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jv16 PowerTools Update Released – Version 4.2.0.1968 (December 28, 2018)
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Change Log – What’s New (compared to jv16 PowerTools build 4.2.0.1942)
Bug Fixes

• Fix: The Initial Setup may fail with an error message “Stack Overflow” on some systems.
• Fix: On some systems, especially if a lot of installed software, the Initial Setup can take over 10 minutes to complete or it can freeze entirely.
• Fix: The Clean and SpeedUp My Computer may show an “Access Violation” error message during the scan.
• Fix: The user interface may flicker or elements inside the user interface can jump around while the software is starting or when a tool is starting.
• Fix: The Clean and SpeedUp My Computer may freeze up and never complete on some systems.

Feature Improvements

• Improvement: Greatly improved the overall smoothness of the user interface and its response time.
• Improvement: The Initial Setup will now run up to 50% faster than previously.
• Improvement: The progress bar of the Initial Setup now moves smoother and better shows the actual progress of the process.
• Improvement: Greatly improved the accuracy of the Software Uninstaller’s ability to find the installed software and leftovers from the system.
• Improvement: Added new safety mechanisms to protect the user against false positive detections by the Most Aggressive scan mode of the Clean and SpeedUp My Computer.
• Improvement: Improved the compatility of the software with many popular third party software such as Corel WordPerfect, Microsoft Office and Adobe products.
• Improvement: Since this build contains many important stability and usability related fixes, we are offering a new 60 day trial period. Even if you have tried jv16 PowerTools before, install this version and you will get a new, free 60 day trial period!

 

Right on!!

 

jv16 PowerTools Update Released – Version 4.2.0.2002 (February 14, 2019)
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Change Log – What’s New (compared to jv16 PowerTools build 4.2.0.1968)
Bug Fixes

• Fix: The Clean and SpeedUp My Computer or Initial Setup can fail with an “Access Violation” error message on some systems.
• Fix: The Duplicate File Finder may not find any duplicate files (always shows an empty result list) on some systems.
• Fix: Clicking the Clean and SpeedUp My Computer or Startup Optimizer may not open the tool and just reload the main program window.
• Fix: Enabling or Disabling automatically starting software with the Startup Manager can cause duplicate rows of data to show up on screen.
• Fix: The Duplicate File Finder can fail to complete its scan with “Access Violation” error message.

Feature Improvements

• Improvement: Improved the accuracy of the Software Uninstaller.
• Improvement: The Startup Manager now show more accurate data of the automatically starting software in the system.
• Improvement: The Duplicate File Finder will now automatically sort the found duplicate files by their file size. Before, the sorting order was random and it was not possible to manually sort by size either.

 

thank you

 

jv16 PowerTools v 4.2.0.2004 Released
02.15.2019

Whats New:
Bug Fixes
• Fix: Running the software could show an error message about Integer Overflow. This is purely a cosmetic issue.
• Fix: The Clean and SpeedUp My Computer can display an error message about an Access Violation the moment the scan has completed. While this problem does not cause any harm to the system, it may prevent user from completing the CSMC scan.
• Fix: On some systems and only affecting specific types of shortcut files, the CSMC can display shortcuts from user's Start Menu as broken shortcuts even if they are not broken. This affects for example the Windows 10's Math Input Panel's shortcut file in the Start Menu.
Feature Improvements
• Improvement: The Duplicate File Finder will list the results sorted by size, starting with the biggest files.

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jv16 PowerTools Update Released – Version 4.2.0.2005 (February 18, 2019)
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Change Log – What’s New (compared to jv16 PowerTools build 4.2.0.2004)
Bug Fixes

• Fix: The Duplicate File Finder can list duplicate files of specific size under wrong categories, which can cause the user to incorrectly think all of them are identical with each other while they are not.
• Fix: The “Download Handbook” option doesn’t always work in the installer. This issue is addressed by removing the option from the installer.

Feature Improvements

• Improvement: The Duplicate File Finder will list the results sorted by size, starting with the biggest files.

 

jv16 PowerTools Update Released – Version 4.2.0.2009 (March 15, 2019)
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Change Log – What’s New (compared to jv16 PowerTools build 4.2.0.2005)
Bug Fixes

• Fix: In some systems the Initial Setup and Software Uninstaller may freeze during scanning.
• Fix: The Duplicate File Finder may show “Range check error” when run.
• Fix: Clicking the Start button in File Cleaner or Duplicate File Finder without editing the default tool settings can cause the tool showing “Directory does not exist” error message.
• Fix: The Clean and SpeedUp My Computer does not always honor the Global Ignore List defined in the program settings for all types of registry errors.
• Fix: The Delete button in Clean and SpeedUp My Computer’s result view can incorrectly be captioned with “Uninstall” rather than “Delete”. This is purely a cosmetic issue.
• Fix: The Software Uninstaller does not honor the Global Ignore List.

