jv16 PowerTools Changelog

What's new in jv16 PowerTools 8.0.0.1556

Mar 30, 2023

Improvements:
New tool: System Examiner.
New tool: Screenshot.
New tool: Update Fixer.
Major improvements to System Fixer.
Major improvements to Software Uninstaller.
Major user interface improvements.
System Fixer's and System Cleaner's category view now also shows the total number of items.
Improved the way the program UI scales to different screen resolutions.
Fixes:
The number of found items could be incorrect. This was purely a cosmetic issue, caused by some parts of the UI counting all found items incorrectly.
Selecting and unselecting items from the result list in System Fixer and System Cleaner could cause the category selector (left list) and the main result list (right list) to get confused what items should be selected and what unselected.
The progress screen could have modules that say "starting" until the end of the scan. This was a cosmetic problem, the modules were ran, but their status was not correctly shown in the user interface.
Software Uninstaller doesn't automatically sort the list of found software in a smart way.
The main action button of Task Manager could contain the wrong text caption. It should update based on which tab of the tool is open, but it always didn't.
In systems with multiple screens, the screen selection setting was not properly saved in the Settings > General Settings
Known issues:
The Russian translation does not work. Trying to use it may cause error message "Slava Ukraini" to be displayed.
Some parts of the user interface might not display correctly in all window sizes and screen resolutions.
Some translations are still missing from this release (e.g. Chinese) and many need updates. These will be included to the next version.

New in jv16 PowerTools 7.7.0.1532 (Nov 17, 2022)

New in jv16 PowerTools 7.7.0.1524 (Oct 27, 2022)

New in jv16 PowerTools 7.6.0.1498 (Sep 15, 2022)

Improvements:
New tool: Startup Timer. Startup Timer is a new standalone tool which allows you to measure exactly how long it takes for Windows to start and also to see which apps are slowing the system startup the most.
Improved the performance of the System Fixer and System Cleaner.
Initial Setup now runs faster.
Closing the program now happens faster.
Updated many translations, including Dutch, Finnish and Swedish.
Improved the progress reporting of Software Uninstaller.
Improved the accuracy of Software Uninstaller.
The System Fixer's dummy folder detection module now detects more left-over folder types.
The tools now open and close smoother with less UI elements moving around.
Fixes:
The category selector in System Fixer and System Cleaner does not always work properly.
The result listing of System Fixer and System Cleaner can start to flicker if items are unchecked.
In some rare cases, the app could display 'SharedButtons' as the caption of each button. This could happen if updating jv16 PowerTools to a new version failed to replace some files.
The loading graphic could sometimes show up in a location other than the center of the app window.
Using the categories menu in System Fixer and System Cleaner to hide items from the result list could sometimes fail, because all of the manually unchecked categories were automatically re-checked by the app.
Using the Analyze button in Software Uninstaller could sometimes automatically select only some of the unused apps instead all of them.
Known issues:
The Russian translation does not work. Trying to use it may cause error message "Slava Ukraini" to be displayed.
When in Dark Mode, moving the mouse cursor over checkboxes or radio buttons can cause these components to either flash white or remain to be displayed with a white background. Moving the mouse cursor over the same components fixes the issue. This is a cosmetic issue we are working on trying to fix. This bug can also occur in earlier versions of jv16 PowerTools.
Running System Fixer, System Cleaner or Software Uninstaller scan can in some rare cases result in a blank screen instead of the scan progress screen. This is a rare cosmetic issue, the actual scan is running but the scan progress screen fails to show.

New in jv16 PowerTools 7.5.1.1480 (Aug 18, 2022)

Improvements:
Greatly reduced the time the program spends on showing the spinning loading animation when moving between tools.
In the case you update an older version to a new version and your license is not automatically applied, you can now open My Account and click Apply, without the need to reinstall the program or to use the My Account's Reset feature first.
Moving between the different tools is now much faster and smoother, with less UI elements updating or moving around.
Many new System Fixer scanner modules enabled. The scan now takes a bit longer, on average two minutes, but it can now find much more different types of system errors.
Fixes:
The program could display 'your trial period has ended' during the Initial Setup phase of the program, which could be inconvenient.
System Fixer fails to find certain types of errors, such as broken shortcuts.
In some systems, System Fixer's and System Cleaner's result list could flicker every few seconds.
The 'working, please wait' text can move while a tool such as System Fixer or System Cleaner is scanning.
In some cases, when the Scan Progress screen would show up, it could display incorrect texts like 'lblCaption' or 'edtStatus' for a brief moment before the actual content was displayed.
In Windows 11, jv16 PowerTools would automatically create the Desktop Right Click menu option for jv16 PowerTools, but there was no way to remove it since the option to remove it in Settings > System was not visible if using Windows 11.
Some parts of the Settings screen could be invisible in the program was used in a very small resolution screen.
Installing the program over an older version without first uninstalling the old version, could in some cases lead to 'installation is corrupted, please reinstall jv16 PowerTools' error message to be displayed.
Uninstalling software with the Software Uninstaller could cause the waiting graphic to move around in the UI while it loads.
Main Menu > Help > Support or Main Menu > Help > Discussion Forum did not work.
My Account could display 'License expires: (unknown' if you owned a 'for life' license. This was entirely a cosmetic issue and all perpetual licenses were honored. This issue is now fixed and My Account should now correctly display 'License expires: never' for such licenses.
Main Menu > Tools > Maintenance > Flush caches and rerun Initial Setup did not always work. It could just restart the program without performing the Initial Setup as requested.
The default ignore list of Duplicate File Finder and Big File Finder could contain registry keys. While having registry keys in the ignore list didn't cause any problems, having registry keys in the ignore list of file searches didn't really make much sense either, hence this is now fixed.
It was possible to resize the category listing of System Fixer so small, the listing was no longer visible.
During a scan, such as System Fixer or System Cleaner scan, the progress indicator could get stuck to 1%. This was a cosmetic issue and did not mean the actual scan was stuck.
It was possible that the Dashboard's hard drive content analysis did not show the detailed data, this could especially happen if user had used Tools > Maintenance > Flush Cache feature.

New in jv16 PowerTools 7.5.0.1463 (Jul 21, 2022)

Improvements:
New tool: System Fixer. System Fixer looks for Windows and system related errors, lists them for you to review and can automatically fix them for you.
New tool: Quick Finder. Quick Finder sits directly in the jv16 PowerTools navigation panel and in the Widget and allows you to quickly find and open files. For example, did you just download "invoice.pdf"? Just type in 'invoice.pdf' or 'invoice' to Quick Finder and hit Enter, and the app instantly opens it for you. Or just write the search word and wait a second, and jv16 PowerTools opens the folder containing the file for you. If you don't like to use Windows Cortana to find files, this is the feature you have been looking for.
New feature: Settings Export/Import. If you want to move jv16 PowerTools to another computer, or uninstall it in order to install a new version, you can now use the Settings Export to create a backup of your app settings.
New feature: You can now easily add 'Open with Command Prompt', 'Open with Notepad' and 'Take Ownership' options to the Right Click menus of Windows from the new jv16 PowerTools Settings > System tab.
New feature: jv16 PowerTools Desktop Menu. Right Click your Windows Desktop and you will now have jv16 PowerTools menu there, with shortcuts to the most common Windows tools such as Task Manager and RegEdit. And, of course, to start jv16 PowerTools. Only available for Windows 7 to Windows 10.
New feature: Software Uninstaller now contains an Analyze button which will detect which of your installed software and games you haven't been using for a long time. This can get in handy when deciding which apps you should uninstall.
New feature: The Widget now supports activity tracking to show how long you have been using your computer and it can also suggest when you should take a break.
New feature: The Widget now shows you the battery status and can notify you to stop charging the battery when it reaches 80% to improve the longevity of the battery by never fully charging it.
New feature: Right Clicking the main app navigation menu now brings up a rich menu to choose which tools should be visible on the menu as well as other handy features.
New feature: Software Uninstaller has a Show Data button that shows all the installation data of the selected apps, such as the files and registry data they have created.
Tools now open smoother with less user interface elements changing position during the transition between different screens within the app.
Added an option to Settings to show and hide the social media and contact icons from the navigation menu. Previously, it was only possible to hide these icons via the Right Click menu.
Added an option to use Courier type font for the data finding and searching related input text fields.
Changing the tab in Settings now also automatically scrolls the horizontal tabs scroll bar.
System Cleaner now displays a better worded notification before it automatically restarts your computer, and it allows you to cancel the restart by clicking the Cancel button.
An expired trial version of the program now allows basic usage, such as System Cleaner scanning, but not cleaning. Previously, an expired trial version would only show the My Account page.
Applying a license in My Account now shows the proper 'please wait' message while the license data is being checked.
Improved the speed of cleaning data in System Cleaner.
Improved the way the program and the Widget handle cases of the system screen resolution changes.
All the boxes within the Settings screen are now scrollable with the mouse scroll wheel without the need to click the box first.
Fixes:
Cleaning data with the System Cleaner or applying settings of Internet Optimizer could cause the app to quickly display an 'All is done' message box, and after that display a progress screen that could be visible for a long time. This was very confusing as the user would not know whether the operation was still ongoing, already completed or failed.
The tool names could use incorrect capitalization in some translated versions. For example, 'Support' button could say 'support'.
The list of running apps in Dashboard or Widget could contain app names with incorrect capitalization, such as 'FACEBOOK' instead of 'Facebook'.
The Widget's summary bar is blank when using the normal mode (i.e. not Dark Mode), because it is using a white font on a white background.
Starting the Internet Optimizer would show the quick progress animation before the privacy confirmation question has been answered by the user, which could have caused the user to incorrectly assume the operation already started before the privacy confirmation was given.
The Statistics area in Dashboard could incorrectly use too small fonts.
The list of translations was not fully visible in the Settings in some screen resolutions.
The 'Please wait ...' panel could change position while a tool page was opening which could look unpleasant.
Some of the navigation panel buttons could be partially cut off due to insufficient horizontal space on some screen resolutions when using a non English user interface.
Fixed typos and grammatical errors from the English and Finnish user interface texts.
It was not possible to hide the Task Manager tool from the navigation menu. Unchecking it from Settings > General > Tools would hide it for some time but it would always come back.
Some parts of File Splitter tool's user interface could not be translated because the texts were missing from English.txt
The Widget could start in English even if jv16 PowerTools itself was used in non English user interface mode.
Sometimes a tool could open with only the top part of the UI visible. Resizing the program window would fix this cosmetic issue, but now the bug causing this is also fixed.
Running the System Cleaner scan could either crash the app (potentially closing it without any error message) or freeze it. This was a rare issue that required very specific conditions to occur before it was triggered. Nevertheless, it's now fixed.
System Cleaner could report zero issues found in a case of a very slow computer and/or a system with a lot of errors or unneeded data. This was because if the main scan experienced a timeout, the processing data to the screen would also timeout, hence not displaying any results found before the scan timeout occurred.

New in jv16 PowerTools 7.4.0.1418 (May 12, 2022)

New in jv16 PowerTools 7.3.1.1392 (Mar 31, 2022)

Improvements:
Improved the accuracy of System Cleaner's 'Registry error relating to' feature. Previously it could list data such as 'Registry error relating to Microsoft', which doesn't really provide you any value.
Reduced the system resources usage of the jv16 PowerTools Widget.
Improved the accuracy of detecting the names and icons of running apps in the Dashboard and the Widget.
Minor improvements to the overall accuracy of System Cleaner and Software Uninstaller.
The program now opens up faster. In most systems, the difference is negligible but in systems in which the starting time has been slow, it is now up to 25% faster.
Software Uninstaller scan now works faster, on average it now takes 30 seconds, previously with the last version it took 42 seconds.
Some of the confirmation message boxes now show the expected answer by highlighting the default option.
Comes with many updated translations, including Dutch, Finnish and Swedish.
Fixes:
The program could display 'The ordinal 4369 could not be located in the dynamic link library' error message. This was a rare bug, only affecting specific systems. So far, we received seven reports of this issue. However, in the affected systems, this bug made it impossible to use the app.
The program could display an 'access violation' error message when performing the System Cleaner scan.
System Cleaner could get stuck on displaying the 'updating the results list ...' at the status bar. This was a cosmetic issue, however. This message being visible did not prevent you from using the app in any ways.
If you unselected all but one category from the System Cleaner results, the user interface could enter a loop where the results list got emptied, then updated correctly, emptied again, and so on.
System Cleaner scan's starting screen could remain on screen for too long, incorrectly letting the user to think the scan might not be starting correctly. This was entirely a cosmetic issue.
Installation of jv16 PowerTools didn't always create a System Restore Point.
Scrolling the navigation panel could fail and possibly show an 'out of range' error message.
The final screen of Software Uninstaller could have the checkboxes in wrong locations, especially if the tool is used more than one time per session.
Clicking the Close button of System Cleaner could cause the program to display 'access violation' error message.
The program could generate an empty file called 'jv16 PowerTools Version Checker' to its installation directory.
11) Starting System Cleaner with any browsers running will cause the program to show a confirmation whether browser can be closed to allow browser data cleaning. However, if you chose 'cancel' from this confirmation box, it could cause the program to hang for a few seconds, incorrectly display the scan progress screen and only then return to the dashboard.
12) Dashboard's RAM section displayed the amount of RAM available to Windows. This could be a smaller number than the actual amount of installed RAM, which caused some confusion. This is now fixed and the dashboard will now display the total amount of installed RAM.
13) The text of the circular progress element in the progress screen, such as when scanning the system, could sometimes be drawn to the left side of the screen.
14) Sometimes the program failed to correctly fetch the icon of a running application, causing the CPU or RAM listing areas of the Dashboard to show either a missing or incorrect icon.
15) Scrolling the Dashboard's list up and down immediately after the program has started, could cause the scrolling not to be smooth and the CPU usage high for a few seconds.

