Major update again for jv16 PowerTools!
You can download the new version from here: https://jv16powertools.com/downloads/jv16pt_setup.exe
This update brings two new features: Finder and Duplicate Finder for searching for data from your computer with advanced set of options. In addition, there are quite a few small bug fixes and performance improvements. For example, the Initial Setup is again faster. With the last version, the average Initial Setup runtime was 47 seconds, now it's down to 36 seconds. Same applies to the average time from starting the app to the moment the program has fully started: it's now down from 6 seconds to 3 seconds.
The major news with this version is two new features:
1) Finder. This tool allows you to search for files and registry data with more advanced set of features compared to the Find All feature. Find All is your quick way to find what you want. The Finder is for you when you want to be more detailed what to find and from where.
2) Duplicate Finder. This tool allows you to find duplicate files. The duplicate detection can work either by file content, listing you files which have 100% bit-by-bit identical content, or by filename allowing you to list files with identical names. Or, both: duplicate files with identical content and name. This feature is designed for finding duplicates from your file collections, such as collections of documents, pictures or movies.
If you are using any recent jv16 PowerTools (5.0.0.x) - simply install the new version over the old version. No uninstallation is required or recommended.
If you are using an older version, please uninstall it before installing the new version, or install the new version to another directory. As you might know, jv16 PowerTools also support automatic updates so you should get the update also automatically. However, there is a designed delay in this process (in order to avoid every single installed version of the program downloading the same file from our servers the same time), so if you wish to update to the new version right now, simply download the file from the link above and install it.
Change Log since Build 786
Fixes:
1) Support page can have too much empty space between the texts.
2) Maximizing the program window on a system with multiple displays may not work correctly, the window size can be set incorrectly too large or too small.
3) The program's main window can show with a default size and position in a way it is behind the Windows task bar. This is rare and would only happen with specific screen size and scree resolution settings.
4) Pressing Ctrl + A while a text box is active does not select all the text within that text box.
5) If file deletion fails in Find All, there can be a flood of error messages about each failure. The number of these error messages is now limited.
6) The tip message about being able to use filtering with the results is shown before the actual results are on screen.
7) It's not possible to translate the default text of the home screen's Find All text input box.
8) The splash screen texts can overlap when using non English version of the program.
9) Using the Filter panel in Software Updater can cause the result list to become empty and not update again unless the tool is restarted.
Improvements:
1) New tool: Finder allows you to search for file system and registry data with an advanced set of options.
2) New tool: Duplicate Finder allows you to search for duplicate files with many settings.
3) Major accuracy improvements to the Software Updater.
4) Minor improvements to the accuracy of the Software Uninstaller.
5) The installation of jv16 PowerTools now automatically clears the cache and debug data of possibly existing old jv16 PowerTools directory.
6) If there is not enough horizontal space to draw the tool's action buttons and the filter panel, the close button will now be shrunk to a small X button. Previously, the Filter panel would be hidden, and this was confusing and was reported as a bug.
7) Added a placeholder text for the result list filtering feature to make it easier to see you can filter the result list by entering search words to the search area.
8) The tip message boxes now show a different icon compared to the normal message boxes.
9) The main window UI can now better handle long tool names in non English versions of the program.
These are the currently known bugs and issues that we are aware of and are working to fix in the near future.
Known Issues:
1) The support for 4K displays is not yet perfect, however, it is already quite usable.
2) System Cleaner's browser cleaning module does not support the new Chromium based Microsoft Edge.
3) The System Cleaner and Software Uninstaller Right-Click menus do not yet have the Add To Ignore List feature.
4) Duplicate Finder will list at most 2000 duplicate files.