Feature Improvements

• Improvement: Improved the safety of the temporary file detection in File Cleaner and Clean and SpeedUp My Computer.
• Improvement: Improved the accuracy of the Clean and SpeedUp My Computer.
• Improvement: Major improvements of accuracy and safety in the Software Uninstaller.
• Improvement: The program will no longer ask if you wish to restart your computer to collect more startup time information in the case the program’s trial period has already expired.

 

Danke!!

 

jv16 PowerTools The Long Awaited Release Is Here

jv16 PowerTools Update Released – Version 5.0.0.468 (January 20, 2020)
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Ever since they went to Macecraft their pricing sucks.

 

jv16 PowerTools Update Released – Version 5.0.0.484 (February 3, 2020)
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Spoiler: Changes / Improvements

https://jv16powertools.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=45&t=6094
The original version contained mainly small issues, such as the program not showing "Not Responding" on some systems (this was a cosmetic issue, the program would resume normally if user waited for a moment). There was also a more serious bug of the program freezing or terminating itself automatically. While these issues did not cause any harm to the user, they could make it difficult or impossible for the user to use the program.
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Change Log since Build 468

1) Bug fix: Running the System Cleaner can make the program to either freeze or automatically close. This only happens in approximately 1 system per 45.
2) Bug fix: The Internet Optimizer scan can freeze and stay on the screen forever. Also a rare issue, under 1 system per 45.
3) Bug fix: The Initial Setup or running of the scans may cause the program to display Not Responding in its window caption.
4) Bug fix: Running the application cache cleaning feature of the System Cleaner can clean PowerDVD 19's unused playlists.
5) Bug fix: The font size inside the circular progress view in the scan progress screens can be set incorrectly, usually resulting a too large font size to be used.
6) Bug fix: The Check For Updates screen may not always display a button to download the new version (if any is available).
7) Bug fix: It's not possible to translate the Restart PowerTools and Close PowerTools buttons in the user interface.
8) Bug fix: If you change the program's language but do not click either Restart PowerTools or Close PowerTools buttons, the program will wait forever. (It should automatically click the Restart PowerTools button as the UI says, but never actually does.)
9) Bug fix: Uninstalling certain software can cause the program to get stuck and the uninstallation does not complete.
10) Bug fix: Software Uninstaller does not always warn you if you are about to uninstall software without unininstalling a relating software. In these cases, there should be an extra confirmation message but it is not always shown.
11) Bug fix: Command line parameters do not work. Even if you start the main executable as jv16pt.exe -uninstaller, it will only start the program normally with its main screen, not the Software Uninstaller.
12) Bug fix: The Trans_Missing.txt file may contain items which do, in fact, exist in the current translation file.
13) Bug fix: Uninstalling software with the Software Uninstaller can terminate the Windows explorer.exe process.
14) Bug fix: Software Uninstaller can list Steam games or apps incorrectly under the Leftover Software category.
15) Bug fix: The scans can start with the text "Starting" not correctly entered on the scan progress screen.
16) Bug fix: Uninstalling Filezilla by Software Uninstaller makes the computer to reboot due to the Software Uninstaller failing to check the Reboot Later radio button.
17) Bug fix: The System Cleaner and Software Uninstaller result lists can display large black boxes visual artefacts when scrolling the lists for the first time.
18) Bug fix: Enabling the automatic error fixing mode from Settings causes the System Cleaner to fail with a blank white screen.