New in jv16 PowerTools 7.3.0.1369 (Feb 24, 2022)

Improvements:
New tool: File Wiper allows you to delete files in a way the files cannot be recovered with data recovery products.
New tool: File Deleter allows you to delete locked and otherwise write-protected files.
New tool: Web Blocker allows you to block ads and websites of specific types, such as social media websites.
New feature: The program now supports password protection. You can now define a password in Settings and if you do so, the program will require a password input before it can be used.
The temporary file cleaning feature of the System Cleaner has been fully re-designed and implemented. You can now choose exactly how you want temporary data to be cleaned within Settings > System Cleaner.
Major improvements for the performance and accuracy of the Software Uninstaller.
Major improvements to the overall user experience for example by having the user interface to better communicate to the user what is happening.
Improved the user interface of the File Finder, Big File Finder and Duplicate File Finder for easier and faster use.
Improved the overall responsiveness of the UI.
Improved the way the category selection works in System Cleaner. Before, selecting or unselecting a category could cause a long delay with 'please wait' box covering the screen. This is now much smoother and there is no 'please wait' screen needed.
Added an option to disable all tips and warnings from the app. This is now available in the Settings.
Added an option to hide the navigation panel category texts. This is in Settings > General.
Added an option to change the program's language to the Settings. Previously, it was only available in the app's main menu, but a key setting like this should also be available in the Settings screen. Now it is.
Improved the support for smaller window sizes in the Settings screen.
Changed the default configuration of the Software Uninstaller not to list built-in Windows apps or any Microsoft related products. This greatly improves the scan speed of the Software Uninstaller and in most cases, there is no need to list these anyway. The setting can be adjusted from Settings > Software Uninstaller.
Improved the way the program works with smaller screen resolutions.
Added support for scroll bar for the navigation menu. It will be visible only when needed, that is, the app window size being smaller than the space required to show all the navigation icons.
Added an option to keep completed modules in the scan progress screen. This is now enabled by default. Previously, completed modules were removed from the screen which could have made following the progress of the scan more difficult to follow.
Double clicking a results row in System Cleaner now opens the item's registry key in RegEdit or folder in Explorer.
Improved the sizing and scaling of the System Cleaner's category selector.
Improved the way the program communicates what it is currently doing to the user.
The program now explains better if the Initial Setup needs to be run again. This needs to be done if the system configuration has changed too much since the time Initial Setup was originally run, for example, after a big System Cleaner cleaning session.
System Cleaner's category listing now uses the same font as the rest of the UI.
Duplicate File Finder now supports finding duplicates of specific size and/or duplicate files that have not been modified within a given number of days.
Improved support for systems with multiple monitors.
Finder, Big File Finder and Duplicate Finder now remember the previously used search from paths.
Dashboard's CPU and RAM usage areas now display a color key legend in every screen size.
Clicking any button of a message box now closes the box faster.
You no longer need to click Close to end the installation process of the app, it now happens automatically.
System Cleaner and Software Uninstaller now display a popup tooltip panel allowing you to read the long result text rows easier.
Improved the detection of software left-overs in Software Uninstaller.
The program now starts with a fade-in effect.
Comes with improved Finnish, Dutch and Russian translations.
Fixes:
Fix: Cleaning the system with the System Cleaner could cause the cleaning process to complete so fast you cannot uncheck the 'Restart computer when done' option in the progress screen, leading to an unwanted system reboot. The process going to fast bug is now fixed, plus the Settings now contain an option to disable the restart altogether.
Fix: Changing the search options in Finder, Big File Finder and Duplicate Finder did not always update the screen contents correctly without having to resize or maximize the application window.
Fix: The dashboard could show an empty CPU usage value inside the circular element when the app starts.
Fix: Going from Software Uninstaller to Uninstall Software screen and then clicking the Back button could cause the app to remain in 'Please Wait' stage until any new tool is opened.
Fix: The program could start without properly initializing its main user interface until any tool is opened or the app window resized.
Fix: Using the Dashboard's Finder Panel's top right corner button Right Click > Finder option to open the Finder tool, caused the tool open but with the UI incorrectly initialized.
Fix: Scrolling the Dashboard's list up and down immediately after the program had started, could cause the scrolling not to be smooth and the CPU usage to be high for a few seconds.
Fix: In the My Account tool the Buy Now and Apply buttons could both sometimes display the default button frame, when naturally only one button should ever be the defined default button.
Fix: Starting the Software Updater could have shown the Finalizing step too early, causing it to remain on screen for a long time while the tool is loading.
Fix: The translations menu did not show the name of some languages, such as Japanese and Korean, in these languages, only in English.
Fix: The UI of the Big File Finder did not scale very well for small app window sizes.
Fix: System Cleaner results might not get automatically selected in some systems, even if the option was checked from Settings.
Fix: The program could display an 'integer overflow' error message if the program was run in a system that had been running for over six days.
Fix: The program could display an 'access violation' error message when started. However, this was a very rare bug and it was not system specific, meaning simply starting the program again would allow you to use the app.
Fix: If you pressed Ctrl + S before the main program window was fully loaded, it could cause the app display an Access Violation error message.
Fix: It was possible to double click the Clean And Fix All or Uninstall button of the Software Uninstaller while a confirmation message window was visible and this could lead to unexpected outcomes, such as an empty software uninstallation confirmation screen. This bug was entirely cosmetic.
Fix: If the program was started on a non-English Windows, it would first start automatically in that language, then convert back to English and then back to the ystem language only when the main dashboard was shown after the Initial Setup.
Fix: Software Uninstaller could list the same app twice, if it had a special character in its name. For example, 'Forté Agent' and a duplicate entry as 'Forte Agent'.
Fix: If you clicked the top right X button of the message box to restart jv16 PowerTools after changing its language, the app wouldn't close or restart, but instead it remained on screen with possibly half translated UI.
Fix: Clicking Software Updater from the main menu did not open the tool.
Fix: Quickly clicking between Task Manager and some other tool could make the app to display only a blank screen and without any way to continue to use the app other than restart it.
Fix: System Cleaner could display duplicate error categories in its categories listing.
Fix: Fixed some typos from the English user interface.

New in jv16 PowerTools 7.2.0.1320 (Dec 9, 2021)

Improvements:
New Tool: Big File Finder. This tool allows you to easily find old and obsolete files from your computer, not only by their size but also based on when the files were last used. This tool is especially handy in finding old downloaded files that could be deleted.
New feature: Dark Mode! Finally, the user interface supports Dark Mode. By default, the program automatically detects whether the Dark Mode is enabled in Windows and if it is, jv16 PowerTools starts in Dark Mode, too. You can also force the Dark Mode to be always used from the Settings.
New feature: System Cleaner categories view allows you to easier see what results were found and also select them by category.
New feature: Task Closer has been renamed to Task Manager and it now allows listing of running apps or processes, and it supports hiding of system related apps.
Improved the overall cleaning performance of the System Cleaner and Software Uninstaller scans. For example, Software Uninstaller now finds up to 100% more data relating to installed software.
Improved scan progress accuracy reporting.
Improved browser tracking and advertising cookie detection and cleaning.
Improved the safety of the System Cleaner scan by introducing a new safety option to the Settings.
Major improvements to the user interface of the Finder and Duplicate Finder tools.
Added an option to disable automatic reboot after System Cleaner scan. This is in Settings > System Cleaner.
The scan progress screen now has uniform path capitalization and better column width management.
After you download an updated version of the program via Tools > Check For Updates > Download New Version, the new version's setup file is automatically started.
The Buy Now button in the Dashboard now uses the same mouse cursor (hand point) as the Buy Now button in the top window panel. It makes sense to use the same for both.
Improved the accuracy of detecting installed software which do not correctly register themselves to the system, such as Forte Agent.
The buttons now use better visual style and are bigger for improved readability.
You can now open the main menu by right clicking the top window bar. Previously, the only way to open the main menu was to click the menu button in the top left corner.
All the main tools now offer more information what they do and how they work.
Finder and Duplicate Finder tools now remember if you change their Ignore Words settings. Before, the Ignore Words list was always restored to the default. Now the default list is only used when the tools are first used, and if user changes the ignore settings, those are remembered.
Added a greetings text to the Dashboard, explaining how to use the product. This will be especially useful for first time users.
The user interface of all the major tools now contain tips to help first time users and the added jv16 PowerTools logo in the results lists can also be Right Clicked to show the main menu.
The installer now creates a start menu shortcut also for the Widget.
Software Uninstaller's Right Click > Show Data, as well as the uninstall confirmation screen now show the data alphabetically sorted, making it much easier to read.
When a result list is updating, status bar no longer display the number of items selected as this number might be currently being updated.
Improved data sorting in the result list. If rows contains same data in one column, the next column's data is automatically used for sorting.
Duplicate File Finder now also displays the more detailed progress per running scan module.
The Settings screen now better supports smaller screen sizes and resolutions.
Added a Size column to the Finder and Duplicate Finder results listing.
New navigation bar icons and other general user interface improvements.
Fixes:
Fix: Software Uninstaller could miss some installed software, especially if the software's name included 'for windows', one example of such missed installed software was Seagate's 'Seatools for Windows' which was not listed by Software Uninstaller at all.
Fix: The app could incorrectly show in the bottom bar that a new version of the software is available for download.
Fix: It was not possible to translate some elements of the Dashboard, because the texts were missing from the translation file (English.txt).
Fix: The bottom part of the Dashboard could display an empty panel when an updated version release was detected.
Fix: Some used settings of the hard drive information in Dashboard could make content of the Dashboard not to be fully visible.
Fix: The scan progress could go up to 50% and then display the results. This could look misleading and let user think the scan only ran the half way. In reality, this was simply a cosmetic issue, the scan was fully run, the scan progress reporting simply did not work properly. Nevertheless, this is now fixed.
Fix: The word 'MB' was not translated in Task Closer.
Fix: System Cleaner could in some cases incorrectly display the default entry name of a registry entry as 'hkey_rootkey -' instead of the normal 'hkey_rootkey - @' format. This was a cosmetic issue and did not affect the way the System Cleaner worked.
Fix: The circular chart element in Internet Optimizer could contain visual artifacts.
Fix: The Task Manager's automatic task closing feature was showing an invalid scroll bar in the middle of the tool page.
Fix: The top right corner button's 'Move this panel up' and 'Move this panel down' did not work for the Statistics panel in Dashboard.
Fix: The description text of System Cleaner could contain incorrect numbers and the caption of the Fix button was not updated correctly.
Fix: The progress starting and ending graphics could contain visual artifacts such as horizontal lines.
Fix: The results search panel could show up before the actual results were visible in Software Uninstaller.
Fix: Dashboard's Right Click menu option 'Hide CPU and RAM using apps' did not work in all cases without restarting the app.
Fix: The System Cleaner could fail to delete software left-over type items.
Fix: The System Cleaner could under some circumstances delete temporary files which were unselected from the results list by the user. This was a rare bug and only affected temporary file cleaning, not any other data type.
Fix: Widget's option to not show itself in the list of running apps did not always work.
Fix: Some texts within the UI had typos.
Fix: Hiding some hard drives in Dashboard using the Right Click menu worked, but if you tried to then show them again, the content of the hard drive bars remained empty.
Fix: Choosing Select All when all the items of the result list are already selected, or choosing Select None when nothing is selected, could still have caused the program to show a Please Wait popup and cause few seconds of processing time when clearly none were required.
Fix: Uninstalling software could in some cases show an incorrect warning about the uninstalled software being similar with software that is not being uninstalled.
Fix: The top right corner panel buttons of the Dashboard could display incorrect color when the mouse cursor is over them.

New in jv16 PowerTools 7.0.0.1274 (Sep 30, 2021)

