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An updated version of jv16 PowerTools has been released. The latest version number is 5.0.0.668.
Change Log Since Build 608
Bug Fixes
- The program could sometimes get stuck to a 90% or 99% scan progress for extended period of time.
- Maximizing the program window can cause it to get too big, covering the Windows task bar.
- System Cleaner’s settings look slightly confusing if there are no browsers installed in your computer yet the Settings window still has the browser data cleaning related texts visible.
- If a message box opens while a Right Click menu is active the program can freeze in a way you cannot close the message box nor click anywhere in the Right Click menu.
- Software Uninstaller can in some systems list some installed software twice, especially the Microsoft Edge browser.
- Moving the mouse cursor around the main window can cause the tool caption texts to randomly move by one pixel left or right.
- System Cleaner, Software Uninstaller and the Find All results can forget the set column widths and always start with the first column resized very small.
- Saving a results list from File > Save List as produces a file without any file extension if you only write a filename without file extension.
- Uninstalling certain software, such as CDBurnerXP, can cause the Software Uninstaller to get stuck and never complete. This only occurs with some systems, and with some software being uninstalled.
- Pressing Ctrl + A to select all the items of System Cleaner, Software Uninstaller or Find All results may trigger the result list filter update to run again. This is a cosmetic issue but nevertheless, annoying and now fixed.
Feature Improvements:
- New Feature: Software Uninstaller now shows the size of each installed software, their installation date and as an unique feature, the impact each installed software has on your system’s performance.
- New Feature: Real-time searching of the result lists in System Cleaner, Software Uninstaller and Find All. This makes working with large lists very easy.
- New Feature: Popup window to show detailed information about the found items of System Cleaner, Software Uninstaller and Find All result list.
- Massive improvements to the speed of the Initial Setup. Before, it took on average 97 seconds. Now, it takes on average only 48 seconds.
- Massive improvements to the speed of the Software Uninstaller. With previous build, the average scan time was 60 seconds, now it’s 35 seconds.
- Major improvements to the overall smoothness of the user interface. In our testing systems, we monitor cases when the program’s user interface takes a long time to respond to our input. The average slow respond time of the last version was 2700 msec and now it’s down to 1500 msec.
- The program will now automatically detect and add to the Global Ignore List the installation folders of detected anti-virus software. This helps to ensure jv16 PowerTools does not touch any data of any installed anti-virus software.
- All the buttons within the program now look the same in all versions of Windows.
- The size of each button is now better adjusted based on the length of button text.
- Tools > Maintenance > Flush jv16 PowerTools Cache feature now also clears all the jv16 PowerTools debug logs.
- The program will now attempt to detect a case of it updated by user installing a new version over the old version and if that is detected, an Initial Setup is triggered to run.
- The software now uses less memory (RAM) to work.
- Added an option to hide the result filtering feature to Settings.
- Pressing the Esc key from keyboard will now close any open filter panel, and any open result list popup info panel.
- The System Cleaner’s scan report is now disabled (no longer shown), until we complete its redesign.
- Software Uninstaller’s Show All Data window that shows all of the found data relating to an installed software no longer automatically closes.
- Software Uninstaller’s Show All Data now also tells you the exact number of files and folders, and registry keys and entries found relating to the selected software.
- Improved the smoothness of Software Uninstaller’s progress reporting.
- The program is now much better at preventing multiple instances of itself from being launched. Before, you could accidentally run more than one instance of the programs and it could take many seconds before the duplicate instance was closed.
- Reduced the time it takes for the initial screen of the program to show up. Before, it could be up to five seconds.
- Added a command line parameter option to start jv16 PowerTools Find All feature. You can now use a command line parameter jv16pt.exe -FindAll “Search word”.
- Added an additional confirmation to the Settings window if user chooses to disable any safety features. You can disable the safety checks, but it will ask to confirm if you are sure you know what you are doing.
How to update:
If you are using any recent jv16 PowerTools (5.0.0.x) – simply download and 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.
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https://jv16powertools.com/updated-version-5-0-0-786/ jv16 PowerTools Update Released – Version 5.0.0.786
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September 10, 2020
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September 10, 2020 Release Notes
An updated version of jv16 PowerTools has been released. The latest version number is 5.0.0.786.