Improvements:
1) Improved the overall performance of the program, from starting the first time and also the scan speed.
2) Installing the software over any older version will now automatically uninstall the old version before installation. The previous version could only detect this and show an error message asking user to manually uninstall the old version before installing the new. Now it's automatic.
3) The Clean And Fix Everything button of System Cleaner is now bigger to make it easier to see.
4) Changed the button caption of the System Cleaner report screen from "Close" to "View Results" to make it clearer that clicking this button will show you the scan results.
5) The My Account data (the license owner name and email address) is now also saved to the Windows registry if an uninstallation key for jv16 PowerTools already exists there. This way, if you delete all of PowerTools files, the My Account data is still remembered and stored in the registry. This data is removed if you choose to uninstall the program. Also, the registry is not used unless you choose to add PowerTools to the Windows Control Panel during the installation.
6) The circular scan progress indicator's size is now better adjusted for the size of the window and the screen.
7) Comes with updated translation files, such as updated Dutch.
8) Improved the format of the Trans_Missing.txt to take into account the name of the translation in question.
9) Improved the accuracy of Steam game and app detection of the Software Uninstaller.
10) Greatly improved Software Uninstaller's ability to detect software installation directories and software main executable paths.
11) Reduced the frequency the program creates System Restore Points. For example, if you install the app and it creates a System Restore Point, there is no need to create one if you five minutes later run the System Cleaner or Software Uninstaller.
12) Improved the overall smoothness of the scan progress screen. Less elements jumping around and resizing during the scan.
13) The default action button of each tool is now highlighted and larger.
14) Added a loading spinner also to the Settings screen. Now the Backups, Settings and My Accounts all start with the same way.

 

jv16 PowerTools Update Released – Version 5.0.0.513 (February 28, 2020)
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https://jv16powertools.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=45&t=6107
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.

Change Log since Build 484

1) Bug fix: Choosing to clean the cookie or history data of only some browsers in the Settings window can cause the System Cleaner not to clean any browsers cookie or history data.
2) Bug fix: The "Congratulations! No errors or unneeded data found from your computer" message may get stuck in a loop and displayed over and over again after the System Cleaner.
3) Bug fix: The top one pixel of the message box window's buttons many not be visible if the system is using higher than 100% font size setting in Windows.
4) Bug fix: Fixed a misspelled word "erros" from the English user interface (should be "errors").
5) Bug fix: The check for multiple program instances is not always working, allowing user to run multiple instances of the program at the same time.
6) Bug fix: Internet Optimizer can edit the DNS settings set by installed VPN or internet security software suite. This has now been addressed by detecting these settings and informing user that the Internet Optimizer cannot be run in this case.
7) Bug fix: Running the Software Uninstaller can display an error message relating to converting date. This is a very rare issue, happning in under one system in one hundred.
8) Bug fix: The scan progress screen can display lines starting with an empty space character. This is a cosmetic issue but fixed now nevertheless.
9) Bug fix: The program can display gray color panels behind texts if user is using Windows with the classic theme or high contrast theme enabled.
10) Bug fix: Uninstallation of software with the Software Uninstaller can display the warning message of uninstalled software being similar to another software multiple times.
11) Bug fix: The System Cleaner can list firewall policy registry entries which are recreated by Windows.
12) Bug fix: Adding a drive letter to the Ignore List will not prevent software from that hard drive being listed in the Software Uninstaller.
13) Bug fix: Closing the program too soon after running the Initial Setup can cause the Initial Setup to be run again on the next time the program is started.
14) Bug fix: System Cleaner's checkboxes are incorrectly aligned if user's system is using large fonts in Windows settings.
15) Bug fix: The program can fail to detect installed browsers in some systems and this causes the browser cleaning options of these browsers not to be visible in the Settings > System Cleaner and also not run during System Cleaner.
16) Bug fix: Some texts from the user interface cannot be translated, i.e. they do not exist in the English.txt file.
17) Bug fix: The color of the background panels in System Cleaner's report screen can be incorrect.
18) Bug fix: The program does not correctly Windows language if it was changed by the user. For example, if you installed English Windows but then downloaded a Windows language pack to change its language to Polish, jv16 PowerTools will not automatically detect and load the Polish translation.
19) Bug fix: The program does not close itself if it is still running when user starts the uninstallation of jv16 PowerTools.
20) Bug fix: Clicking to Abort a scan may cause it to get stuck to a screen with text "Starting ..."
21) Bug fix: Cleaning browser history data could cause browser bookmarks also be removed or altered in some rare cases.

