jv16 PowerTools - NMV - Release Candidate 3 (build 422)

jv16

Here is the Release Candidate version of the brand new, New Major Version of jv16 PowerTools:

(no longer available for download)

Please read the following before downloading

This is Release Candidate level software. It means that this version has been made available only for testing purposes - for you to try the upcoming version and offer us feedback and bug reports. This version is not meant to be used to replace any current version of jv16 PowerTools for everyday use.

Please help us with the development by doing the following:

1) Download and install the jv16 PowerTools NMV Release Candidate.

2) Run all of the tools main tools ("Internet Optimizer", "System Cleaner" and "Software Uninstaller"),

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 this release candidate 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 since Release Candidate 2 build 397 1) Bug fix: Clicking Main Window > File > Save As will show a message with an incorrectly added & character in it. 2) Bug fix: Fixed a small memory leak. Memory leak means that the app didn't release some memory it was using. This causes no harm to the user as Windows will release this memory when the app closes but it was still good to fix. 3) Bug fix: The program could show an error message relating to a path of CD or DVD drive. (very rare issue, only one user reported) 4) Bug fix: The Internet Optimizer may not correctly detect the current DNS servers in some systems, especially the IPv6 servers. 5) Bug fix: The app's message box can get hidden behind the main app window, making it difficult to close. 6) Bug fix: There can be a long delay up to few seconds after making an incorrect input and when actually seeing the error message. 7) Bug fix: Uninstalling software could make the app display Not Responding error message. Usually this was only cosmetic issue but sometimes this would cause the entire app to close whilst uninstalling software. 8) Bug fix: The program can display a warning message saying the System Restore is disabled, even if it is actually enabled in the system. 9) Bug fix: The Internet Optimizer does not always correctly detect IPv6 DNS settings. 10) Bug fix: The System Cleaner can display filenames in the legacy 8.3 short filename format. Such as C:\users\foo~1\temp.tmp instead of C:\users\foobar\temp.tmp 11) Bug fix: The blue category bars in System Cleaner are missing a whitespace, they can say, for example "Temp files- 6 files found", while they should say "Temp files - 6 files found". 12) Bug fix: The Internet Optimizer can display a 0% progress for a very long time. 13) Bug fix: Running the Internet Optimizer many times and always applying the fastest settings, will always lead to new faster settings being recommended. 14) Bug fix: The program can display an Access Violation error message if the Internet Optimizer is started in a system without an internet connection. 15) Bug fix: The Software Uninstaller can display unexpected results or show Range Check Error message in the case you attempt to run it for software without any uninstallation data available, or if you clean the entire input text box of data to be removed. 16) Bug fix: Clicking the Abort button and then running the same tool again can cause the progress screen to be shown without the circular progress indicator. 17) Bug fix: The scroll bar position in the Support page does not reset to the top of the page if the page is closed and then reopened. 18) Bug fix: The Close button in the System Cleaner's report screen may show up without text or be partially blocked by the Never Show Again checkbox. 19) Bug fix: Running the System Cleaner can show up an error message about multi byte support. Improvements: 1) The program is now ready to be translated! To translate the app, simply go to the Translations folder (by default at: C:\Program Files (x86)\jv16 PowerTools\Translations\) and open the English.lng with a text editor that supports reading and saving files in UTF8 encoding, for example the Notepad++ or Atom Editor. 2) Massive speed improvements to the Initial Setup, System Cleaner and Software Uninstaller. 3) The System Cleaner will now suggest the closing of all running browsers to ensure the optimal performance and safety of the browser cleaning features. 4) The Initial Setup message is automatically closed if its still visible when the Initial Setup completes. 5) Major improvements to the accuracy of the Software Uninstaller. 6) The Software Uninstaller will now warn you if you attempt to uninstall a software which is relating to another software not being uninstalled. For example, if you try to uninstall Microsoft Word but not the entire Microsoft Office suite, you will be shown an additional warning that these two software are related and uninstalling one can cause the other to stop working. 7) To ensure your safety, the setup application will attempt to create a System Restore Point during the installation of jv16 PowerTools, and during the first run the app itself will also attempt to create one. 8) If the system has no IPv6 connectivity, the IPv6 information (or the lack thereof) will no longer be visible in the Internet Optimizer. 9) Minor user interface improvements in Internet Optimizer. 10) Major improvements in Software Uninstaller's ability to uninstall software. Both in accuracy, and in number of items found (e.g. relating files and registry entries). 11) Reduced main user interface flickering (still some left when the progress circle is first shown). 12) Major overall user interface improvements, such as better support for the system font, font sizes with PPI scaling and so forth. It is not yet perfect, but much better.