Change Log Since Build 730
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https://jv16powertools.com/updated-version-5-0-0-798/ Release Notes
An updated version of jv16 PowerTools has been released. The latest version number is 5.0.0.798. Feature Improvements:
New tool: Finder allows you to search for file system and registry data with an advanced set of options.
New tool: Duplicate Finder allows you to search for duplicate files with many settings.
Major accuracy improvements to the Software Updater.
Minor improvements to the accuracy of the Software Uninstaller.
The installation of jv16 PowerTools now automatically clears the cache and debug data of possibly existing old jv16 PowerTools directories.
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.
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.
The tip message boxes now show a different icon compared to the normal message boxes.
The main window UI can now better handle long tool names in non English versions of the program.
Bug Fixes
Support page can have too much empty space between the texts.
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.
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.
Pressing Ctrl + A while a text box is active does not select all the text within that text box.
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.
The tip message about being able to use filtering with the results is shown before the actual results are on screen.
It’s not possible to translate the default text of the home screen’s Find All text input box.
The splash screen texts can overlap when using non English version of the program.
Using the Filter panel in Software Updater can cause the result list to become empty and not update again unless the tool is restarted.
Known Issues:
Support for 4K displays is not yet perfect, however, it is already quite usable.
System Cleaner’s browser cleaning module does not support the new Chromium based Microsoft Edge.
System Cleaner and Software Uninstaller Right-Click menus do not yet have the Add To Ignore List feature.
Duplicate Finder will list at most 2000 duplicate files.
If you are using any recent jv16 PowerTools (5.0.0.x) – simply download and 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. Download: https://jv16powertools.com/downloads/jv16pt_setup.exe Digital Signature ( Macecraft Software ) jv16 PowerTools 5.0.0.798 Was Scanned Clean With Avira Antivirus Free & Hitman Pro 3.8.20 & 100% Clean Of viruses, trojan horses, worms, spyware, backdoors, rootkits, adware and other malware infections,
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https://jv16powertools.com/updated-version-5-0-0-832/ Release Notes
An updated version of jv16 PowerTools has been released. The latest version number is 5.0.0.832.
Change Log Since Build 798
Feature Improvements:
Major speed improvements to Software Uninstaller and Software Updater scans.
Minor improvements to the accuracy of Software Uninstaller.
Minor performance improvements to Find All and the Finder tool.
Bug Fixes
Maximizing or unmaximizing the main window by double clicking the top window bar does not work properly.
If you maximize the main window, then minimize it, clicking the jv16 PowerTools in Windows task bar does not restore its window and the program can remain invisible.
The Please restart jv16 PowerTools message box can be shown with the wrong message box icon.
Software Uninstaller and Software Updater can show wrong version number for some software, for example Speccy.
Uninstalling many software at the same time can cause the progress screen to display incorrect paths. For example, if you are uninstalling Winzip and Winrar, during the uninstallation of Winrar, the progress screen could say it is processing C:\Program Files\Winzip\. This is a purely cosmetic problem relating to the user interface. No incorrect data is removed, or data of other software.
Uninstalling certain software can cause the system to reboot incorrectly. This is caused by Software Uninstaller not detecting a certain type of reboot now or later selector in the app’s uninstaller.
The scan progress screen of Find All and Finder tool can display incorrectly large number of results found. This is purely a cosmetic issue, the user interface simply counted the data wrong and that is why the number of items found shown on screen does not always match the final number of found items.
Known Issues:
Support for 4K displays is not yet perfect, however, it is already quite usable.
System Cleaner’s browser cleaning module does not support the new Chromium based Microsoft Edge.
System Cleaner and Software Uninstaller Right-Click menus do not yet have the Add To Ignore List feature.
Duplicate Finder will list at most 2000 duplicate files.
How to update:
If you are using any recent jv16 PowerTools (5.0.0.x) – simply download and 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.
Download: https://jv16powertools.com/downloads/jv16pt_setup.exe
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https://jv16powertools.com/forum/viewtop...=45&t=6151 New jv16 Powertools build 5.0.0.845 - A quick update
Post by jv16 » Tue Oct 13, 2020 8:58 am
We had to release a quick update to jv16 PowerTools.