Improvements:
1) System Cleaner now lists all the browser history and cookie data per domain, allowing you to choose what data to exactly clear.
2) The trial reminder or license information text at the bottom right corner of the main window is no longer clickable during the scan progress screen to avoid accidental clicks.
3) Improved the smoothness of scrolling the System Cleaner and Software Uninstaller result lists.
4) Improved the scan progress screen's user interface smoothness. It should now show and update with far less element sizes being changed for no reason.
5) The Settings window's Domain Whitelist and Global Ignore List features now automatically remove unneeded rows of data. For example, if you would enter "jv16 PowerTools" and "jv16" to the Global Ignore List, the row "jv16 PowerTools" would be automatically removed as it is already included in the row "jv16".
6) Some users have been confused by the Invalid Metadata errors found by the System Cleaner, thinking that such error means that the file mentioned would be deleted by the System Cleaner. This is not the case. For example, if the System Cleaner reports that Explorer.exe has invalid metadata, it does not mean the file would be deleted. Instead, the System Cleaner would only fix its invalid metadata from the file system record.
7) Improved VPN and firewall and internet security software detection.
8) Internet Optimizer now refuses to start if the system is using local network based DNS to prevent any compatibility issues, for example with locally run network solution, VPNs, internet security software or locally run servers.
9) If you enter full URLs to the Domain Whitelist in the Settings window, the program will now know how to process them and only add the domain names.
10) Added an option to delete unused translations and clear jv16 PowerTools cache files (Tools > Maintenance menu).
11) Added an information text to My Account's user interface to inform the user that an internet connection is required. This is not shown if a connection has already been detected.
12) Attempting to activate a license in My Account without newsletter subscription setting will now automatically scroll the setting into view.
13) System Cleaner will now show more information messages relating to the found items. These were designed to address some of the common misconceptions of the results.

 

jv16 PowerTools Update Released – Version 5.0.0.527 (March 5, 2020)
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Spoiler: Changes / Improvements

https://jv16powertools.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=45&t=6111
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.

Change Log since Build 513

1) Bug fix: The previous version fixed the problem about Firefox bookmarks being modified or removed during System Cleaner. The original bug was rare, only occurring in some systems. The last version fixed it for many users but not perfectly. This build now fixes it for good.
2) Bug fix: The program may fail to start on some systems. If this happens, you will only see the initial splash screen and nothing else ever shows up.
3) Bug fix: The Initial Setup can take a very long time to run on some systems.
4) Bug fix: Tools menu > Maintenance > Flush Cache does not trigger the Initial Setup to run again, even if it says it would.
5) Bug fix: If you don't have a browser installed, for example Firefox, the System Cleaner will still search for its cookies and history data. This makes the scan a few seconds slower than what it should be.
6) Bug fix: System Cleaner can incorrectly say no items found even if some were found.
7) Bug fix: On small screens the splash screen's bottom texts can overlap the version number text.
8) Bug fix: System Cleaner can ask for permission to close web browsers even if you have selected not to run any browser related cleaning modules.
9) Bug fix: System Cleaner can search for temporary files even if the temporary file scan module has been disabled from Settings.
10) Bug fix: The Ignore List may not work in cases of you want to ignore certain types of registry data, and the System Cleaner will therefore continue to list this data.
11) Bug fix: Starting the System Cleaner can show aggressiveness confirmation text in English, even if you are using the program in another language.
12) Bug fix: The program can display Stringlist Out Of Bounds error when starting. This is a very rare issue, happening only in some systems.
13) Bug fix: Ignoring software with the Software Uninstaller via the Right Click menu does not remove it from the list, it is only not shown the next time even though System Cleaner removes the item from list immediately after item is ignored.
14) Bug fix: Internet Optimizer can get stuck in the Starting ... screen.

Improvements:
1) Improved the detection and the listing of browser cache data.
2) System Cleaner's information message boxes are now shown only if System Cleaner is open and active.
3) Made the user interface for the System Cleaner settings clearer.
4) Installing a new version of PowerTools over the old one causes in some cases of important (but not critical) cache files never to be created, as the Initial Setup has already ran when the old version was installed. Now, the program will detect if such cache files are missing and perform an Initial Setup again if needed.
5) Increased the waiting thresholds of information messages in the application to avoid too many tips or other non essential message boxes to be displayed in too rapid progression.
6) All the three main tool text captions are now visible. Before, only the default tool or the currently selected tool caption text was visible, which some users found difficult to use.
7) The program will now attempt to detect a running setup of jv16 PowerTools and automatically close itself. This way you are not prompted with an error message of a file in use if you try to update while the program is still running.
8) My Account's Apply button is now only visible if needed. 9) Aborting a scan can cause the user interface to get not responsive. Therefore, the Aborting scans feature is currently not available until we improve and fix it.