Known bugs and issues we are still working on (no need to report): 1) My Account does not indicate what type of license a registered user has or how long it is valid. 2) Using the browser data cleaning feature of System Cleaner can disable or clean the bookmarks from Firefox browser. So far three users have reported this. We have not been able to reproduce or fix this yet.

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\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:

* You can use this version to start to translate the program to your language. To translate the software: Please open C:\Program Files\jv16 PowerTools\Translations\English.txt with any modern text editor such as Notepad++, translate the texts inside the file and send it to us via support@macecraft.com - we will issue a free license for everyone who translates the software to their language (notice that we are not interested in any kind of computer software based translations, such as Google Translate based translations). Note: The translation file must be saved with UTF8 encoding.

* Please do not install this version over any previous version, install it to its own installation directory.

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

leon_heller

Thanks for the latest release candidate. Just tried it and it seems faster than the previous release. Ecellent!

mrtee

System Cleaner found 0 (zero) errors in all categories. I believe that result to be incorrect.

Ran JV16 RC3 3 more times, same result.

jtstrickland

The candidate showed no errors found while scanning, but when it finished it found thousands. It appears the initial counter (whatever that is) isn't working in release 3 that I downloaded (422).

Also, I had suggested earlier that one should be able to remove drives, such as an attached NAS, from the scanning process. I learned that this can be done in the settings > ignore list by specifing the drive letter, i.e. F:*.*.

I believe that the candidate found software that it had not before, also. It does seem faster.

jts

w7_x64_DELL1_TERRY_253117_Build422.zip

ozboater

Hi Macecraft,

I sent my log.zip to your support email.

Your program is very efficient, and I found no problems with how any of the features work. It has a good clean interface.

The problems I had were with the display

- Text lines squashed on each other hiding the text

- Headings – many vertically truncated headings on most pages ie. The lower ¼ of most heading text did not display, from squashing/vertical truncation.

- The text in program uninstaller, displaying the list of installed software, was too closely spaced - no line spacing at all, giving new meaning to 'wall of text'.

- Also, the links on the support page were inactive (probably intentional due to being a Beta)

My screen is a 30 Hz 65” 4K TV and the W10 display setting for text is set at 200%. I don’t know if this is a cause of the display issue. All pages and menus have now been accessed, and I did not see a setting to increase the font size.

Possibly it is just my setup, and I hope this is not a red herring to chase.

However, the interface is clean and all the program elements appear to work correctly and efficiently.

Cheers,

Ashley

redseujac

First findings with build 422: not so good

1) Initial Setup: slow. Takes more than 5 minutes :

2) Internet Optimizer: take care!!!

Found so to speak 125% faster settings. Applied. After that my computer's IPv6 connectivity was removed : I had to to restore a system restore point from before installing build 422 to get it back!!!

This tool is still not reliable nor trustworthy. Take care. I will not use it anymore until I'm sure it will not ruin my DNS server settings again.

I think this is due to the new code to find IPv6 DNS server settings in this new build. So better remove that IPv6 thing from the tool and stay with IPv4.

3) System scan: didn't find any registry issues. Not normal because I haven't cleared the registry since weeks.

4) Software uninstaller: no remarks.