Fix: The program could randomly crash, that is, either show an Access Violation error message, or simply close itself without any error message. This was not a dangerous issue, that is, there was risk of damage to your system. The issues causing this have been now fixed, nevertheless.
Fix: Running the System Cleaner with the "Do not list temporary files which could be dangerous to delete" safety setting disabled (it is enabled by default), could damage Windows 10 Start Menu's pinned tiles feature (which is also not enabled by default).
Fix: System Cleaner could get stuck to the final "Please wait" phase. This bug was relating to many factors and did not happen often, but the more results are found, the more likely this was to happen.
Fix: In rare cases, the "The scan took x seconds and found a total of z registry errors" etc text in the System Cleaner results screen could contain wrong numbers. This could happen if the ignore list feature was used, and some found items were ignored but they were still counted as found errors - which is technically correct, but would be confusing.
Fix: Running the System Cleaner could get stuck to five or more minutes in some systems. This bug was relating to incorrect (read: slow) processing of certain type of data, only found on some systems.
Fix: After returning to the Dashboard, there could be a delay of few seconds during which the UI would not respond.
Fix: Scrolling the Dashboard area up and down could cause the running apps list to flicker and use a lot of CPU time.
Fix: Dashboard and Widget app listing could show apps with "< 1%" and "0%" CPU usage which is both superfluous and potentially confusing.
Fix: If you hid the hard drives from the Dashboard, it was required to restart the app to be able to see them again.
Fix: Dashboard or the default view of tools could display a horizontal scroll bar, which is not visually very pleasing to see if not absolutely needed.
Fix: Task Closer's software column could contain empty items, which is not visually pleasing.
Fix: If you clicked the button to start a tool while it is already scanning, this would abort the already running scan which makes no sense. For example, if you click System Cleaner button from the menu, while System Cleaner is already scanning.
Fix: The result list search feature could become visible before the results, making the user interface to look confusing.
Fix: Running the Finder after Duplicate Finder could cause the Finder results list to incorrectly include the Duplicate ID column. This was simply a left-over from running the Duplicate Finder and entirely a cosmetic issue.
Fix: It was possible that more than one instance of the app could be started at the same time, and if that happened, the app could hgave simply closed without any error message.
Fix: The program could show an error message about Access Violation when closed.
Fix: Using the result list search feature did not always work. Especially if you opened a tool, such as Software Uninstaller, wrote a search word, then close the tool and do it again, the second time the search would not start unless you hit the Enter key.
Fix: Check For Updates UI looked bad, because it did not scale to larger window sizes and could contain clipped texts.
Fix: Registry backups query box could be shown at awkward times.
Fix: In Windows 10, the app's progress on screen and the task bar progress could get out of sync, with the task bar progress showing a larger value than what is on the screen.
Fix: The total RAM and CPU usage number did not always match the sum of the three sections displayed in the circular charts on Dashboard.
Fix: The Languages menu could sometimes be missing from the main menu.
Fix: The Dashboard did not scale properly after the app window has been maximized, or there was a delay of many seconds.
Fix: On some screen resolutions, the Dashboard did not display any running app icons.
Fix: The Dashboard and the Widget could incorrectly show a running Synaptics Device Driver as "Synaptics Device Dri".
Fix: System Cleaner could list non existing hkey_local_machinedriver keys as invalid.
Fix: During the Initial Setup, the app could lose and gain focus many times, which caused unpleasant looking flickering.
Fix: Clicking the top right corner app window buttons could cause them to remain stuck with the click color.
Fix: The program could show information about a new version multiple times.
Fix: The result list search bar could sometimes be shown below the buttons bar, even though the buttons bar should always be at the bottom of the window.
Fix: The program window could fail to show up at all, if the screen resolution had been dramatically changed since the last time the app was last used.
Fix: Using the selection features, such as Select All while the result list is being filtered, could cause the selected number in the application's status bar not to be updated correctly.
Fix: The Settings window could sometimes have incorrectly sized elements.
Fix: Using the System Cleaner could in some rare cases cause file system issues to be picked up by Microsoft's SFC utility. These issues are not actual file system errors, but cases where jv16 PowerTools corrects an error in a way that SFC utility disagrees with and therefore reports the correction by jv16 PowerTools as invalid. Since this could be confusing to users, we have disabled this form of error correction from jv16 PowerTools for the time being.
Fix: In some rare cases, running the System Cleaner could remove a non working AutoDesk licensing service module. This happens because the module is not working correctly. However, if it is removed, AutoDesk software will stop working and need to be reinstalled. While this is technically not a bug in jv16 PowerTools - it removes a non working service module from the system as designed - the issue is now fixed by ignoring such AutoDesk related services.
Improvements:
Major improvements to the safety of System Cleaner, especially relating to ignoring data of installed software.
Major improvements to the responsiveness and overall smoothness of the UI.
Major user interface improvements in both how the overall user interface looks like, but especially how easy it is to use.
Entirely rewritten hard drive information area in the Dashboard now shows more detailed data.
Highly improved Settings window user interface.
Reduced the CPU usage of the Widget.
It's now possible to change the order of the dashboard content. And there is also more freedom to choose what is displayed there.
The result list columns are now sized based on their content. And, if you don't like this, you can also choose them to be equally sized. This option was added to Settings.
Improved the way the Dashboard scales to smaller app window sizes and screen resolutions.
Check For Updates now shows the Change Log if a new version is available.
Initial Setup information message now better explains what it does and why.
Moving the app window will automatically close any currently open message boxes.
Known issues
During the quality control for this version, we have also identified a few bugs in the new version. These are all cosmetic issues with no real user impact or risk and will be fixed in upcoming versions. These issues are:
The progress indication of System Cleaner working, that is, actually cleaning the system, is not accurate. For example, it can remain at under 5% for some time, and then suddenly complete. This is simply a cosmetic issue, it does not mean that the cleaning failed or did not complete.
The circular chart elements in Internet Optimizer may contain visual artifacts.
The text of the circular progress element in the progress screen, such as when scanning the system, can be sometimes drawn to the left side of the screen. This issue is evident if the window is resized during the progress screen being visible.
Sometimes the program fails to correctly fetch the icon of a running application, causing the CPU or RAM listing areas of the Dashboard to show either a missing or incorrect icon.
In some screen resolutions or application window sizes, the top of the navigation menu does not have enough top margin.
In some screen resolutions or application window sizes, some texts on the screen can be partially cut off due to not enough space.
The top right corner panel buttons of the Dashboard can display incorrect color when the mouse cursor is over them.
Lastly, the speed of the program can be slower than before, because of the additional safety checks and improved accuracy. We will address with more optimizations in the near future as well.

New in jv16 PowerTools 7.0.0.1262 Beta (Sep 10, 2021)

Improvements:
Major improvements to the responsiveness and overall smoothness of the UI.
Major user interface improvements in both how the overall user interface looks like, but especially how easy it is to use.
Major reduction to the average time it takes to run the Initial Setup.
Entirely rewritten hard drive information area in the Dashboard now shows more detailed data.
Highly improved Settings window user interface.
Reduced the CPU usage of the Widget.
The legend popup panel will now automatically close in Widget after it has been visible for a few seconds.
It’s now possible to change the order of the dashboard content. And there is more freedom to choose what is displayed there.
The result list columns are now sized based on their content. And, if you don’t like this, you can also choose them to be equally sized. This option was added to Settings.
Fixes:
In some rare cases, running the System Cleaner can remove a non working AutoDesk licensing service module. This happens because the module is not working correctly. However, if it is removed, AutoDesk software will stop working and need to be reinstalled. While this is technically not a bug in jv16 PowerTools – it removes a non working service module from the system as designed – the issue is now fixed by ignoring such AutoDesk related services.
Running the System Cleaner with the “Do not list temporary files which could be dangerous to delete” safety setting disabled (it is enabled by default), can damage Windows 10 Start Menu’s pinned tiles feature (which is also not enabled by default).
System Cleaner can get stuck to the final “Please wait” phase. This bug is relating to many factors and does not happen often, but the more results are found, the more likely this was to happen.
In rare cases, the “The scan took x seconds and found a total of z registry errrors” etc text in the System Cleaner results screen can contain wrong numbers. This could happen if the ignore list feature is used, and some found items were ignored but they were still counted as found errors – which is technically correct, but would be confusing for the user.
Running the System Cleaner can get stuck to five or more minutes in some systems. This bug is relating to incorrect (read: slow) processing of certain type of data, only found on some systems. It should now be fixed, and the System Cleaner is also now faster overall.
After returning to the Dashboard, there can be a delay of few seconds during which time the UI is not responding.
The Dashboard and the Widget could sometimes show an incorrect icon for a running app. This was purely a cosmetic issue, but it’s now fixed nevertheless.
Scrolling the Dashboard area up and down can cause the running apps list to flicker. This is also entirely a cosmetic issue.
Dashboard and Widget app listing could show apps with “< 1%” and “0%” CPU usage which is both superfluous and potentially confusing.
If you hide hard drives from the Dashboard view, it is required to restart the app to be able to see the hard drives again.
Dashboard or the default view of tools can display a horizontal scroll bar, which is not visually very pleasing to see if not absolutely needed.
Task Closer’s software column contains empty items, which is not visually pleasing. All cases of no software name are now filled with ‘(n/a)’ text instead.
If you click the button to start a tool while it is already scanning, this will abort the scan which makes no sense. For example, if you click System Cleaner button from the menu, while System Cleaner is already scanning.
The Dashboard and the Widget app can fail to display an icon of a running app, and instead an empty space is displayed.
The result list search feature could become visible before the results, making the user interface to look confusing.
Running the Finder after Duplicate Finder can cause the Finder results list to incorrectly include the Duplicate ID column. This is simply a left-over from running the Duplicate Finder and entirely a cosmetic issue.
It’s possible that more than one instance of the app can be started at the same time, and if that happens, the app may simply close without an error message.
The program could show an error message about Access Violation when closed.

New in jv16 PowerTools 6.1.1.1216 (Jul 8, 2021)

Fixes:
Fix: Performing a full system cleanup with the System Cleaner can take a very long time, with the progress indicator seemingly stuck at 90% or at 99% in some systems.
Fix: System Cleaner does not always find all the possible temporary files for removal.
Fix: If you do a full system cleaning with System Cleaner, and then run the scan again, it can still show more items to clean. This can repeat for many times, if not forever.
Fix: System Cleaner can fail to detect some broken shortcuts.
Fix: Some parts of the Settings window UI are not rendered correctly in all screen resolutions and application window sizes making some texts of check boxes invisible.
Fix: The Check For Updates screen can display a blank screen on some systems.
Fix: If you abort a system cleaning session, the checkbox about restarting computer remains visible on screen for a few seconds while the progress screen should only contain information that the operation was aborted. This is a cosmetic issue, but fixed now nevertheless.
Fix: In some systems, starting the app or running the Initial Setup could cause Windows to display error message saying "This operation has been cancelled due to restrictions in effect on this computer".
Fix: When a message box is shown, it will by default display the blinking text caret (cursor). It can look a bit confusing as to why there is one. It's now fixed. You can still place the caret there by clicking the message box text with your mouse cursor and select text for Ctrl + C.
Fix: Running jv16 PowerTools on a screen with a very small resolution (e.g. 800x600 px), the navigation panel can be drawn without any content (no icons) and no texts.
Improvements:
The scanning and cleaning speed of System Cleaner is now a lot faster.
The program is now compatible with the upcoming Windows 11.
Improved the Software Uninstaller's ability to find and delete left-over data.
The setup executable now also has the executable file information fields set, such as file comments.
Reduced the size of log files created during System Cleaner usage.
Added "Check For Updates" also to the Tools menu of the main window. Previously, it was only under the Help menu.
Comes with updated Dutch, Polish, Russian and Swedish translations.

New in jv16 PowerTools 6.1.0.1203 (Jun 17, 2021)

Fix: The System Cleaner can get stuck at 90% progress seemingly forever when scanning. This bug only affected some users, but for them, it was very annoying as it basically prevented them from using the tool.
Fix: With some users, the program fails to start entirely, or it starts but the entire UI is unresponsive and clicking any of the tool buttons does nothing. This was a very rare bug with only six people reporting it. We were able analyze the problem and it was caused by specific hardware configuration causing the UI initialization code to fail. It's now fixed.
Fix: The hard disk type (HDD vs. SSD) detection in the main Dashboard does not work correctly in all systems.
Fix: In some systems especially with a lot of registry errors, starting of the program can take unusually long.
Fix: The Widget can display List Index Out of Bounds error message.
Fix: When uninstalling software, the Software Updater icon can be incorrectly highlighted as the currently active tool in the navigation panel. This is purely a cosmetic issue.
Fix: The English user interface contains a few typos and grammar mistakes. They should all be fixed now.
Fix: Within Windows Control Panel's remove apps, jv16 PowerTools version number can be incorrectly listed as 5.x, it should be 6.x.
Fix: If you kill jv16 PowerTools using the X button from its Dashboard listing of apps, this does not start the Widget even though normally closing jv16 PowerTools would start it.
Fix: The automatic sizing of the Widget window does not work properly.
Fix: If you enter the Settings view in Widget, the Right Click menu will no longer display most of the Hide/Show menu items.
Fix: The save button in Widget's Settings view uses different colors compared to the other buttons in the Widget.
Fix: In some screen sizes, the default jv16 PowerTools window size might be too tall, getting partially covered by the Windows taskbar.
Fix: Starting the app with a command line parameter (such as jv16PT.exe -SoftwareUninstaller) does not always work.
Fix: One System Cleaner scan module is called "Scan automatically while starting software", which, makes no sense because of the incorrectly added word, it has now been fixed to "Scan automatically starting software".
Fix: Even with the Do not create any backups option selected from the Settings, the program can still create backups.
Fix: Settings "Show search panel by default" does not work. Even if unchecked, the search panel is visible in the tool results view.
18) Fix: It's not possible to close the Search panel in Task Closer. Clicking the X button does not do anything.
Fix: Settings "Show the reason why each item was found as invalid or safe to remove" does not work. That is, unchecking this option does not hide the reason column from System Cleaner UI.
Fix: Using the Finder to search for only registry data causes the scan progress screen to still display file system paths and the program says these file system paths are being searched. This is a cosmetic bug, the file system paths are not searched if you tell the Finder to only look for registry data, however the user interface incorrectly says file system is also searched.
Fix: Using the Right-Click menu is impossible in the message popup window because the menu gets automatically closed.
Fix: Opening a registry key with Finder's Right-Click menu option can show error message saying the registry key does not exist - even if it does exist.
Fix: Software Updater does not display the number of items in the bottom left corner of the window status bar.
Fix: The Widget has a small memory leak which causes its RAM usage to increase slowly but surely if it is running for a long time.
Fix: Even when a tool is open, the tool's navigation panel tooltip would say something like "click here to open the tool". As the tool is already open, the tooltip could be confusing.
Fix: When the navigation panel is minimized, the buttons may not display any tooltips at all.
Fix: Killing an app with the Widget can sometimes kill it correctly, but it still remains listed as a running app (because the list does not get refreshed correctly).
Fix: Using the result filter bar can cause the program to crash with an Access Violation error message.
Improvements:
Major speed improvements to all the main features: Initial Setup, System Cleaner scan and Software Uninstaller scan. These speed improvements are focused on the outliner systems. In other words, the average speed of each tool remains about the same, but in systems which had terribly slow Initial Setup or Software Uninstaller scan times, there should be major improvements.
Moved a lot of data processing from the main jv16 PowerTools executable to a helper executable residing in the same application folder. This improves data processing speeds and improves UI responsiveness, for example during Initial Setup.
It is now possible to select multiple items from the result list using the Shift key. Click first item you wish to select, press down the Shift key and then click the second item, and all items between the two items will be selected.
Added an option to select items by search word.
The message boxes now allow you to select the text for easier copying. For example, when in Software Uninstaller > Right Click > Show all data, you can simply select and copy with Control + C the data you want.
Added an option to open a running app's folder. To do this, simply Right-Click the app in the Dashboard or Widget and choose Open in Explorer.
The application and the widget now close down faster. Before, there could be a delay of few seconds.
Improved the UI update smoothness of the Widget.
It is now possible to select multiple items from the result list using the Shift key. Click first item you wish to select, press down the Shift key and then click the second item, and all items between the two items will be selected.
Made the option of killing apps from the Dashboard or Widget easier to notice.
If jv16 PowerTools is set to automatically start after software uninstallation reboot, the widget should not automatically start for a few seconds before the reboot happens.
Improved the smoothness of the Initial Setup progress display.
The Widget will now set its default data update speed based on the computer speed. Previously, the Widget could use 10%+ of CPU simply to update its data, because it was updating too frequently and with slower computers this would cause substantial CPU usage.
Improved the classification of running apps within the Dashboard and Widget. These features should only list running user apps, previously they could sometimes also list system apps as they were not all correctly detected.
Added an option to not show the Widget within its list of running apps.
Keeping the mouse cursor over any apps of the Dashboard's or the Widget's will now display the app's filename.
Improved detection of Big Fish game launcher games.
Saving the result list as a text file now also includes the column captions.
Software Uninstaller will now display the installation size of small apps in KB, instead of saying 0 MB.
Improved Software Uninstaller's accuracy in detecting installed software data, such as publisher names.
Added a select icon to the result lists, such as System Cleaner and Software Uninstaller to allow easier and faster selection of items.
We have noticed some users not realizing that the jv16 PowerTools button at the top left corner of the app window is the main menu. We have now addressed this by adding a tip text about it.
System Cleaner's Domain Whitelist now also ignores sub-domains. Before, adding domain.com would only whitelist that, anything like subdomain.domain.com cookies could still be listed by System Cleaner.
Clicking the Download button in Check For Updates screen will now take you to the direct download page. Before, the Change Log page of the new version was opened. Now the program has a separate button for opening that page to read more details of the new version.
There can be a delay of a second or few after clicking the Start button in Finder. During this time, the app seems frozen. It's not frozen, but this is not properly indicated. This is now addressed with an added Please Wait message and also by making the starting of search faster.
Deleting a lot of data with the Finder result screen can take some time. However, during this time there is no progress indication. Addressed by adding a Please Wait message.
Improved the Software Uninstaller's ability to avoid automatic reboots when uninstalling software.
Added an option to display the dates within the app in the format of year . month . day.
Comes with many updated translations, including Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Russian, Swedish and Thai.