 

jv16 PowerTools Update Released – Version 5.0.0.608 (May 21, 2020)
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Spoiler: Changes v5.0.0.608

Change Log Since Build 527
Bug Fixes

1. System Cleaner may not find any browser history or cookie data.
2. Moving between different tools could cause the app to get stuck on some tool page, or to get stuck showing “Starting …” text.
3. The application may fail to start on some systems. It will display the first screen but never proceeds from there.
4. The program may display ‘Not Responding’ text when starting, especially during the Initial Setup.
5. Cleaning unneeded data or fixing errors in System Cleaner sometimes fail, causing the same items to be found on the next System Cleaner scan forcing user to run the tool multiple times for a clean result.
6. In some cases the main window can get stuck in a loop where it always starts as maximized window, even if you did not maximize it previously.
7. Starting the program for the first time may not display the information message about the program running Initial Setup if user has certain anti-virus products installed.
8. Disabling one or more registry scan modules from the Settings causes no registry scan modules to be ran by System Cleaner.
9. Clicking the result list columns sorts the list, but only the result list in System Cleaner shows the sorting direction symbol in the column.
10. If the program starts in a Non-English system for the first time, it can display parts of the Initial Setup screen in English and parts in the localized language.
11. The x days of trial remaining text at the bottom right corner can contain invalid character (especially if you are using Windows 7)
12. The Check For Updates screen can contain incorrectly sized and positioned items when it starts.
13. If user has changed certain settings, the Software Uninstaller can incorrectly list all installed Windows components as left-over traces.
14. System Cleaner can tell you about its browser cleaning feature at the results screen, even if you did not run the browser cleaner module, or no browser data was found.
15. When using the program in other language than English, the status text of the splash screen can show an incorrect text.
16. Clicking the Clean And Fix button of System Cleaner can make the program to freeze for a few seconds, or it may ignore the click entirely.
17. Software Uninstaller does not detect certain types of registry keys to be relating to installed software. For example, hkey_classes_root\xnview.bmp key is not detected as a key relating to app Xnview while it clearly is.
18. In rare cases, the jv16 PowerTools application could remain running in the background after being closed. This would cause no harm but it’s a bug nevertheless and now fixed.
19. Maximizing the program window can make it go over the Windows task bar, which is probably undesired.
20. Some parts of the user interface are not translated (if you use the program in other language than English).
21. If you start the Software Uninstaller after running a cleaning with System Cleaner, the scan progress screen will contain a wrong text about issues being found.
22. The Automatically fix found items option does not always work in the System Cleaner.
23. Backups tool may not list any backups if the system uses non US date format settings. This bug is purely cosmetic, the backups are created normally but only not listed in the user interface. No data is lost.
24. Some texts are missing a space after a period.
25. If you first run the System Cleaner and then Software Uninstaller, the second tool may incorrectly call the found items as issues or errors on the scan progress screen.

Feature Improvements:

