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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 Beta2)
Bug fix: SetAppID.exe can show an error message or crash after jv16 PowerTools has been installed.
Bug fix: Backup Tool: The Abort button of all three icons does nothing. Also, it stays red after clicked.
Bug fix: Immunization tool doesn't show the number of lines to be added correctly.
Bug fix: Tip in the Anti-Malware´s window should be moved down and it should be changed to plural ("... directories to these boxes.").
Bug fix: 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.
Bug fix: Open the Immunization feature and then closing it. Upon reopening the Immunization feature it generates an repeatable Access Violation error.
Bug fix: Go to main window ->'settings' -> 'Integration with windows' -> 'Icons in Jump/start menu' -> check the 'Backup' item -> click Ok. Only after the sequence close+start+close of jv16PT the Clean and fix my Computer icon shows up in the Jump/Start menu. Clicking on this CFMC icon however starts the jv16PT Backup function!
Bug fix: File Recovery: all the boxes (rectangles) must contain some numbers or text, even with "Look only for files of specific size" disabled, if not you get the warning I mentioned in my original post and the tool does not work.
Bug fix: Action History does not show adding a new startup item in the Startup Manager.
Bug fix: The Immunization tool can add duplicate items to the hosts file if the hosts file already contains data.
Bug fix: The Registry Finder (and Registry Find and Replace) does not always find data which is stored in the default value of a registry key.
Improvement: It's now possible to tell the Immunization tool to not to block certain websites, like Google ads.
Improvement: You can no setup the program to run the Immunization tool automatically every time PowerTools starts.
Improvement: The Registry Cleaner should now find a few more errors, due to a bug fix inside the engine.
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!