New in jv16 PowerTools 6.0.0.1133 (Apr 8, 2021)

Fixes:
Fix: The program can display Access Violation and Privileged Instruction error message when starting, or when the Widget starts. This mainly happens with systems that have a third party application called WindowBlinds installed. This is a cosmetic issue, that is, it does not cause any harm to the system. Nevertheless, it is an annoying and it is now fixed.
Fix: Uninstalling jv16 PowerTools can leave up to three Widget related files behind to the C:UsersxxAppDataLocal directory. This is now fixed, and any previously left behind files will also be removed by this version's uninstaller.
Fix: The capitalization of some of the navigation menu items can be wrong when using the program in other than the English user interface.
Fix: The Widget's setting in jv16 PowerTools Settings window does not work properly. For example, you cannot re-enable Widget from the Settings if you have disabled it via its "Exit and never show again" feature.
Fix: The tooltips shown by the left navigation panel mixes English with translated texts. This only happens a Non English UI is used.
Fix: The dashboard can show gibberish (such as 0xB21A12) as the RAM manufacturer name.
Fix: The automatic updates do not work. This feature has now been entirely re-written and it is now working. If enabled, you should automatically receive all the hotfix and small updates to the program from now on. Major new updates still require a manual download and installation.
Fix: The program can display a cut message saying "if the download didn't start, go to https://". The message should include the correct address. This is now fixed.
Fix: Software Uninstaller can incorrectly remove a shared software installation directory. For example, if you have Firefox and Thunderbird installed from Mozilla, uninstalling one can cause the incorrect removal of the shared c:usersxAppDataLocalMozilla directory.
Improvements:
Major accuracy improvement: Software Uninstaller finds on average 25% more data relating to installed software, and System Cleaner contains a new registry cleaning scan module.
Major performance improvements: Initial Setup now runs on average 20% faster and System Cleaner about 10% faster.
The dashboard now shows whether your hard drives are old style mechanical hard drives or SSD. For SSDs, it will also show whether the drive is SATA SSD or NVMe SSD.
The program now attempts to detect Windows shutdown and if one is detected, the program now handles that more gracefully. This applies to both the main jv16 PowerTools and the Widget.
You can now enable and disable an automated reboot within the scan progress screen for system cleaning and uninstallation of software.
Improved the overall smoothness of the dashboard and the scan progress UI.
The widget will now blend to the desktop background smoother after the mouse cursor leaves the Widget app area.
This version comes with many updated translations, such as: Dutch, Swedish and Russian. German translation will be updated soon, too.

New in jv16 PowerTools 6.0.0.1120 (Mar 25, 2021)

Fixes:
Fix: Running the System Cleaner scan or fixing could cause the program to quit without an error message, or freeze. This was a rare issue, only happening to about one in one hundred users.
Fix: If there are no software requiring update, the Update button is not visible in Software Updater. This leaves only the Uninstall button visible, and it can be rather confusing why a tool called Software Updater only has an Uninstall button an no Update button. From now on, both buttons will be visible in the Software Updater, and clicking the Update button will display an error message if there is nothing to update.
Fix: If using the classic window menu (Settings > General Settings > Use custom system menu for the main program window), some of the Tools menu buttons do not work.
Fix: If the program starts in Chinese system, the Chinese translation is not automatically selected by the program.
Fix: Some parts of the user interface are always in English, i.e. they cannot not be translated via the translation files.
Fix: The program can entirely freeze up if a message box is displayed at a very specific time. This is a very rare bug which is caused by a race condition. Very specific conditions have to occur of this to show up, but if it does occur, it will freeze up the entire program and the program must be closed forcefully.
Fix: The Settings window displays the options to enable or disable the result list filtering. However, this feature is not yet fully implemented, and therefore not available. Fixed by hiding these settings for now.
Fix: The Initial Setup / Splash Screen or the actual app main window can show up with some elements, such as the window border or the top bar buttons not fully drawn. This was entirely a cosmetic problem, but fixed now nevertheless.
Fix: Under some circumstances, the font sizes in the Initial Setup screen could be inconstant with some texts using slight bigger font than other texts. Purely a cosmetic issue.
Fix: The Settings window still shows an option relating to the Back button, which no longer exists in the current UI. Fixed by removing the option.
Fix: The Initial Setup / Splash screen can display a blank white line in some screen resolutions. A purely cosmetic issue. Fixed now.
Fix: Using the Search feature in the tool result lists can cause the program to display Integer Overflow error message.
Fix: Maximizing the main program window in Windows 7 can cause the window to go entirely blank.
Fix: Under some cases, the Auto Updater could incorrectly save its log file to the Windows Desktop.
Fix: Starting the Internet Optimizer can incorrectly say there is no internet connection, even if there is.
Improvements:
New feature: jv16 PowerTools Widget allows you to see core system information directly from your Windows Desktop. It can either be a few pixel tall bar showing only basic CPU and RAM statistics, or larger tool for easy killing of apps.
Major performance optimization. The Initial Setup, System Cleaner and Software Uninstaller all now work considerably faster. In most systems, the speed improvement will be minor, 5% on average on our testing systems. However, in some systems with specific content (e.g. specific installed third party software), the speed improvement can be over 20%.
The dashboard now lists all system hard drives (previously only a maximum of two), and also shows their names and file system information.
Added an option for the user to select whether to show hard drive information on the main app dashboard. The default setting is to show the hard drive information of the system disk only.
Added options for the user to choose what kind of CPU and RAM data to see in the dashboard. You can adjust how the dashboard looks from the Settings window, or simply by Right Clicking the dashboard.
The window bottom panel buttons now have the same right hand padding (empty space) as below the button. Purely a cosmetic improvement.
Added a tip text to the Finder tool to let the user know they can write multiple search words at the same time by writing one search word per line.
The program automatically now capitalizes the tool names in the main navigation menu, even if they are not capitalized in the translation files.

New in jv16 PowerTools 6.0.0.1099 (Mar 9, 2021)

New in jv16 PowerTools 6.0.0.1068 RC (Feb 13, 2021)

Fixes:
Fix: The user interface flickers and resizes oddly.
Fix: The program can become slow and unresponsive if a result list contains more than few thousand items.
Fix: The program can show an Integer Overflow error message.
Fix: Software Uninstaller can list software with unusual names, such as Microsoft 549981 C 3 F 5 F 10.
Fix: Software Uninstaller can list some Windows related applications as third party apps, even if they are clearly builtin Windows apps. Mainly affects Windows 10
Fix: The width of the left navigation panel can be too small to fully fit all the tool name texts.
Fix: Select All Except One option is also visible in Find All's result screen, while it should only be visible in the Duplicate Finder results.
Fix: Select All from the main menu does not always work.
Fix: Opening Duplicate Finder will incorrectly move the active page selector in the navigation panel to indicate that the Finder would be active.
Fix: The results list of Finder may incorrectly display the Duplicate ID column, while it should only be visible in Duplicate Finder's results.
Fix: Software Uninstaller can incorrectly detect a software's uninstaller as its main executable.
Fix: Opening a tool can cause the program main window border to disappear for a few seconds.
Fix: In some screen resolution and screen size combinations it is possible to change the size of the program window to be so small, the left navigation panel gets empty.
Fix: Duplicate Finder can get stuck at 99%.
Fix: Clicking Help > Support does not do anything.
Fix: The Buy Now, Give Feedback and the top right corner window buttons can be shown in incorrect order.
Fix: The left navigation panel icons are not always centered when the navigation panel is minimized when a tool is open.
Fix: The program can display an error message about Range Check error.
Fix: Internet Optimizer can now be run in systems with VPN or software firewall. Before, the feature would refuse to run. Now it only shows a warning message in a case VPN or software firewall is detected.
Fix: The number of items per filtering item does not update if the filters and search words are used together in the tool result lists.
Fix: The top right corner buttons now have the same color as the top bar, and the same height as the Feedback button.
Fix: The filter panel area of the UI in the tool results may not be correctly initialized at the time the tool opens.
Fix: The dashboard's CPU and RAM listing of running apps can continue to list apps even after the apps are no longer running.
Fix: Some debug logs are correctly created but their file handles are never freed. This causes them not to be included to the Debug Zip file.
Fix: The left navigation panel icons can get scaled too big in some screen resolutions.
Fix: Finder, Duplicate Finder and Task Closer do not always honor the Global Ignore List.
Fix: Task Closer and Settings window's tabs are not properly sized.
Fix: The tip message after saving a result list to a file is incorrect.
Fix: Software Uninstaller does not always detect the software uninstaller key from the registry, even if one clearly exists.
Fix: The Ignore List is not always fully honored in Finder.
Improvements:
Improvement: The main user interface and the Dashboard are now much smoother.
Improvement: Added support for two more Select By Column options to the Select and Right Click menus of the tools.
Improvement: The progress of adding data to screen is now more accurately displayed. Before, it started slow and then jumped to 100%.
Improvement: Software Uninstaller can now better detect additional data relating to installed software.
Improvement: The program is now more compatible with large resolution screens, such as 4K displays.
Improvement: The program now starts with less flickering, and also the switching between tools is now smoother and less flickering.
Improvement: Duplicate Finder now runs much faster.
Improvement: Changing the program window size now works much smoother.
Improvement: The dashboard's data refresh date is now defined by the overall system status. In the case of high CPU usage, the dashboard will be updated less often.
Improvement: The dashboard now looks better also with very small screen resolutions.
Improvement: The buttons are now better sized. Before, a tool's Close button could be wider than the main action button, even if the action button had longer text.
Improvement: The number of selected items is now updated much faster.
Improvement: The program now generates better log files in the case of an internal error.
Improvement: The user interface will now inform you if you try to search data with a search word ignored with the Ignore List.

New in jv16 PowerTools 5.0.0.939 (Nov 12, 2020)

New in jv16 PowerTools 5.0.0.845 (Oct 13, 2020)

New in jv16 PowerTools 5.0.0.832 (Oct 8, 2020)

New in jv16 PowerTools 5.0.0.798 (Sep 24, 2020)

New in jv16 PowerTools 5.0.0.786 (Sep 10, 2020)