1. New Tool: Find All is a new tool for searching registry and file system data.
2. New Feature: The result list of System Cleaner and Software Uninstaller allows filtering of results based. For example, you can choose to only display certain type of errors on screen.
3. New Feature: System Cleaner now shows a detailed description of why each item was detected as an error or unneeded data.
4. New Feature: Software Uninstaller will now detect and list first any newly installed software.
5. New Feature: A new System Cleaner scan module to detect and fix common system errors logged by the Events Log in Windows.
6. New Feature: The software can now be used to delete locked and write protected files.
7. New Feature: The Tools menu now contains a feature to add the ability Take Ownership to the Right Click menu of Windows. Using this allows you to easily change the owner of a file or folder to yourself in Windows.
8. New Setting: You can now disable the backup creation of the program. You might want to do this if you are using a third party software for backups and in this case, disabling jv16 PowerTools’ own backups will make it work faster.
9. New Setting: You can disable the automatic closing of jv16 PowerTools message boxes.
10. Major improvements in System Cleaner’s accuracy of detecting errors and also its ability to clean and fix them.
11. Major improvements to the Software Uninstaller’s ability to uninstall software, both in speed and in accuracy.
12. Major user interface improvements to make everything work smoother and ensure the program is easy to use.
13. Major visual updates to the user interface is making it more responsive even when the program is working hard, for example during the Initial Setup. This does come at a price of the program being a bit slower, but it’s still better than risking Windows calling the app as Not Responding.
14. The user interface now shows tool tip texts, especially in the home screen to explain in more detail what each feature does.
15. Added a progress bar to the program’s splash screen, and made the entire program’s startup process smoother.
16. Scan progress is now also visible in the Windows task bar (only in Windows 10).
17. The main program window now uses a custom system menu to optimize the use of screen real estate (can be disabled from the Settings).
18. Added a Right Click menu options to select and unselect all the scan modules in Settings > System Cleaner.
19. Added a Right Click menu option to open the Settings of the specific tool directly from the home screen. For example, Right Click the System Cleaner icon, choose Settings and it will open the System Cleaner’s settings for you.
20. The text sizes in the home screen are now better scaled to fit different screen sizes and resolution settings.
21. Scan progress screen of System Cleaner and Software Uninstaller now display the currently analyzed registry key or directory.
22. The program will now attempt to automatically resize its main window size if it detects the window size being too big for the current screen size.
23. It is no longer possible to minimize the columns of result lists to so small, the checkboxes get partially invisible.
24. The Backups tool now informs you if there are no backups yet created. Before, it would only show a blank screen, which could have been confusing.
25. Internet Optimizer now shows more accurate status data while it is working.
26. Added an option to Settings to allow user to increase the font size used in the main program window.
27. The program will display an English language button to change the language to English in the case the program is first started and it automatically uses a non English language (for example, if you install the program to Spanish version of Windows, it will automatically start in Spanish.)
28. Added option to select all and select none in the Right Click menu of the System Cleaner.
29. System Cleaner no longer displays the Scan Report in the case of custom scan, that is, not all scan modules being ran.
30. The empty area between home screen main tool icons and the icon text caption is now also clickable and starts the tool.
31. The default view of the tools should open without the horizontal scroll bar visible. That is, the column sizes are automatically adjusted in a way they fit the window size without the need of a scroll bar.
32. Software Uninstaller will now display all file system and registry paths correctly capitalized.
33. Double clicking an item in Software Uninstaller will now open its installation path in File Explorer, or its registry path if no installation path found.
34. Software Uninstaller will now also list builtin Windows programs like Notepad and Calculator by default. Previously, this was disabled by default and if you don’t wish these to be listed you can disable this from the Settings.
35. Reduced the program’s overall memory (RAM) usage in systems with less available memory. The program uses memory to improve its speed, this is what memory is designed for. But, this may not always be a good idea in systems with less memory, which is why this has now been fine-tuned.
36. Any time a file name, file path or a registry path data is shown on screen, it is now shown with consistent capitalization.
37. Improved the order in which software are listed by the Software Uninstaller.
38. Right Clicking certain user interface elements allows you now to see a menu with an option to remove the item from the user interface. For example, the tip text under the Find All feature from the main window or the status text in the scan progress screen.
39. Clicking the Apply button in the Settings screen now works faster.
40. Added an option to disable the automatic closing of message boxes. Normally, any message box of jv16 PowerTools is automatically closed after 30 seconds. Now you can disable this from the settings.
41. Pressing Ctrl + C keys from your keyboard will now copy the contents of the currently open jv16 PowerTools message box popup window to the clipboard. Before, you had to Right Click the message box and choose Copy to Clipboard from the Right Click menu.
42. The name of the software currently being uninstalled is now shown in proper case. Before, it was always shown with lower case.
43. If you try to run the System Cleaner with browser running, it will ask for permission to close the browser. However, if you click Cancel on this query, this will now abort the System Cleaner scan. Previously it would continue the scan without closing the browser.
44. You can now drag and drop files to the main window, and these will be listed by the program. This allows you to, for example, use the Force Delete to delete a locked file.
45. And lastly: This version gives you a new 14 day trial even in the of case your original 14 days trial has already expired. We are doing this because we want everyone to try this major new update, especially if you tried the original version and didn’t like it.

 

jv16 PowerTools Update Released – Version 5.0.0.668 (July 2, 2020)
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Spoiler: Changes v5.0.0.668

Change Log Since Build 608
Bug Fixes

1. The program could sometimes get stuck to a 90% or 99% scan progress for extended period of time.
2. Maximizing the program window can cause it to get too big, covering the Windows task bar.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. Software Uninstaller can in some systems list some installed software twice, especially the Microsoft Edge browser.
6. Moving the mouse cursor around the main window can cause the tool caption texts to randomly move by one pixel left or right.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. 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:

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. New Feature: Popup window to show detailed information about the found items of System Cleaner, Software Uninstaller and Find All result list.
4. Massive improvements to the speed of the Initial Setup. Before, it took on average 97 seconds. Now, it takes on average only 48 seconds.
5. Massive improvements to the speed of the Software Uninstaller. With previous build, the average scan time was 60 seconds, now it’s 35 seconds.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. All the buttons within the program now look the same in all versions of Windows.
9. The size of each button is now better adjusted based on the length of button text.
10. Tools > Maintenance > Flush jv16 PowerTools Cache feature now also clears all the jv16 PowerTools debug logs.
11. 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.
12. The software now uses less memory (RAM) to work.
13. Added an option to hide the result filtering feature to Settings.
14. Pressing the Esc key from keyboard will now close any open filter panel, and any open result list popup info panel.
15. The System Cleaner’s scan report is now disabled (no longer shown), until we complete its redesign.
16. Software Uninstaller’s Show All Data window that shows all of the found data relating to an installed software no longer automatically closes.
17. 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.
18. Improved the smoothness of Software Uninstaller’s progress reporting.
19. 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.
20. Reduced the time it takes for the initial screen of the program to show up. Before, it could be up to five seconds.
21. 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”.
22. 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.

