I'm very happy to announce the release of jv16 PowerTools - Next Generation - Build 1024 BETA.
You can download it here:
https://jv16powertools.com/downloads/special/jv16PT_Build1024_Beta.exe
This is a beta version of our upcoming, next generation jv16 PowerTools. We are releasing this beta version to ask for your feedback. What do you like, what do you dislike? Do you notice any bugs? What would you change to make it a better program?
Almost exactly one year ago we released the then new jv16 PowerTools with dramatically changed user interface and more reduced set of features. You, our beloved users, did not entirely love that. We got a lot of feedback about these decisions and based on the feedback, we took a long hard look on what we had done. First, we rebuilt the entire user interface. Not only that, we changed the plans of what we want to do with jv16 PowerTools. In short, we will take the product more towards how it all started, as a set of tools for the more advanced computer users. Focusing on doing things Windows cannot do. Making Windows better, basically.
I must be entirely honest with you - the last year was very difficult for us. Not only the things happening around the world and the economy, but the fact that we spent a long time building a new product and at the end, you did not like it. Not only was that hard mentally, it was also difficult for our bottom line. In fact, I received the numbers from accounting today and last year our sales did not even cover our costs. And the only person I can blame for this is myself. I made the decisions and they were not correct. I can see that now.
But now it is time to look forward.
We spent a lot of time on developing this next generation of jv16 PowerTools. Not only the new user interface, but every single feature is now improved and refined. In the terms of accuracy, safety and, of course, performance. That being said, please remember this is still a beta level software and it will have bugs. You should only use this version in a system that you can restore in case something goes wrong.
There are two major features that did not yet make it to this first beta version. We have a brand new Internet Optimizer and brand new Automatic Updates features. Both rebuilt from scratch to address the issues you have been reporting. These two features are not yet included in this version. They are 99% done and will be included to the next released beta version.
I hope you will give this version a try and let us know what you think. Because, you are the reason why we are doing this.
And if you like where we are going with jv16 PowerTools, please consider buying a license. After the release of this new version, we will probably need to increase the prices of any new licenses to try to cover our costs and buying now would secure you the lower price point. Thank you.
How to update:
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.
The language interface will still change, so we do not recommend updating the translations just yet.