You can download the new version from here: https://jv16powertools.com/downloads/jv16pt_setup.exe
The build 832 released last week contained an unfortunate bug that could cause it in some systems damage Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird products, as well as possibly Google Chrome. The bug was not generic, meaning that the issue did not happen in every system. This is why we did not notice it in our testing. And which is also why we have, to this date, received only two bug reports of this happening with users. It seems, therefore, that the bug is very rare to occur. If the bug does occur, recovering from the issue is rather easy: Simply reinstalling the affected program, such as Mozilla Firefox.
Even so, we decided to release a quick update to jv16 PowerTools to fix this bug.
I will need to find out how this issue got through our quality control systems. I'm very sorry for this bug to have been in the product and I will personally make sure this will not happen again.
Change Log since Build 832
Fixes:
1) Running the System Cleaner can damage Mozilla Firefox or Mozilla Thunderbird products. This only occurs in some systems, but we wanted to release a fix for the issue as fast as possible nevertheless. A simple reinstall of the mentioned products solves the problem, or restoring the System Restore Point jv16 PowerTools automatically created before the cleaning.
2) The Initial Setup can fail with an error message of Access Violation. This is a very rare bug, but now also fixed.
Improvements:
1) Speed improvements to the Initial Setup, Software Uninstaller and Software Updater scans.
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. Digital Signature ( Macecraft Software )
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https://jv16powertools.com/updated-version-5-0-0-939/ jv16 PowerTools Update Released – Version 5.0.0.939
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Adam Poyser
November 12, 2020
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November 12, 2020 Release Notes
An updated version of jv16 PowerTools has been released. The latest version number is 5.0.0.939.
Change Log Since Build 845
Feature Improvements:
Major accuracy improvements to the Initial Setup, System Cleaner, Software Uninstaller and Software Updater scans.
The Use Custom Main Menu option will now be disabled by default on systems with multiple monitors. This feature doesn’t work properly on systems with multiple monitors, this is a quick workaround until we have a proper fix.
The program will now detect if major changes have been made to the system since the Initial Setup was originally run and it will be run again to ensure the most accurate analysis of the system.
Pressing Ctrl + A while a tool’s result filter is active now selects the filter text, instead of selecting all of the result list items.
The Languages menu and the Tools menu are now hidden from the main menu while the tool is scanning. Previously, one could change the language of the program during scanning, which made the scanning stop as the program needs to restart for the language change.
Bug Fixes
Uninstallation of builtin Windows apps can fail with Software Uninstaller.
Software Uninstaller may fail to list builtin Windows apps on non English Windows.
Maximizing the program window will cause any active result list to lose focus.
Uninstalling some software with Software Uninstaller, such as Filezilla, can cause the system to reboot because jv16 PowerTools failed to choose the do not restart computer option automatically from the uninstaller.
The Initial Setup can fail with an Access Violation error message or simply close. If ran again, it normally works at that time. This is a rare issue, happening with less than 1% of users.
Known Issues:
Support for 4K displays is not yet perfect, however, it is already quite usable.
System Cleaner’s browser cleaning module does not support the new Chromium based Microsoft Edge.
System Cleaner and Software Uninstaller Right-Click menus do not yet have the Add To Ignore List feature.
Duplicate Finder will list at most 2000 duplicate files.
How to update:
If you are using any recent jv16 PowerTools (5.0.0.x) – simply download and 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.
Download Trial: https://jv16powertools.com/downloads/jv16pt_setup.exe
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jv16 PowerTools 6.0.0.1099
Main Changes:
- Brand new user interface. We heard your feedback about the user interface, and we listened. The new version now comes with a more powerful user interface, more in line with the classic jv16 PowerTools versions.
- Faster and more accurate. We spent hours on making the new version faster and more accurate. It will now clean better than ever before.
- Quality improvements to all the tools.
jv16 PowerTools Update Released - Version 6.0.0.1099 - Release Notes
https://jv16powertools.com/downloads/jv16pt_setup.exe
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