 

jv16 PowerTools HotFix Released – Version 5.0.0.675 (July 3, 2020)
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jv16 PowerTools Released – Version 5.0.0.697 (July 16, 2020)
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Change Log Since Build 675
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1. Uninstalling software can cause the Windows user interface (explorer.exe) to be terminated. This is by design. However, after the uninstallation, it should be restarted again. Bug mainly affects Windows 8.
2. If you use the Results Search feature within Find All, the blue category bars with the number of found items are not updated to reflect what is currently on screen. Instead, the number of items in each category remains the same as if no Results Search is not used at all. This only affects the number of results reported, the actual searching of results is working correctly.
3. You cannot use Ctrl + A to select all the text in the Software Uninstaller > Uninstall Software screen.
4. In some systems, the automatic detection of Whitelisted Domains to be listed in Settings > System Cleaner does not work, and no domains are listed.
5. Software Uninstaller can incorrectly list some software twice, with and without a version number in the program’s name.
6. Find All’s group captions are not correctly capitalized. For example, file paths can be incorrectly starting with a non capital drive letter.
7. The default sort of Software Uninstaller is incorrect.
8. System Cleaner can incorrectly say some Windows application shortcuts, such as the Snipping Tool, are broken and not working, even if they are working. This bug is rare, we were not able to even reproduce it but nevertheless, it is now fixed.
9. Restoring a backup with the Backup tool can cause Windows RegEdit.exe error message to show up.
10. The bottom status bar texts in the main window are not always correctly positioned (not centered).
11. Some parts of the user interface cannot be translated because the texts are missing from the translation file (English.lng)
12. Applying filters in System Cleaner, Software Uninstaller or Find All result screens does not hide the filter panel while the screen updates.
13. System Cleaner’s progress screen can display a number of errors founds to be larger than actually listed in the result screen. This is a cosmetic bug, caused by the scan progress screen counting all found items, and the final result listing containing only items without any duplicate data and without results matching the user defined ignore lists.
14. Find All’s result list processing will become very slow with a lot of data (10000+ rows) and the counts, such as the number of items on screen, can be inaccurate.
15. If you use the Settings window to hide Find All from the home screen, and then re-enable it again, the Find All box is incorrectly positioned in the home screen.
16. Uninstalling software with the Software Uninstaller can get stuck to long periods of time (30 minutes+) when uninstalling certain software. This only happens in some cases, and with some software.
17. System Cleaner’s result screen always contains a long English text, even if you are using the program in another language.
18. The scan progress screen can display a cosmetic mistake by showing hkey_local_machine\somekey\ – (full key)\. The trailing \ character is incorrect here.
19. Even if you list the installation directory of software in the Settings > Ignore List, under some rare cases, the Software Uninstaller can still list the software. This does not occur if you also list the software’s name in the Ignore List.

Feature Improvements:

1. The program now starts a lot faster. On average, the previous build took 11 seconds to fully start, this version takes on average only 4 seconds.
2. Greatly improved the speed of uninstalling software with the Software Uninstaller.
3. Greatly improved the performance of Results Search and the result list filtering features when dealing with lists with a lot of data.
4. Improved the accuracy of the Software Uninstaller. It again finds more data to remove when you use it to uninstall software.
5. Improved Software Uninstaller’s ability to delete locked and otherwise write protected data.
6. Improved the progress reporting of uninstalling software.
7. Improved System Cleaner’s ability to find more leftovers from old software.
8. Improved System Cleaner’s detection of which registry data is relating to which installed software or left-over software. This will make the analysis of the results list a lot easier when you can see what is relating to which software.Improved the speed of System Cleaner scan.
9. It’s not meaningful to display the number of issues found during the System Cleaner scan because the number is not final before the final post processing phase, which takes two seconds just before the scan completes. The previous versions showed the number of possibly found issues, but this is not accurate and could lead to confusion with users. Therefore, this is no longer shown.
10. Improved the user interface after you click the Uninstall button in the Software Uninstaller. Before, you saw a progress animation. Now you see an actual progress bar.
11. Starting to type in the home screen now automatically moves to focus to Find All, allowing you to start a Find All search without first having to click its search box to become active.
12. Ctrl + A in the home screen will now select everything in the Find All’s search box.
13. The main program window now starts with less visual flickering and elements moving around immediatly after the window becomes visible.
14. The program will now display a message on its main window if a new version is available for download. Before, user would have to use the Help > Check For Updates to see this information.
15. Improved the accuracy of the progress reporting, especially when cleaning the system with System Cleaner and uninstalling software with Software Uninstaller.
16. The installation file of the program is now better in detecting and closing any instance of jv16 PowerTools, to ensure a smoother update process.