Fixes:
Aborting a scan and then starting it again does not always work, instead, starting the scan again will only show the aborting scan screen again.
The program can display an error message about floating point divizion by zero in some rare cases.
The Internet Optimizer can fail to run without showing any error message, it would simply return to the home screen.
Find All's Ignore List is not always properly initialized. For example, jv16 PowerTools's own debug folder should by default be ignored, but this does not always happen.
Scan progress screen's font sizes can change during a scan without any good reason.
The program can fail to detect all the installed browsers from the system, which leads them not being listed in jv16 PowerTools Settings window.
Sometimes clicking the top bar of the main program window is incorrectly interpreted as a double click, causing the window to get maximized.
Internet Optimizer can get stuck when applying the new Internet settings.
The Registry Backups Disabled popup can be shown annoyingly immediately after the Initial Setup has completed and the main window shown. Now, there is a small delay before it can be shown.
Initial Setup can fail and show an error message in some systems.
Software Uninstaller can fail to uninstall software with an error message "Error No uninstallation data found. Nothing to do."
Running System Cleaner can leave orphaned threads running in the background. While they don't normally cause any problems, they can make the program seem slow and use more RAM than expected.
The tools can get stuck to the Adding Data To Screen phase, especially if the tool was ran after using System Cleaner. This was a rare bug, only occurring in some systems, and only sometimes.
After you first start the program, the tool tips on the main program window are correct. However, after you start the program again, the tool tip texts are cropped, with only the first sentence visible.
System Cleaner does not always detect all of the broken shortcuts from Windows Desktop or Start Menu. This is a false negative type of bug, meaning not all broken shortcuts were detected.
Sometimes the tool icons on the main screen can have jagged edges.
In some systems, maximizing the main program window can make it cover the Windows task bar.
Buttons may be drawn using a slightly incorrect color. This cosmetic issue can happen, for example, if you click the Close button of a tool, and then re-open it and repeat this a few times.
Improvements:
New tool: Task Closer. This tool allows you to maximize the performance of your computer and your mental focus by closing background processes and notification windows during gaming or working.
New tool: Software Updater. This tool allows you to see which of your installed programs and games are outdated and allows you to start the download of the latest versions with one click.
New tool: Command Prompt mode allows you to execute simple commands by typing them to the main screen. This feature is especially handy for people who have used to using computers more using the keyboard and not mouse.
Greatly improved the error resistance of the Internet Optimizer. Before, the entire process could fail if few DNS server benchmark tests failed, for example due to some limitations to the internet connection. Now, it will simply automatically try tests again and proceed even if minor failures occur.
Improved the error message for local DNS server settings.
Improved Software Uninstaller's ability to detect the version information of software.
Greatly improved Software Uninstaller's ability to detect the installation date of software.
Greatly improved System Cleaner's ability to detect leftovers from software which have been uninstalled after jv16 PowerTools has been installed.
The program will now start with less flickering of the main window user interface.
Find All's default ignore list now also includes the system temporary data directories.
Improved the scaling for 4K displays. The program still doesn't look perfect at 4K resolution, but it's now a lot better. We will improve the 4K support with the next versions.
The superfluous Close button bar at the bottom of certain tools, such as the Support page, will now be hidden if the window size is too small to accommodate it. This will free more space to the actual content on screen.
User can now choose which tools are available in the home screen, and whether the System Cleaner should have a larger icon.
The License Agreement has been updated to include detailed information what kind of data jv16 PowerTools sends to us. In short, it sends statistical information to help with our quality control and product development. The only personal information is sent if you use the My Account tool to activate your copy of the program, this will naturally send the name and email address you input to the tool.
The program will automatically prune old debug logs from its debug folder.
Internet Optimizer now uses less than 40% of the resources it used before.
Massive speed improvements to the Initial Setup. In some systems, Initial Setup is now up to 400% faster. The speed improvement is based on improved analysis of very specific type of data. If your system doesn't happen to have this data, the speed improvement might be very minor for you.
The font of the tool name is now better adjusted based on screen size, causing less window real estate to be used for the tool name text and freeing up more space for the actual tool user interface.
Improved the detection of windows to close in Task Closer.
Greatly improved the program's ability to detect installed software before Software Uninstaller has been run. This improves the accuracy of the System Cleaner and the list of available software in Game Booster.
Added a one time confirmation to Task Closer.
The default listing of Software Updater only consists of the software that should be updated.
Software Updater now considers version such as 1.53.0.1088 and 1.53.1087 to be equal, even though they technically are not, but certain software publishers use these interchangeably and that caused some incorrect update analysis results in Software Updater before.
Optimized the program's memory usage, and this version will again use less RAM than before.
Improved the usability of the program using only a keyboard - now pressing Ctrl + Enter will press the default button of the currently open tool.
Improved support for systems with multiple monitors.
Resizing the main program window now works faster and smoother.

New in jv16 PowerTools 5.0.0.730 (Jul 30, 2020)

New in jv16 PowerTools 5.0.0.697 (Jul 16, 2020)

Fixes:
Bug fix: 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.
Bug fix: 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.
Bug fix: You cannot use Ctrl + A to select all the text in the Software Uninstaller > Uninstall Software screen.
Bug fix: In some systems, the automatic detection of Whitelisted Domains to be listed in Settings > System Cleaner does not work, and no domains are listed.
Bug fix: Software Uninstaller can incorrectly list some software twice, with and without a version number in the program's name.
Bug fix: Find All's group captions are not correctly capitalized. For example, file paths can be incorrectly starting with a non capital drive letter.
Bug fix: The default sort of Software Uninstaller is incorrect.
Bug fix: 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.
Bug fix: Restoring a backup with the Backup tool can cause Windows RegEdit.exe error message to show up.
Bug fix: The bottom status bar texts in the main window are not always correctly positioned (not centered).
Bug fix: Some parts of the user interface cannot be translated because the texts are missing from the translation file (English.lng)
Bug fix: Applying filters in System Cleaner, Software Uninstaller or Find All result screens does not hide the filter panel while the screen updates.
Bug fix: 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.
Bug fix: 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.
Bug fix: 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.
Bug fix: 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.
Bug fix: System Cleaner's result screen always contains a long English text, even if you are using the program in another language.
Bug fix: The scan progress screen can display a cosmetic mistake by showing hkey_local_machinesomekey - (full key). The trailing character is incorrect here.
Bug fix: 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.
Improvements:
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.
Greatly improved the speed of uninstalling software with the Software Uninstaller.
Greatly improved the performance of Results Search and the result list filtering features when dealing with lists with a lot of data.
Improved the accuracy of the Software Uninstaller. It again finds more data to remove when you use it to uninstall software.
Improved Software Uninstaller's ability to delete locked and otherwise write protected data.
Improved the progress reporting of uninstalling software.
Improved System Cleaner's ability to find more leftovers from old software.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Ctrl + A in the home screen will now select everything in the Find All's search box.
The main program window now starts with less visual flickering and elements moving around immediately after the window becomes visible.
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.
Improved the accuracy of the progress reporting, especially when cleaning the system with System Cleaner and uninstalling software with Software Uninstaller.
The installation file of the program is now better in detecting and closing any instance of jv16 PowerTools, to ensure a smoother update process.

New in jv16 PowerTools 5.0.0.675 (Jul 4, 2020)

New in jv16 PowerTools 5.0.0.668 (Jul 2, 2020)

Fixes:
Bug fix: The program could sometimes get stuck to a 90% or 99% scan progress for extended period of time.
Bug fix: Maximizing the program window can cause it to get too big, covering the Windows task bar.
Bug fix: 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.
Bug fix: 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.
Bug fix: Software Uninstaller can in some systems list some installed software twice, especially the Microsoft Edge browser.
Bug fix: Moving the mouse cursor around the main window can cause the tool caption texts to randomly move by one pixel left or right.
Bug fix: 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.
Bug fix: 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.
Bug fix: 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.
Bug fix: 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.
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. On average, the previous version used 255 MB, this version uses 177 MB.
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.

New in jv16 PowerTools 5.0.0.608 (May 21, 2020)

Fixes:
Bug fix: System Cleaner will may not find any browser history or cookie data.
Bug fix: Moving between different tools could cause the app to get stuck on some tool page, or to get stuck showing "Starting..." text.
Bug fix: The application may fail to start on some systems. It will display the first screen but never proceeds from there.
Bug fix: The program may display Not Responding text when starting, especially during the Initial Setup.
Bug fix: 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.
Bug fix: 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.
Bug fix: 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.
Bug fix: Disabling one or more registry scan modules from the Settings causes no registry scan modules to be ran by System Cleaner.
Bug fix: Clicking the result list columns sorts the list, but only the result list in System Cleaner shows the sorting direction symbol in the column.
Bug fix: 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.
Bug fix: The x days of trial remaining text at the bottom right corner can contain invalid character (especially if you are using Windows 7)
Bug fix: The Check For Updates screen can contain incorrectly sized and positioned items when it starts.
Bug fix: If user has changed certain settings, the Software Uninstaller can incorrectly list all installed Windows components as left-over traces.
Bug fix: 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.
Bug fix: When using the program in other language than English, the status text of the splash screen can show an incorrect text.
Bug fix: 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.
Bug fix: Software Uninstaller does not detect certain types of registry keys to be relating to installed software. For example, hkey_classes_rootxnview.bmp key is not detected as a key relating to app Xnview while it clearly is.
Bug fix: 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.
Bug fix: Maximizing the program window can make it go over the Windows task bar, which is probably undesired.
Bug fix: Some parts of the user interface are not translated (if you use the program in other language than English).
Bug fix: 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.
Bug fix: The Automatically fix found items option does not always work in the System Cleaner.
Bug fix: 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.
Bug fix: Some texts are missing a space after a period.
Bug fix: 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.
Improvements:
New Tool: Find All is a new tool for searching registry and file system data.
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.
New Feature: System Cleaner now shows a detailed description of why each item was detected as an error or unneeded data.
New Feature: Software Uninstaller will now detect and list first any newly installed software.
New Feature: A new System Cleaner scan module to detect and fix common system errors logged by the Events Log in Windows.
New Feature: The software can now be used to delete locked and write protected files.
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.
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.
New Setting: You can disable the automatic closing of jv16 PowerTools message boxes.
Major improvements in System Cleaner's accuracy of detecting errors and also its ability to clean and fix them.
Major improvements to the Software Uninstaller's ability to uninstall software, both in speed and in accuracy.
Major user interface improvements to make everything work smoother and ensure the program is easy to use.
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.
The user interface now shows tool tip texts, especially in the home screen to explain in more detail what each feature does.
Added a progress bar to the program's splash screen, and made the entire program's startup process smoother.
Scan progress is now also visible in the Windows task bar (only in Windows 10).
The main program window now uses a custom system menu to optimize the use of screen real estate (can be disabled from the Settings).
Added a Right Click menu options to select and unselect all the scan modules in Settings > System Cleaner.
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.
The text sizes in the home screen are now better scaled to fit different screen sizes and resolution settings.
Scan progress screen of System Cleaner and Software Uninstaller now display the currently analyzed registry key or directory.
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.
It is no longer possible to minimize the columns of result lists to so small, the checkboxes get partially invisible.
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.
Internet Optimizer now shows more accurate status data while it is working.
Added an option to Settings to allow user to increase the font size used in the main program window.
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.)
Added option to select all and select none in the Right Click menu of the System Cleaner.
System Cleaner no longer displays the Scan Report in the case of custom scan, that is, not all scan modules being ran.
The empty area between home screen main tool icons and the icon text caption is now also clickable and starts the tool.
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.
Software Uninstaller will now display all file system and registry paths correctly capitalized.
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.
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.
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.
Any time a file name, file path or a registry path data is shown on screen, it is now shown with consistent capitalization.
Improved the order in which software are listed by the Software Uninstaller
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.
Clicking the Apply button in the Settings screen now works faster.
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.
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.
The name of the software currently being uninstalled is now shown in proper case. Before, it was always shown with lower case.
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.
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.
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.

New in jv16 PowerTools 5.0.0.527 (Mar 5, 2020)

Bug Fixes:
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.
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.
The Initial Setup can take a very long time to run on some systems.
Tools menu > Maintenance > Flush Cache does not trigger the Initial Setup to run again, even if it says it would.
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.
System Cleaner can incorrectly say no items found even if some were found.
On small screens the splash screen’s bottom texts can overlap the version number text.
System Cleaner can ask for permission to close web browsers even if you have selected not to run any browser related cleaning modules.
System Cleaner can search for temporary files even if the temporary file scan module has been disabled from Settings.
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.
Starting the System Cleaner can show confirmation text in English, even if you are using the program in another language.
The program can display Stringlist Out Of Bounds error when starting. This is a very rare issue, happening only in some systems.
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.
Internet Optimizer can get stuck in the Starting … screen.
Feature Improvements:
Improved the detection and the listing of browser cache data.
System Cleaner’s information message boxes are now shown only if System Cleaner is open and active.
Made the user interface for the System Cleaner settings clearer.
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.
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.
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.
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.
My Account’s Apply button is now only visible if needed.
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.

New in jv16 PowerTools 5.0.0.513 (Feb 28, 2020)

Bug Fixes:
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 browser cookie or history data.
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.
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.
Fixed a misspelled word “erros” from the English user interface (should be “errors”).
The check for multiple program instances is not always working, allowing user to run multiple instances of the program at the same time.
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.
Running the Software Uninstaller can display an error message relating to converting date. This is a very rare issue, happening in under one system in one hundred.
The scan progress screen can display lines starting with an empty space character. This is a cosmetic issue but fixed now nevertheless.
The program can display gray color panels behind texts if user is using Windows with the classic theme or high contrast theme enabled.
Uninstallation of software with the Software Uninstaller can display the warning message of uninstalled software being similar to another software multiple times.
The System Cleaner can list firewall policy registry entries which are recreated by Windows.
Adding a drive letter to the Ignore List will not prevent software from that hard drive being listed in the Software Uninstaller.
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.
System Cleaner’s check boxes are incorrectly aligned if user’s system is using large fonts in Windows settings.
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.
Some texts from the user interface cannot be translated, i.e. they do not exist in the English.txt file.
The color of the background panels in System Cleaner’s report screen can be incorrect.
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.
The program does not close itself if it is still running when user starts the uninstallation of jv16 PowerTools.
Clicking to Abort a scan may cause it to get stuck to a screen with text “Starting …”
Cleaning browser history data could cause browser bookmarks also be removed or altered in some rare cases.
Feature Improvements:
System Cleaner now lists all the browser history and cookie data per domain, allowing you to choose what data to exactly clear.
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.
Improved the smoothness of scrolling the System Cleaner and Software Uninstaller result lists.
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.
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”.
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.
Improved VPN and firewall and internet security software detection.
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.
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.
Added an option to delete unused translations and clear jv16 PowerTools cache files (Tools > Maintenance menu).
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.
Attempting to activate a license in My Account without newsletter subscription setting will now automatically scroll the setting into view.
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.

New in jv16 PowerTools 5.0.0.484 (Feb 28, 2020)

Bug Fixes:
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.
Bug fix: The Internet Optimizer scan can freeze and stay on the screen forever. Also a rare issue, under 1 system per 45.
Bug fix: The Initial Setup or running of the scans may cause the program to display Not Responding in its window caption.
Bug fix: Running the application cache cleaning feature of the System Cleaner can clean PowerDVD 19’s unused playlists.
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.
Bug fix: The Check For Updates screen may not always display a button to download the new version (if any is available).
Bug fix: It’s not possible to translate the Restart PowerTools and Close PowerTools buttons in the user interface.
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.)
Bug fix: Uninstalling certain software can cause the program to get stuck and the uninstallation does not complete.
Bug fix: Software Uninstaller does not always warn you if you are about to uninstall software without uninstalling a relating software. In these cases, there should be an extra confirmation message but it is not always shown.
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.
Bug fix: The Trans_Missing.txt file may contain items which do, in fact, exist in the current translation file.
Bug fix: Uninstalling software with the Software Uninstaller can terminate the Windows explorer.exe process.
Bug fix: Software Uninstaller can list Steam games or apps incorrectly under the Leftover Software category.
Bug fix: The scans can start with the text “Starting” not correctly entered on the scan progress screen.
Bug fix: Uninstalling Filezilla by Software Uninstaller makes the computer reboot due to the Software Uninstaller failing to check the Reboot Later radio button.
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.
Bug fix: Enabling the automatic error fixing mode from Settings causes the System Cleaner to fail with a blank white screen.
Feature Improvements:
Improved the overall performance of the program, from starting the first time and also the scan speed.
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.
The Clean And Fix Everything button of System Cleaner is now bigger to make it easier to see.
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.
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.
The circular scan progress indicator’s size is now better adjusted for the size of the window and the screen.
Comes with updated translation files, such as updated Dutch.
Improved the format of the Trans_Missing.txt to take into account the name of the translation in question.
Improved the accuracy of Steam game and app detection of the Software Uninstaller.
Greatly improved Software Uninstaller’s ability to detect software installation directories and software main executable paths.
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.
Improved the overall smoothness of the scan progress screen. Less elements jumping around and resizing during the scan.
The default action button of each tool is now highlighted and larger.
Added a loading spinner also to the Settings screen. Now the Backups, Settings and My Accounts all start with the same way.