5) Translation: as usually I'll take care of the Dutch translation I already started with it and normally I'll be ready after the coming weekend.

bt

Internet Optimizer hung at 80% reporting 120% improvement.

System Cleaner paused at 29% and then 30% for a long period then moved on to finish

It found no register error after not cleaning it for 6 months - not possible

It found 10,000 other 'files' to remove

I did not delete anything

Cleaner took down FireFox and Chrome

Software Uninstaller took a long time

Bug data enclosed

olyfant22

My Account

After uninstalling PT RC2 397, rebooting my laptop and installing PT RC3 422 I had to fill in my details (again!) and

restart PT to "get" my licensed version. Is this "normal" or "default"?

I noticed that the "Apply"-button was still active. If you click on it it will again(!) try to retrieve your license-data

which is already there! Ideally, buttons should not be active if there are no changes made.

Scan Report

First time scan duration was 26 seconds and found 39 registry errors, 112 unneeded files and 11 other items.

The blue category header looked like: "Browser cache files - - 88 files found".

Same with the blue category header : "File system issues - - 25 file found".

One too many hyphens and one too many whitespaces!

Miscellaneous

During searching or analyzing there is a choice "Abort scan".

Not only the words "Abort scan", but the whole line (it is on) is clickable..... that is odd....!?

iainaf

When System Cleaner was run, it stated no errors found but the results showed a few thousand. The cleaning process took several minutes and compared to the latest standard jv16 PT product, that appeared to be excessive (ie. the jv16 PT v4.2.0.2009 seems to be faster during the cleaning phase).

ozboater

ozboater wrote

The problems I had were with the display

- Text lines squashed on each other hiding the text

- Headings – many vertically truncated headings on most pages ie. The lower ¼ of most heading text did not display, from squashing/vertical truncation.

- The text in program uninstaller, displaying the list of installed software, was too closely spaced - no line spacing at all, giving new meaning to 'wall of text'.

Note: 4K screen findings.

The overlapping lines of text and headings was fixed by reducing the Display/Scale and Layout/Change size of text, apps and other items from 200% to 175% or less.

At 100% the text spacing seemed correct (as designed), but the text was too small to read.

At 175% there was no text or Heading line overlapping but also no line spacing.

At 200% the text lines overlap and the screens become unreadable.

Users of 4K screens may need an option to enlarge the text to avoid the text overlapping.

For now I will use jv16 PT at 175%.

jv16

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mrtee wrote

System Cleaner found 0 (zero) errors in all categories. I believe that result to be incorrect.

Ran JV16 RC3 3 more times, same result.

This sounds incorrect indeed. Thank you for reporting! We will investigate.

jv16

ozboater wrote

The problems I had were with the display

- Text lines squashed on each other hiding the text

- Headings – many vertically truncated headings on most pages ie. The lower ¼ of most heading text did not display, from squashing/vertical truncation.

- The text in program uninstaller, displaying the list of installed software, was too closely spaced - no line spacing at all, giving new meaning to 'wall of text'.

- Also, the links on the support page were inactive (probably intentional due to being a Beta)

My screen is a 30 Hz 65” 4K TV and the W10 display setting for text is set at 200%. I don’t know if this is a cause of the display issue. All pages and menus have now been accessed, and I did not see a setting to increase the font size.

Possibly it is just my setup, and I hope this is not a red herring to chase.

However, the interface is clean and all the program elements appear to work correctly and efficiently.

Cheers,

Ashley

Thank you for reporting! These mentioned issues are caused by the large screen resolution and the text scaling 200%. At the moment, jv16 PowerTools does not properly support large text scaling settings, but we are working on it. This will be fixed before the final release. Thank you for reporting!

jv16

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BT wrote

Internet Optimizer hung at 80% reporting 120% improvement.

System Cleaner paused at 29% and then 30% for a long period then moved on to finish

Noted, we'll try to improve the smoothness of the progress reporting.

BT wrote

It found no register error after not cleaning it for 6 months - not possible

It found 10,000 other 'files' to remove

What kind of files were they?