Known Issues:

1. The program does not scale properly when using 4K screen or other large resolutions. This is mostly a cosmetic issue, the program works just fine, but many user interface elements are incorrectly sized.
2. The System Cleaner and Software Uninstaller Right-Click menus do not yet have the Add To Ignore List feature.

 

jv16 PowerTools Released – Version 5.0.0.730 (July 30, 2020)
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Change Log Since Build 697
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1. If certain files are deleted in jv16 PowerTools installation folder, the program can enter a state where it runs the Initial Setup every time the program is started.
2. The program shipped without the list of available DNS servers used by the Internet Optimizer, causing the Internet Optimizer to not being able to run.
3. Software Uninstaller can incorrectly add a trailing slash to filenames, for example path c:\windows\notepad.exe can become c:\windows\notepad.exe\. While this is mostly a cosmetic issue, it can also affect the uninstallation software as if the program attempts to uninstall software and delete such path, it may fail because of the incorrectly placed trailing slash character.
4. Using Find All with a search term that produces zero results causes the small under window progress bar remain visible in the main window after the search has ended.
5. Find All’s vertical position on the home screen can change for no reason.
6. Opening the Settings can take a very long time in some systems.
7. Fixed many cases of bad English from the program’s user interface. Mostly grammar mistakes.

Feature Improvements:

1. Major speed improvements in the entire program. In our testing systems, the Initial Setup is now on average 18% faster, System Cleaner 20% faster and Software Uninstaller up to 50% faster.
2. Major improvements to Software Uninstaller’s ability to find left-over traces of software.
3. Major improvements to the System Cleaner. In our testing systems, it now finds on average 20% more errors.
4. Software Uninstaller can now better detect the installation date of software.
5. Improved the way the Find All will catch keystrokes even if it’s not in focus when user starts to type in the home screen.

 

jv16 PowerTools Released – Version 5.0.0.786 (September 10, 2020)
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jv16 PowerTools Released – Version 5.0.0.798 (September 24, 2020)
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jv16 PowerTools Released – Version 5.0.0.832 (October 8, 2020)
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v16 PowerTools Released – Version 5.0.0.845 (October 13, 2020)

 

jv16 PowerTools Released – Version 5.0.0.939 (November 12, 2020)
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jv16 PowerTools Released – Version 6.0.0.1099 (March 9, 2021)
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Spoiler: Changes v6.0.0.1099

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A Major New Version of jv16 PowerTools has been released. The latest version number is 6.0.0.1099.

Change Log Since Build 939
Since the last official version (build 939), our testing team has done 3040 test installations, ran a total of 11224 testing cycles and spent in total of 2452 hours in testing. Not work hours, but actual, hands-on time clocked while actually testing the product.

Main Changes:

1. 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.
2. Faster and more accurate. We spent hours on making the new version faster and more accurate. It will now clean better than ever before.
3. Quality improvements to all the tools.

There are also many interesting performance related numbers from our quality control system. The previous official build took on average 93 seconds to complete the Initial Setup. The new version does this, on average, in just 54 seconds. The previous official build took on average 53 seconds to do a System Cleaner scan, now it takes only 46 seconds. And perhaps even more impressive is that the Software Uninstaller previously took 52 seconds, and now only 36 seconds. Also, it’s worth noting that these numbers are averages across hundreds of test installations, not cherry picked numbers from one or two systems.

While the new user interface might seem heavier, the actual memory (RAM) usage of the program is also down from an average of 224 MB with the previous official build, to only 118 MB.

While speed and overall performance are important indicators, even more important is the tool’s ability to clean your computer. In these key metrics, the new version is also better than ever before. For example, the new version finds on average 5.2% more files and registry data relating to installed software. There is also a brand new, dedicated scan module in System Cleaner to detect left over software files and registry keys.