New in jv16 PowerTools 4.2.0.1968 (Dec 28, 2018)

New in jv16 PowerTools 4.2.0.1942 (Dec 2, 2018)

Bug Fixes:
Fix: The software can fail to start after installation and display an error message about not being able to create a directory.
Fix: The software can display an “Stack Overflow” or “Access Violation” message during Initial Setup or Clean and SpeedUp My Computer scan, which makes it impossible to use the software.
Fix: If user attempts to uninstall many software with the Software Uninstaller AND also uninstall jv16 PowerTools as one of these software, the operation will fail as after jv16 PowerTools is uninstalled, the uninstallation of any remaining software will not take place as jv16 PowerTools cannot uninstall them as itself has already been uninstalled.
Fix: In the case you are using jv16 PowerTools in a computer which has been turned on over 31 days, jv16 PowerTools can display an error message of “Range check error” relating to function LoadColumnWidths.
Fix: If the software’s installation directory has been corrupted, the software can start with a visually corrupted user interface missing all the texts.
Fix: The software can display a “Range Check Error” message during Initial Setup or Clean and SpeedUp My Computer scan.
Fix: The software can display “System Error. Code: 1400. Invalid window handle.” error message.
Fix: The Initial Setup can be very slow in Windows Vista and Windows 8 based systems taking over 15 minutes to run.
Fix: The Clean and SpeedUp My Computer scan can fail to complete at its final step and show “Out of Memory” error message.
Fix: Certain tools, such as the first step of the Clean and SpeedUp My Computer, or the Duplicate File Finder shows a status bar at the bottom of the window while there is no need to show it and it is always empty.
Fix: In some systems the Duplicate File Finder does not ever find any duplicate files.
Fix: Uninstalling certain software with the Software Uninstaller can cause the program to show “Out of Memory” error message.
Fix: If you enter a directory as an input to the Wipe Files tool, the tool will fail with an error message of “Failed to access directory” even if the directory can be accessed.
Feature Improvements:
Improvement: The Initial Setup will now run up to 80% faster.
Improvement: Improved compatibility with jv16 PowerTools and Dragon NaturallySpeaking, Corel WordPerfect and Adobe Acrobat Reader.
Improvement: The software will now start faster, especially in cases where the software has been installed in to the system for a long time.
Improvement: The Software Uninstaller will now find a lot more left-over files and directories of installed software.

New in jv16 PowerTools 4.2.0.1919 (Nov 2, 2018)

New in jv16 PowerTools 4.2.0.1898 (Sep 28, 2018)

New in jv16 PowerTools 4.2.0.1811 (Jun 28, 2018)

Bug Fixes:
Fix: Improved compatibility of the Clean and SpeedUp My Computer with Windows 10.
Fix: Improved compatibility of the Software Uninstaller with popular Microsoft products such as Office and OneDrive.
Fix: Find My Licenses tool can display no licenses, even if user has valid licenses.
Fix: The “Restart computer after done” option does not always work with Clean and SpeedUp My Computer.
Fix: Improved compatibility with Windows 10. In the most aggressive mode, Clean and SpeedUp My Computer can list items relating to Windows 10 that may not be safe to delete.
Fix: Improved compatibility with Google Chrome browser.
Fix: Fixed a typo from the message which is shown if user decides to uninstall jv16 PowerTools.
Fix: The Software Uninstaller does not correctly list some common software, such as Notepad++.
Fix: The Software Uninstaller could list Microsoft Office as an installed software, but still didn’t install its components such as Microsoft Outlook, Word, Access etc.
Fix: Although “Open jv16 Power Tools to the Main Tools view …” is NOT checked, the program always opens to the Main Tools view anyway.
Fix: The Software Uninstaller can show unneeded data within the Version column.
Fix: Improved compatibility with Apple Bonjour.
Fix: Fixed a case of bad grammar from the License Agreement.
Feature Improvements:
Improvement: Greatly improved the overall accuracy of the Clean and SpeedUp My Computer.
Improvement: Greatly improved the overall accuracy of the Software Uninstaller.
Improvement: Completely rewritten Left-Over Software detection engine now better detects which software is a left-over trace and which are correctly installed.
Improvement: Improved the accuracy of registry errors grouped together in the Clean and SpeedUp My Computer.
Improvement: In the case you attempt to open the program’s Handbook but it does not exist, the software can automatically open it online for you.
Improvement: The Software Uninstaller can now better detect software under the shared software directories.
Improvement: Improved the speed and stability of the Initial Setup.

New in jv16 PowerTools 2017 4.1.0.1753 (Aug 22, 2017)

New in jv16 PowerTools 2017 4.1.0.1747 (Aug 22, 2017)

New in jv16 PowerTools 2017 4.1.0.1738 (Aug 22, 2017)

New in jv16 PowerTools 2017 4.1.0.1728 (Jun 16, 2017)

Bug Fixes:
Fix: The software’s executables are again signed with a code signing certificate (the previous certificate expired).
Fix: Pictures AntiSpy can display an error message about EFOpenError (in the case it cannot access a picture file).
Fix: The Main Window can display an error message “Control pnlHomeHost has no parent window.”
Fix: The Clean and SpeedUp My Computer can dispay an EAccessViolation error message when fixing the found errors.
Fix: When jv16 PowerTools is installed, it’s possible the GUI mode in Quick Tutorial will have neither options selected by default.
Fix: Fixed a typo from the English User Interface that said “Licensesd” instead of “Licensed”.
Fix: The Clean And SpeedUp My Computer can display an error message relating to “edb.chk” file.
Fix: The Clean And SpeedUp My Computer can go back and forth between the “Performing final analysis” and the list of currently running scan modules.
Fix: Using the software with a translation, especially German, can make some of the tab caption texts not to be fully displayed due to lack of space on screen.
Fix: Find My Licenses tool can display an incorrect date of the license purchase for very old order (before 2016).
Fix: My Account and Find My License tools can in some rare cases display a data download error even if there is a valid internet connection.
Fix: Opening the Main Window can display an Access Violation error message relating to GetItemCount.
Feature Improvements:
Improvement: The Initial Setup runs up to 30% faster.
Improvement: The Software Uninstaller runs up to 20% faster.
Improvement: The Clean and SpeedUp My Computer runs up to 5% faster.
Improvement: In the case user attempts to license the software with an incorrect name, such as only using their first name or a nickname, the software now displays a better error message. We require our users to use their full name when licensing the software. If you have licensed the software with a nickname or with your first name only, please contact our support to add your full name to record so you can use the software correctly.
Improvement: The software will automatically clean old debug data saved to its Backups folder.
Improvement: Improved compatibility with Roxio and Corel products.
Improvement: The Clean and SpeedUp My Computer will now display an additional confirmation before restarting user’s computer. Before, a tick in a checkbox was enough to confirm the computer restart which could cause an unwanted system reboot.
Improvement: The software now automatically scans the computer for any temporary files created and accidentally left over by jv16 PowerTools itself.

New in jv16 PowerTools 2017 4.1.0.1703 (Apr 13, 2017)

New in jv16 PowerTools 2017 4.1.0.1689 (Mar 21, 2017)

New in jv16 PowerTools 2017 4.1.0.1681 (Feb 17, 2017)

Bug Fixes:
Fix: While loading or working, the software can display a “not responding” message.
Fix: The software can display an error message Access violation at address 00470DA1.
Fix: The software can display an error message “Cannot open file. The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.”
Fix: Uninstalling certain software with the Software Uninstaller can freeze the software.
Fix: Mass File Renamer’s convert filename to lower case does not work (converts to upper case instead).
Fix: Windows can display an error message relating to jv16pt_preworker1.exe if a software called Boxcryptor is installed to the system. (The error message is purely a cosmetic problem.)
Fix: In some systems, enabling the Startup Timer can cause the system to start slower.
Fix: Startup Timer can incorrectly label some system startups as “Slow” or “Very slow”.
Improvements:
Improvement: The Initial Setup runs now up to 50% faster.
Improvement: The Software Uninstaller now starts up to 40% faster.
Improvement: The Clean And SpeedUp My Computer now runs 10% faster.
Improvement: When ran for the first time, the home screen’s system health gauges are updated up to 60% faster than before.
Improvement: In case the software’s cache has been cleaned improperly, such as by a third party software, the Initial Setup will automatically be run again.
Improvement: The software’s user interface is now more responsive, especially while the software is working.
Improvement: The Software Uninstaller can now detect the installed software with better accuracy.
Improvement: The Software Uninstaller can now better handle the uninstallation of software that are currently running, either active or on the background.
Improvement: The Clean And SpeedUp My Computer now closes the “No changes are made yet” message box if user clicks the Delete or Fix button.
Improvement: Reduced the resource usage of the jv16pt_PreWorker executable that automatically starts with Windows.
Improvement: The software will from now on automatically start up showing the main tools instead of the home screen, in case the software has just been installed and there is no data to be shown in the home screen yet.
Improvement: The way the Startup Timer shows the effects of the Startup Optimizer and the speed of the system startup has been made more clear.

New in jv16 PowerTools 2017 4.1.0.1608 RC4 (Oct 6, 2016)

Fix: Some windows can get stuck to the "Working, please wait" loading screen.
Fix: Clean and SpeedUp My Computer does not always list MRU items (data relating to Most Recently Used lists) under MRU category in the result list.
Fix: Reset License Information button does not always work, sometimes the software restarts and it is still using the old license.
Fix: My Account can display error "Failed to download license information" in the case user enters incorrect name or email address. It should display a more informative error message.
Fix: If you uninstall jv16 PowerTools, it could leave shortcuts behind in the Desktop or Start Menu.
Fix: The Maintenance tool can incorrectly display a label of "Generating software list" while it is working.
Fix: The Registry Information tool can have cosmetic issues (wrong text being displayed) under the 64 bit registry details tab.
Fix: With 100% registry and system health, there can be an empty "recommended actions" box with no tools in it in the Home View.
Fix: Software can show Stack Overflow error message when started.
Fix: Some texts in Startup Timer may not be displayed correctly (overlapping).
Fix: Some texts overlap in Windows AntiSpy.
Fix: While the Software Uninstaller is uninstalling software, it is possible to check and uncheck software from the list.
Fix: The software can crash if you try to use the Software Uninstaller to uninstall oneself (jv16 PowerTools 2017).
Improvement: Clean and SpeedUp My Computer now better indicates the progress of the scan to the user.
Improvement: The transitions from one loading screen to the next one are now smoother in Clean and SpeedUp My Computer.
Improvement: My Account window will from now on force a restart of the software if user resets their license information.
Improvement: If you uninstall jv16 PowerTools, the uninstaller may report that jv16pt_PreWorker1.exe is running and cannot be removed. An information dialog addressing this has been added to the uninstaller.
Improvement: Improved the accuracy of the Clean and SpeedUp My Computer scan.
Improvement: Improved the speed in which the Tutorial allows user to change the language of the software.
Improvement: Improved the user interface of My Account tool.
Improvement: Enhanced Software Uninstaller's performance and accuracy in uninstalling software.
Improvement: If the software is run in a system that has a very small screen, the messages are displayed as normal Windows message dialogs, not as lines at the bottom of the PowerTools' window.

New in jv16 PowerTools 2017 4.1.0.1602 RC3 (Sep 18, 2016)

Fix: The software can start very slowly.
Fix: While running the Clean and SpeedUp My Computer or Software Uninstaller, the software can display an Access Violation error and never complete the scan.
Fix: The software can display an Out Of Memory error message.
Fix: Changing the software's language is very slow.
Fix: The software can display an Access Violation error during the Initial Setup and never complete it.
Fix: Running the File Cleaner or File Finder can display a gray bar across the tool window while the tool is scanning.
Fix: The system health snapshot compare drop down menu is sometimes drawn few pixels too wide, causing it to be partially outside of the window.
Fix: Clicking the Back button while a tool is working can cause the software to show an Access Violation error message.
Fix: It's not possible to use the Check For Vulnerable Software tool more than once per session, as the Start button is not visible after the first use.
Fix: Moving between different tools using the Back button can cause the software sometimes to display a blank white screen (from which you can escape by simply clicking the Back button again, though).
Fix: The Startup Timer does not always record new system startup times, for example, if you restart your computer five times, it can show only three or for startup times.
Fix: If you reach 100% system health, the Home Screen will still say show "Recommended Actions" text but there are no recommendations.
Fix: Running the Clean and SpeedUp My Computer does not always properly update the Home Screen's system health bars.
Fix: The Home Screen does not always correctly display the line when Clean and SpeedUp My Computer was last run, in relation to the system startup time bars.
Fix: The Clean and SpeedUp My Computer does not always find specific types of registry errors.
Fix: If you leave the software open for a long time (e.g. over night), it will display an Out Of Memory error. This was simply one of the debug log features writing something down every few minutes, and when run for a long time, it will end up using too much memory.
Fix: The Software Uninstaller can display duplicate lines.
Fix: The software can display an Access Violation error relating to TTranslator.FlushCache.
Improvement: The software now ships with translations: English, Chinese, French, German, Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Russian, Spanish and Swedish.
Improvement: The software works now much faster and uses less memory.
Improvement: Major improvements to the way the user interface is drawn and updated to give a smoother user experience.
Improvement: Removed 95% of all the debug code that was included with the previous versions, this makes the software run faster and smoother.
Improvement: The CSMC can better detect to which software a specific registry error is relating to.
Improvement: Greatly improved CSMC's accuracy and performance in regards of finding temporary files that can be cleaned.
Improvement: The Software Uninstaller can detect the installed software with greater accuracy.
Improvement: The software will from now on ask whether you wish to reboot your computer again, only when the software has just started, not after you retur to the Home Screen from using another tool.
Improvement: The way the Main Window and especially the Home Screen are updated is now a lot smoother.
Improvement: Enhanced the Clean And Fix My Computer's ability to find certain types of registry errors.
Improvement: Improved the algorithm that groups different found temporary files to categories for better readability.
Improvement: The Software Uninstaller will from now on display an additional confirmation message in case user attempts to uninstall an important system software, such as Internet Explorer.
Improvement: If the software detects any anti-virus or anti-malware products, it will from now on display a stronger recommendation to add jv16 PowerTools' core files to the exclusion list of these products.
Improvement: In the case critical files needed by jv16 PowerTools are missing, the software will from now on display a warning to the user asking the user to reinstall the software. Before, this would have lead to the software not working properly.

