Here is the Beta 3 version of the brand new, New Major Version of jv16 PowerTools:
(this version no longer available for download)
Please read the following before downloading
This is beta level software. It means that this version has been made available only for testing purposes. This beta version is slower than the upcoming, official release and the user interface is not final - especially in regards of overall smoothness. There is some flickering when moving between the tools. These general UI issues were not worked on since the Beta 1.
As you probably know, jv16 PowerTools was started over 20 years ago. That means for the longest time it has been a mix of very old code coupled together with new. Year by year, new versions have been made and tweaks and improvements and fixes have been implemented. As you can imagine, this has resulted in a very complex system, prone to bugs and difficult to maintain.
That is why we decided to start all over. Do everything from scratch. Both with the user interface and with everything under the hood. Go back and go through all the user feedback we have received in the past 20 years and basically take everything you love about jv16 PowerTools and build those features from the ground up.
Since this is entirely new code, the system cleaning engine and the registry cleaning engine have not been properly tested yet for safety. We have done a lot of testing already, but not enough. That is why this first beta version is provided as a "read only" testing version. It means you cannot do any changes to your system with this beta version.
From the bottom of my heart I hope you will like the direction we are going with this new version.
Please help us with the development by doing the following:
1) Download and install the jv16 PowerTools NMV Beta 3,
2) Run all of the tools main tools ("Optimize My Internet Connection", "Clean and Speedup My Computer" and "Uninstall Software and Left-Overs"),
3) When back at the Main Screen of the program, go to File > Save As. This will generate a ZIP file to your desktop, with all of the debug logs from the program.
4) Upload the ZIP file to WeTransfer.com (or other similar service), and send the download link to this thread, directly to me via forum Private Message or email it to support@macecraft.com
This would greatly help us with the development as the debug logs file contains information about how the Beta 3 performed, what items it listed as registry errors and what software you have installed in your system. We can use this data to improve the safety and accuracy of the new registry cleaning engine. The more data we get, the faster we get the new jv16 PowerTools released!
Privacy notice: The debug data will contain information of your system, such as the basic hardware setup, what software you have installed etc. If you are running the program in a system with private information, please review the debug data before sending it. We will store and treat all received data as confidential and will not share the data with any third parties.
As always, we will give out free licenses to the best beta testers. If you find and report bugs or provide any other kind of valuable feedback we will give you a free license to the final product.
Change Log (compared to the Beta 2):
1) Fix: The message box can be shown with incorrect colors (partially gray background).
2) Fix: The program can show "Range Check Error" message during Initial Setup.
3) Fix: The main window's bottom panel texts can be displayed partially clipped and not properly vertically centered.
4) Fix: Improved the accuracy of the registry cleaning engine by fixing many false positive detections of the new engine.
5) Fix: The registry cleaning engine does not always detect all types of MRU (Most Recently Used) data.
6) Fix: The program now also supports Windows Server 2016 and Windows Server 2019 operating systems.
7) Improvement: The Clean and SpeedUp My Computer scan now includes file system error scanners and the final set of registry error scanner modules.
8) Improvement: Major accuracy and speed improvements to the Software Uninstaller
9) Improvement: The message boxes can now be closed with the space key as well as the enter key press.
10) Improvement: The program can now detect Avast and other anti virus product's sandbox mode and work better under such conditions.
Change Log (compared to the Beta 3 build 185):
1) Fix: The Internet Optimizer can display "analysis failed" even if there is a working internet connection.
2) Fix: The Clean and SpeedUp My Computer scan can be abnormally slow on some systems.
3) Fix: The program can show error message about "FinalizedData set final name to empty".
4) Fix: The Clean and SpeedUp My Computer scan can show the scan completed message box before the scan progress screen shows 100%.
5) Fix: The program can display "out of memory" or "out of resources" error message.
6) Improvement: Major speed improvements to the Clean and SpeedUp My Computer scan.
7) Improvement: The program now better works with systems with multiple displays. Before, the message boxes would be displayed incorrect and the app could start in wrong display.
8) Improvement: The Internet Optimizer is now faster to handle cases of non working DNS server connections.
How to send your feedback
* Please use the Post Reply button of this thread for all feedback.
* Open the program and go to File > Save As. This will generate a ZIP file containing the debug data from the jv16 PowerTools installation. Send this file to us, even if you don't experience any problems. We can use the collected data to improve the quality of the program.
* If the "File > Save As" method fails, you can do the same manually: Simply create a zip file of the jv16 PowerTools' Debug directory (not the Backups directory as was the case before) - by default this is at C:\Program Files (x86)\jv16 PowerTools Beta2\Debug. IMPORTANT NOTICE: The zip file can contain detailed information of your computer, if you are worried about your privacy, use a service such as https://www.wetransfer.com/ to upload the zip file there and send me the link to the file via a forum Private Message.
* You can send attachments, including screenshots, to the thread from the Post Reply > Upload attachment tab (below the main text area).
* You can also send your 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.
Release Notes:
* Do not start to translate this version to your language yet, there will still be major changes to the language file.
* This version does not yet contain the final set of features.
* Please do not install this version over any previous version, install it to its own installation directory.
* This version is "Read Only" meaning it will not allow you to actually clean or fix your computer yet.
And remember, please send all your feedback regarding this beta version to this thread! Thank you!
