least 10 items still say 'no registry data' when I try to uninstall them.

abide.in.the.vine

After opening the immunize feature once and then closing it, upon reopening the immunize feature it then crashes JV16 Power Tools. Tested three times and it consistently crashed each time.

Running Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 (64-bit)

vasek

Bug fix: When Disk Wiper finishes, its window closes and PowerTools keeps running on the background.

Confirmed :-)

But:

1. The button Abort does not work - PowerTools keeps running on the background. See jv16PT_debuglog_DiskWiper2.html and jv16PT_debuglog_DiskWiper3.html.

2. Internal Error after operations "Wipe all files and directory structures" and "Wipe all data (all files, directory structures and free space)". See Disk_Wiper.jpg

vasek

1. Shortcuts (menu Tools -> Add shortcut to Desktop for) are obsolete (look of icons is from jv16 PowerTools 2011).

2. Settings not loading. Steps to reproduction:

a) Click on the Settings

b) Switch to another application by using Alt+TAB

c) Switch to jv16 by using Alt+TAB

d) Click on the Settings again

See jv16PT_debuglog_settings.html

BTW: "Switching" Alt+TAB does not work for many tools - this is an old bug... It's agreeable that the "switching" works by all the new tools of the main window.

vasek

Action History does not show adding a new startup item in the Startup Manager. Is it by design?

vasek

Minor issues:

1. The first and the second sentence are exchanged in the Live Support´s window. The first sentence should be "Live Support feature allows...". More information here.

2. Tip in the Anti-Malware´s window should be moved down and it should be changed to plural ("... directories to these boxes.").

See tip.jpg.

vasek

The Immunize my computer crashes (after click on the icon) on PC without Internet connection. See bugreport_immuni.txt and jv16PT_debuglog_immuni.html.

vasek

The button Close in all the new tools of the main window (Mass file rename, merge files, split files, remove files on reboot, find and replace data inside files and wipe files features) closes PowerTools (no return to Main window). PowerTools keeps running on the background. See jv16PT_debuglog_ background.html

tullik

tullik wrote
Software Uninstaller list:

1. The group collapse/expand checkbox is missing.

The above issue in beta1 is still present in beta2.

Backup Tool:

The Abort button of all three icons does nothing. Also, it stays red when clicked.

tullik

Action History:

1. Use the Directory Finder to list and delete empty subdirectories in the system's temporary directories.

2. Backup creates successfully with ID 00198E.

3. Using Action History to find the backup produces this message: ": Could not locate backup with ID 00198E!"

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siliconman01 wrote
Bug fix: SetAppID.exe can show an error message or crash after jv16 PowerTools has been installed.

SetAppID.exe is crashing when installing Beta2 on Windows 7 SP1 x64 Professional. It does not crash on Windows 7 SP1 x86 Professional.

Apologies, it seems an older version without the bug fix was accidentally shipped with Beta2.

leonardo

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tlstevens

On first startup it shows I have been using beta 2 for 0 days but used it 1 time. Does the 1 time mean just opening the program or is that for using at least one of the tools? I haven't run any tools yet.

would like to see tools minimized to taskbar not to a small bar above the taskbar. I multitask often and when viewing a web page the tools restore bar gets hidden and I have to minimize the web page to get it back. If that is not possible would it be better to make it stay in front of any open window?

columns need to have a some settings tweaked. I run registry cleaner and the column names are all bunched together at the left side. Shouldn't these have a default fixed width that the user can then modify as needed.

What does the deep trace find? If it is supposed to find left over pieces from uninstalled software? For me it is showing Microsoft Word and Access entries, not sure if this is supposed to happen or not. Both programs are installed. Word had to reinstall after beta 1 because the registry cleaner removed a file it needed.