New in jv16 PowerTools 2017 4.1.0.1588 RC2 (Aug 3, 2016)

Fix: The software can display an Integer overflow error message.
Fix: The software can display an Access violation at address 004081F4 in module 'jv16PT.exe'. Read of address 410A0D68.
Fix: Few typos fixed from the Windows AntiSpy.
Fix: Running the Clean And SpeedUp My Computer can show error message Access violation at address 004081F4 in module 'jv16PT.exe'. Read of address 0000001C.
Fix: The buttons of File Tool show incorrect tool tip texts.
Fix: The system startup time bars in the Main Window are not updated if the window is resized horizontally.
Fix: The Software Uninstaller can incorrectly detect leftover traces of software that have never been installed to the system.
Fix: The software's main executable (jv16pt.exe) can remain in the memory after the software has been closed.
Fix: The software can display an error message about "ntdll.dll" after the Initial Setup closes.
Fix: The software can fail to restart after it says the software is going to restart.
Fix: Initial Setup window's texts are not evenly aligned.
Fix: The Home View can display multiple jv16 PowerTools Last Used bars one after another.
Fix: Scrolling with the mouse wheel does not work in the Settings window.
Fix: The software can sometimes incorrectly show error message "It seems that some software is blocking jv16 PowerTools from adding an automatically starting software. " - Notice: this error message can still be shown, if it is shown, it's a real issue and should be fixed.
Fix: The File Cleaner can report it has completed the analysis of the same directories more than once.
Fix: You cannot clear the list of addresses ignored by the Immunize My Computer (if you clear them, the default list is back the next time you use the tool).
Fix: The Home View doesn't always fully show the About jv16 PowerTools section.
Fix: User interface of Clean And SpeedUp My Computer may have cosmetic issues when used in the Classic User Interface mode (disabled by default).
Fix: Running the Clean and SpeedUp My Computer with the Check for vulnerable software option does not always update the Main Window.
Improvement: Renamed PreWorker1.exe and PreWorker2.exe to jv16pt_PreWorker1.exe and jv16pt_PreWorker2.exe to make it clear these files are relating to jv16 PowerTools.
Improvement: Added the button for Easy Mass File Renamer to the File Tool's button bar.
Improvement: Added a notice about the Classic User Interface not being recommended to the Settings window.
Improvement: Added a notice about some of the list option features being deprecated.
Improvement: When jv16 PowerTools asks you to restart your computer in order to track its startup times, it will now automatically start after the computer has been restarted.

New in jv16 PowerTools 2017 4.1.0.1574 RC1 (Jul 21, 2016)

Fix: The program can show message Access violation at address 0097A393 Read of address 00000048.
Fix: The program can show message Access violation at address A17317A5 Read of address A17317A5.
Fix: The program can show message Access violation at address 0082ED94 Read of address 00000059.
Fix: The program can show message Access violation at address 0068DB44 Read of address 00000026.
Fix: Running the Clean And SpeedUp My Computer can show message Internal error: SafetyNet-CREBR-2B
Fix: Clean And SpeedUp My Computer can list registry errors relating to leftover software named "zip".
Fix: After closing jv16 PowerTools by clicking the X icon at the top right corner of its window, the software can still remaing in the memory for a period of time (jv16pt.exe visible on Task Manager).
Fix: Recommended actions icons of the Home View are not fully visible on certain window sizes.
Fix: Clicking the Support icon on Main Window opens the Forum and vice versa.
Fix: Clicking the Next and Back buttons of the Tutorial window causes some elements of the window to be incorrectly positioned.
Fix: The UI can sometimes show a file reference such as "C:Program FilesSoftwareapp.ex" while it obviously is referring to "app.exe".
Fix: If user disables the setting for Performance Tweaks in Clean And SpeedUp My Computer, it is not always saved (defaults back to enabled).
Fix: Clicking Startup Timer's Clear all but 10 last startup times button will cause the program to show Access violation message.
Fix: Clean And SpeedUp My Computer can in some systems get stuck and never finish its scan.
Fix: The startup time bars are displayed in the reversed order in the Home View.
Fix: The Main Window's Tools menu can sometimes show elements in wrong order.
Fix: After user enables the Startup Optimizer, the Main Window can still say the Startup Optimizer is disabled (user interface not updated properly).
Improvement: Enhanced the user experience of the Tutorial window.
Improvement: Added an option to delete the setup file if one is found from the Windows Desktop.
Improvement: Added an option to automatically restart the computer after the Initial Setup has completed.
Improvement: Simplified the available recommendations of tools that should be run in the Home View when the Simple UI mode is active.
Improvement: Included the final version of the new generation registry cleaner engine for Clean And SpeedUp My Computer.
Improvement: Included the new Check For Vulnerable Software tool.
Improvement: The default backup description now contains the current date in an easy to read format (albeit the date of the backup is also always shown by the Backup Tool as well).
Improvement: Added option to install the software with default settings, skipping the tutorial phase.
Improvement: If you select the TEST ENGLISH mode, the Tutorial window will show a message to explain its purpose to you.
Improvement: The software will automatically restart after a license has been applied. Before, user was asked to restart and if no restart was made, the new license was not always applied to the user interface correctly.

New in jv16 PowerTools 2016 4.1.0.1557 Beta 4 (Apr 24, 2016)

Bug fix: Using the Open In RegEdit feature causes the program to hang (freeze).
Bug fix: The program can show Access violation at address 00958C48.
Bug fix: In most aggressive setting, the Clean And Fix My Computer can display some registry errors with a description text of Internal error 091.
Bug fix: The software can display an error message Access violation at address 006AAB1B.
Bug fix: The software can display an error message Access violation at address 0088DD00.
Bug fix: The software can display an error message Access violation at address 005EB48A.
Bug fix: The software can display an error message Access violation at address 005EB0AA.
Bug fix: In some systems, mainly with Windows 10, jv16 PowerTools is not listed in Control Panel’s list of installed software.
Bug fix: When certain tools, for example the Software Uninstaller, is opened many times consecutively, the “Please wait” panel’s size gets few pixels bigger each time.
Bug fix: If you attempt to open Startup Optimizer before restarting your computer, you are shown an error message twice.
Bug fix: The Clean And SpeedUp My Computer can list same registry errors to be fixed again and again, even if you just fixed them.
Improvement: Enhanced the accuracy of the new registry cleaning engine.
Improvement: Improved the accuracy of error descriptions of Clean And SpeedUp My Computer.
Improvement: This version resets the trial period. If you have already ran out or running low of the 60 day trial of PowerTools Beta2 or Beta3, this build will allow you to start a new trial period of up to 60 days.
Improvement: The software will now show a detailed error message in case a third party software blocks jv16 PowerTools from fully accessing your system, for example, if some software blocks it from modifying the registry’s Run key (which is required for the Startup Timer and Startup Timer features to work).
Improvement: Added options to disable the home view of the main window, either entirely or some parts – such as hide the system health, privacy or startup times views.
Improvement: Added shortcuts for Settings, Forum and Technical Support to the Main Window.
Improvement: If an antivirus product is detected, jv16 PowerTools will now recommend whitelisting PreWorker1.exe and PreWorker2.exe as well as the software’s main executable (jv16PT.exe).
Improvement: The software will from now one check that its modifications to the registry’s automatically starting software area are not blocked by any third party software such as antivirus software or software designed to protect the automatically starting software registry keys. If such software is used and jv16 PowerTools’ access to the registry is limited, it can cause some features of PowerTools not to work properly. If such issue is detected by the software, the user is warned about this and asked to solve the problem.

New in jv16 PowerTools X 4.0.0.1517 (Apr 24, 2016)

New in jv16 PowerTools 2016 4.1.0.1555 Beta 3 (Apr 5, 2016)

Added feature: Windows AntiSpy’s performance tweaks added to Clean And SpeedUp My Computer.
Added feature: Startup Details view allows you to see what processes started automatically with Windows at any specific time and how big impact they had on system’s startup.
Fix: Startup Optimizer can make some software to not automatically start at all.
Fix: The software can show an error message about EFOpenError – Cannot Open File.
Fix: The software can show an error message about EFCreateError – Cannot Create File.
Fix: While in the Home Screen, the program can display an error List Index Out Of Bounds.
Fix: Clean And SpeedUp My Computer can display an error relating to .AddToSelection()
Fix: The software (the previous beta versions) can leave behind data after uninstalled.
Fix: The tooltip can sometimes be displayed partially outside of the screen, making it impossible to read.
Fix: The Startup Optimizer shows empty data fields if you open it after installing jv16 PowerTools without restarting the computer.
Fix: Sometimes the software could save files directly to its installation directory, instead using the proper sub-directory.
Fix: Clean And SpeedUp My Computer can display an error Failed to access “C:\\PT_PreStartupRegDelete.dat”!
Fix: Main window’s Tools menu contains the tools in incorrect categories.
Fix: Some texts of the Home view are shown with incorrect font.
Fix: Open in RegEdit feature doesn’t always open the RegEdit with the correct key opened.
Fix: Open in RegEdit feature in Registry Finder doesn’t always work (nothing happens).
Fix: Picture AntiSpy’s progress bar while cleaning data is not always properly centered.
Fix: Closing Pictures AntiSpy’s results window brings up the AntiSpy’s configuration screen, instead of the main window.
Fix: The home screen sometimes automatically scrolls up.
Fix: Startup Manager’s top bar could show data when no startup software was selected from the list.
Fix: The software can show an access violation error message relating to address 006A9CC4
Fix: The software can show an access violation error message relating to address 006ABCCA
Fix: Settings tool’s Integration with Windows lists some items are not working (no shortcuts created).
Fix: Pictures AntiSpy allows user to list other than picture files with the Add Files and Add Directories features.
Fix: Aborting a Software Uninstaller’s scan of installed software can make the software to show an Access Violation error.
Improvement: Added a system’s Privacy health gauge to the Home screen.
Improvement: Added an option to start the program directly to the Main Tools instead of the Home screen.
Improvement: The Home screen now shows when it is performing an update to the health gauges in the background.
Improvement: Enhanced the performance and accuracy of the registry cleaner engine (Clean and SpeedUp My Computer)
Improvement: Enhanced the accuracy of the Software Uninstaller.
Improvement: Software Uninstaller’s ability to find installed software and especially left over traces of software has been greatly improved.
Improvement: The software now detects more anti-virus products and shows a hint asking the user to whitelist jv16 PowerTools in case of any problems
Improvement: The software now supports command line parameters starting with the / character instead of only the – character. In other words, you can now launch the program directly to Clean And SpeedUp My Computer with command line jv16PT.exe /CSMC as well as the old method of jv16PT.exe -CSMC
Improvement: The software no longer saves the debug log to the Desktop, instead, all debug data is saved under the \Backups directory (By default to: C:\Program Files (x86)\jv16 PowerTools 2016 Beta3\Backups)
Improvement: In case you install the software to a directory with an added name element, that element is displayed on the software’s window captions. For example, if you install it to C:\Program Files (x86)\jv16 PowerTools 2016 Beta3 build1555\, the software’s window captions will also include the text “build 1999” from the installation path. This will be handy if you are testing multiple copies of the software at the same time from different installation directories.
Improvement: The “This version is a beta version” message dialog is no longer displayed if user is using the software in a virtual machine environment.
Improvement: Registry Compactor is available for testing.
Improvement: Startup Optimizer no longer modifies startup entries relating to VirtualBox or VMware virtualization software.
Improvement: Clean and SpeedUp My Computer’s ability to detect invalid shortcuts from the Start Menu and Desktop has been improved.
Improvement: Major improvements to Startup Optimizer’s user interface.
Improvement: You can no longer start more than one identical instance of the software at the same time.
Improvement: Added option to open a software’s main registry key in RegEdit to the Right-Click menu of Software Uninstaller.
Improvement: The software’s version number is now more visible in the About screen.
Improvement: You can now click the startup time bars in the Home screen for detailed information of the specific system startup.
Improvement: You can click the critical elements of the Home screen, such as Startup Optimizer: Disabled, to see the option how to enable the feature.
Improvement: The Pictures AntiSpy now ignores the sample image files that ship with Windows.
Improvement: Increased the accuracy and safety of the registry cleaner engine in Clean And SpeedUp My Computer.
Improvement: Improved compatibility with Windows 10, especially with Windows 10 installed to laptop computers.
Improvement: Updated the URL for technical support to point to our new Help Desk.
Improvement: Added a progress panel for adding data to Pictures AntiSpy (custom scan).