BT wrote

I did not delete anything

Cleaner took down FireFox and Chrome

How did it exactly "take down" Firefox and Chrome? Do you mean it closed the browsers? This is by design, however, there is a message query asking for your permission before they are closed.

BT wrote

Software Uninstaller took a long time

Bug data enclosed

Did you send us the Debug Zip file via email?

jv16

Olyfant22 wrote

My Account

After uninstalling PT RC2 397, rebooting my laptop and installing PT RC3 422 I had to fill in my details (again!) and

restart PT to "get" my licensed version. Is this "normal" or "default"?

It's normal as long as long as we are not in the final version of the program. We are still working on the licensing system to migrate everything to our new website.

Olyfant22 wrote

I noticed that the "Apply"-button was still active. If you click on it it will again(!) try to retrieve your license-data

which is already there! Ideally, buttons should not be active if there are no changes made.

We rather keep all the buttons visible and enabled ("active") at most times, and instead display an error message in case something is wrong. Simply hiding or disabling a button is not very user friendly, because the user has no way of knowing why the button is disabled or missing.

Olyfant22 wrote

Scan Report

First time scan duration was 26 seconds and found 39 registry errors, 112 unneeded files and 11 other items.

The blue category header looked like: "Browser cache files - - 88 files found".

Same with the blue category header : "File system issues - - 25 file found".

One too many hyphens and one too many whitespaces!

Nice catch! This bug will be fixed in the next released build.

Olyfant22 wrote

Miscellaneous

During searching or analyzing there is a choice "Abort scan".

Not only the words "Abort scan", but the whole line (it is on) is clickable..... that is odd....!?

This is an interesting observation, thank you! This is how the "abort" button is positioned in the window. But I agree, it seems odd from the user's point of view. I'll see if there is anything I can do about it.

redseujac

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jv16 wrote

redseujac wrote

First findings with build 422: not so good

redseujac wrote

4) Software uninstaller: no remarks.

How was its speed? Before you have reported both the Initial Setup and the Software Uninstaller opening times to be very slow. We have worked a lot in trying to make them faster.

The speed of Software Uninstaller was OK, but the Initial Setup was slow (took more than 5 minutes on my system).

olyfant22

jv16 wrote:Olyfant22 wrote: ↑Sat Nov 30, 2019 7 pm

I noticed that the "Apply"-button was still active. If you click on it it will again(!) try to retrieve your license-data

which is already there! Ideally, buttons should not be active if there are no changes made.

Without trying to convince anyone.... just my 2 cents....

All-in-all I do, of course, except & respect your explanation (for it is a valid one!) but I have to respectfully agree to disagree.

I dabble in programming & automation in Excel(VBA) a lot and therefore make use of the VBA Userform frequently.

In my experience the user isn't that ignorant, because if one opens a window and one doesn't fill in any of the appropriate boxes or make any changes then there is no need for a user to click on the "Apply"-button and therefore the "Apply"-button can be disabled (inactive).

Even worse, if one clicks on the "Apply"-button without any cause and nothing happens(...) THEN the user will get confused, for nothing happens!

To be clear, I am also not a fan of hiding unneeded buttons! :

You can make use of so-called errormessages, but if one already has filled in the appropriate boxes and already clicked on "Apply" then you should let an errormessage pop-up in case the "Apply"-button is used again in vain.

To me it seems more logical, more aesthetic, easier and user friendly to enable/disabled buttons if (not) needed.

But hey.... sorry, that's me.... just my 2 cents... : :

olyfant22

jv16 wrote:Olyfant22 wrote: ↑ Sat Nov 30, 2019 7 pm

Scan Report

The blue category header looked like: "Browser cache files - - 88 files found".

Same with the blue category header : "File system issues - - 25 file found".

One too many hyphens and one too many whitespaces!

Nice catch! This bug will be fixed in the next released build.

Also the blue category header looked like: "Temp files - - 13 files found".

One too many hyphens and one too many whitespaces!