New in jv16 PowerTools X 4.0.0.1513 (Apr 5, 2016)

New in jv16 PowerTools X 4.0.0.1506 (Mar 4, 2016)

New in jv16 PowerTools 2016 4.1.0.1539 Beta 2 (Feb 19, 2016)

Bug fix: The startup times are not recorded on many systems (such as Windows 10).
Bug fix: The Computer Health and Registry Integrity values are not updated after cleaning the computer.
Bug fix: The Registry Health value is not calculated correctly (it was not properly calibrated in the Beta1).
Bug fix: The program can crash with error message Access Violation when run for the first time.
Bug fix: The program can crash with error message Operation not allowed on sorted list.
Bug fix: The warning and tip boxes can be displayed with the text not fully visible.
Bug fix: In Settings > Integration with Windows, there are some duplicate items.
Bug fix: The program doesn't detect all running anti-virus products (in order to display a hint relating to resident anti-virus products possibly interfering with the operation of jv16 PowerTools).
Bug fix: The program can show an Access Violation error message relating to TSvcMgr.GetConfig.
Bug fix: The program can show an Access Violation error message relating to TRegistryDataAnalyzer.ExtractFilenamesExLEO.
Bug fix: The red icons on buttons in the Startup Optimizer do not turn to green after clicked.
Bug fix: The Clean And SpeedUp My Computer can show error Internal Error: SafetyNet-CRKBR-1B "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\sdksubscription.CompanyFileEventSubsc.1\" - this is an incorrect trigger of the Safety Net feature, the specific key can be safely removed (if the software lists it as invalid).
Bug fix: It is possible to click the Start button in Registry Monitor's Create New Snapshot window while a new snapshot is already being created.
Bug fix: File Split tool can crash with error message of Range check error.
Bug fix: Startup Optimizer's Optimize / Do Not Optimize button can display Please Select At Least One Item error message even if items are selected.
Bug fix: The software's own uninstaller does not remove all the registry entries created by jv16 PowerTools during installation.
Bug fix: In case of excellent system health scores, the home screen can display an empty Recommended Actions list.
Bug fix: Clicking Re-Calculate Health Scores and then choosing the comparison feature makes it impossible to close the comparison (the Close Comparison button does not show up).
Bug fix: Measuring the system health leaves behind backup files relating to the registry compact process.
Bug fix: The program sometimes resets its main window size and resets it to smaller, especially if window is maximized.
Bug fix: Startup times listing in the home screen can contain duplicate results.
Bug fix: The Startup Timer's user interface doesn't always show up properly (items that shouldn't be visible are visible and vice versa)
Bug fix: Clicking the Compare Health Score Against drop box without actually changing the selection causes the screen to flicker.
Bug fix: The program can show a big empty white area at the bottom of the main program window.
Bug fix: The startup times are listed in the home screen in an illogical order.
Bug fix: Software can still remain licensed after using the Reset All License Information button.
Bug fix: The home screen can recommend user to enable the Startup Optimizer, even if the Startup Optimizer is already enabled.
Bug fix: When a tooltip shows up for the first time, it is sometimes displayed empty without any text.
Bug fix: Even with Pictures AntiSpy never used, it could report picture files being skipped because they had already been processed.
Improvement: The Software Uninstaller now generates a debug log also from the process of uninstalling of software. If uninstalling software crashes in your system, please send us the contents of your /Backups directory and we will be able to better debug the problem.
Improvement: The Software Uninstaller's ability to detect installed software has been improved based on user feedback.
Improvement: A copy of all generated debug log files is now also saved under \Backups.
Improvement: The software now generates more detailed debug log files.
Improvement: If the software detects a valid license during installation, it no longer shows the prompt to ask user to join Macecraft's newsletter.
Improvement: Clicking the Re-Calculate Health Scores button in home screen now displays a better message and shows a progress animation.
Improvement: PreWorker.exe now uses less system resources including cpu at system startup.
Improvement: Added an option to the Maintenance tool to clear all stored system health data.
Improvement: In the home screen, the automatically generated old health data text descriptions are now better.
Improvement: When comparing system health data to old ones in the home screen, the system startup times are now hidden, as they do not relate to the system health data comparison.
Improvement: Many updates to the home screen's user interface.
Improvement: If user hits Ctrl + Enter in the Tutorial screen, the tutorial will be skipped (default settings will be applied) and query about reboot will be skipped at the end of the Initial Setup - the computer will reboot without a query. The Ctrl + Enter option was created to ease testing the software with less user input.

New in jv16 PowerTools 2016 4.1.0.1521 Beta 1 (Jan 18, 2016)

New feature: Home screen feature in the main window shows you a summary of your computer's health and performance, with shortcuts to the relevant tools to repair any detected issues. The home screen also allows you to see the progress of how these numbers changes over time, such as after using jv16 PowerTools.
New tool: Startup Timer measures the time your computer takes to start up. It also measures the impact of all your automatically starting software have to the system startup to allow you to see exactly what is making your computer start slowly.
New tool: Pictures AntiSpy allows you to remove privacy threatening metadata from your picture files. The feature can be used manually or it can be set run automatically.
New tool: Windows AntiSpy allows you to disable the privacy threatening features of Windows. NOTE: Not yet available for testing in this beta version.
New tool: Easy Mass File Renamer offers an easier way to rename many files at the same time. The previous Mass File Renamer tool is still available for more advanced and customized mass file renaming operations.
Improvement: The System Health measurement has been completely updated to give you a more exact and detailed rating of your computer's health. Furthermore, it is now ran as a background process, meaning you no longer have to wait for it to complete. It runs periodically on the background without using much if any system resources.
Improvement: Fully redesigned user interface for easier user experience and the new user interface also works better with different screen sizes.
Improvement: Fully rebuilt Startup Optimizer allows you to easily speed up the Windows startup without removing any software. The new Startup Optimizer supports disabling the optimization per individual software and its implementation no longer requires the use of multiple starting processes.
Improvement: Clean and Fix My Computer has been renamed to Clean and Speedup My Computer and the tool contains dozens of improvements to allow a safer and more optimized user experience.
Improvement: Major improvements in the Startup Manager. For example, it now can show the impact each automatically starting software has to the system's startup speed. This impact measurement is collected in real-time while the system starts by the Startup Timer and it offers greater detail compared to Windows 10's Startup Manager's "Impact to startup" rating. The Startup Manager can now also show detailed data of the resource usage at startup time per starting software, for example, you will be able to see how much system memory each starting software used during startup.
Improvement: Major improvements in the Software Uninstaller for more accurate listing of installed software, as well as improved software uninstallation ability.
Improvement: The Initial Setup of the software now needs to be run only one time - instead of once every 15 days of the previous versions - and it also takes less time to run.
Plus, hundreds of smaller improvements and bug fixes. NOTE: Not all improvements and fixes are yet included to this beta version, they are still under internal testing and will be included later.

New in jv16 PowerTools 2014 3.2.0.1354 (Nov 9, 2013)

New in jv16 PowerTools 2014 3.1.0.1316 RC2 (Aug 27, 2013)

New in jv16 PowerTools 2013 3.00.1267 (Apr 29, 2013)

New in jv16 PowerTools 2013 3.00.1258 (Apr 11, 2013)

It’s sleek. It’s fast. And it’s finally here – the new jv16 PowerTools 2013 contains awesome performance and user interface improvements to offer its ever expanding user base an elevated level of Windows performance, security and control. Having been in the market for more than ten years, the popularity of jv16 PowerTools continues to create impact as it enhances usability of your Windows personal computer by making it faster and operate smoothly.
Amazing performance:
“Had we made jv16 PowerTools 2013 any faster, we would have broken the sound barrier”, said Jouni Flemming, the lead developer with Macecraft.
The 2013 edition also comes with the new Decrap my Computer tool. “The new Decrap my Computer was designed for uninstalling many software at the same time, without any need for the user to do anything. It’s especially targeted for people with a brand new computer, full of pre-installed bloatware – and hence the name Decrap my Computer!” The tool’s technology is also used in the improved Software Uninstaller tool which can now perform unattended software uninstallations and uninstall many software at the same time.
The main changes compared to jv16 PowerTools 2012 are:
New tool: Decrap my Computer. This tool allows you to perform an automated mass uninstallation of all the (selected) third party software from your computer. One way to use this tool is to uninstall and remove all the bloatware software that ship with brand new computers nowadays.
New, 7th generation registry cleaning engine which combines amazing performance with unbeaten safety and accuracy. See how the jv16 PowerTools 2013′s Registry Cleaner compares against the 2012 edition on Youtube. Or the Clean and Fix My Computer.
New software uninstallation engine that is faster, more accurate and supports the uninstallation of many software at the same time. The engine can execute the uninstaller of the given software, automatically click its buttons to select the uninstallation options and after it has finished, the jv16 PowerTools uses its custom uninstallation engine to double check the software’s own uninstaller didn’t miss anything.
Performance boosted Duplicate File Finder which is up to 70% faster than before. See how the jv16 PowerTools 2013′s Duplicate File Finder compares against the 2012 edition on Youtube.
Automatic user interface mode selection. The Quick Tutorial will now guess based on the software installed to your computer whether you are an “advanced” or “normal” user; this guess is then used as the default setting in the Quick Tutorial window. Before, the default mode was always normal and everyone who wanted to use the advanced user interface with all the possible features and options available still had to check on that.
Improved performance of the Registry Compactor that now fully supports the new Windows 8 operating system.
The translation files are now downloaded automatically from our server when the program is installed, this ensures you will always get the latest version of the translation file you wish to use.
Major performance improvements and fixes to the entire product.

New in jv16 PowerTools 2013 3.0.0.1248 RC1 (Mar 20, 2013)

New in jv16 PowerTools 2013 3.0.0.1245 Beta 6 (Feb 15, 2013)

New in jv16 PowerTools 2013 3.0.0.1242 Beta 5 (Feb 11, 2013)

Bug fix: The program doesn't remember if you resized its windows, instead the windows always open in their default size.
Bug fix: The Debug Tool's report doesn't mention Windows 8, only the older Windows versions are included.
Bug fix: Registry Cleaner and the Clean and Fix My Computer could remove the license information of Thumbsplus Pro V9 (because the data is stored in the registry in a format of a registry error)
Bug fix: Unit Testing tool can crash to Access Violation in relation to the TDuplicateAnalyzer component.
Bug fix: Decrap My Computer can show a partial Software Installed list if the operation is aborted during the software scan.
Bug fix: Decrap My Computer always shows a partial Software Installed list if the operation is aborted during the first software scan.
Bug fix: Debug Log doesn't always contain all the debug data (e.g. the System Info section) if the program is started with a command line parameter.
Bug fix: The Grouping tab of the File Finder always shows the Modified icon.
Bug fix: Some settings, such as the Ignore Words, are not remembered by the program after the tool window is closed.
Bug fix: History Cleaner can reference any version of Microsoft Office as "Office 2003".
Bug fix: Main Window's Tools > Add shortcut to desktop menu contains an empty line after the Immunize My Computer item.
Bug fix: Decrap my Computer doesn't show up in the Action History.
Bug fix: The More Functions menu of the Directory Tool is not displaying correctly.
Bug fix: File Analyzer starts with incorrect window size for the first time, next times the window size is correct.
Bug fix: The screen does not update if scrolling the second or third list of the Speed up my Computer by dragging the scroll bar, it only works with the first list.
Bug fix: Running the Registry Cleaner many times in a row causes the Scan Report window to be displayed with incorrect size (too big).
Bug fix: Software Uninstaller (and Decrap my Computer) doesn't list all the installed software.
Bug fix: Starting Software Uninstaller many times in a row causes a slightly different number of software being found each time.
Bug fix: The program's uninstallation data was created to the registry under key \Uninstall\jv16 PowerTools 2011 (should be: \Uninstall\jv16 PowerTools 2013)
Improvement: The entire GUI should now be translated, to verify this, the build comes with the X-English translation.
Improvement: Added a new registry cleaner engine setting under the Mode tab of the Registry Cleaner window.
Improvement: It's no longer possible to start multiple instances of the program. Doing this could cause different problems for example the Settings file being written and read by the different instances at different times.
Improvement: History Cleaner no longer lists IIS log files.
Improvement: Removed the Tags column from the Action History.
Improvement: The program now starts a little bit faster.
Improvement: Clicking the same translation file in the Quick Tutorial no longer displays its message many times in a row.
Improvement: Further increased the safety of the registry cleaner engine when run with the safest scan option.
Improvement: Initial Setup will be automatically run every 20 days to ensure the performance of the program not going down due to too old cache files.
Improvement: Reduced the amount of memory (RAM) used by the registry cleaner engine.
Improvement: The Main Window now better supports translations with longer toolnames.
Improvement: The Debug Log is now named based on the beta release number of the product, so instead "jv16PT_debuglog.html", it will be for example "jv16PT_debuglog_B5.html" to specify the log was created by the Beta 5 version.

New in jv16 PowerTools 2013 Beta 4 (Feb 11, 2013)

New in jv16 PowerTools 2013 Beta 3 (Feb 11, 2013)

Bug fix: The Registry Compactor still says "jv16 PowerTools 2012"
Bug fix: There is no "List Control" option in the Right-Click menus of the Decrap my Computer
Bug fix: Using the "Never show again" Right-Click feature of any tool can cause the tool not listing any items in future runs.
Bug fix: In the Software Uninstaller, checking for "more information online" looks up the author, rather than the software.
Bug fix: Buttons of the Start Menu Tool are not clickable.
Bug fix: The Decrap my Computer can get stuck to the "Finalizing the restore point" stage.
Bug fix: Clicking the top panel with more information of the currently selected line clears the panel from text.
Bug fix: The Backup Tool can take way too long to load its list.
Bug fix: Running the Initial Setup multiple times causes the Backup directory to fill with System Recovery backups.
Bug fix: The Registry Cleaner can, in some cases, list valid registry entries under \SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run key as "Obsolete software entry"
Bug fix: It's possible to go forward in Decrap my Computer with no software selected for removal.
Bug fix: The version and system information panel at the bottom of the Main Window can sometimes overlap with the message box.
Bug fix: Unit Testing Tool can crash to Stack Overflow.
Bug fix: Unit Testing Tool shows numerous errors relating to "TestRDA".
Bug fix: The Debug Log doesn't contain all the possible BugReport.txt or Profile*.txt files, only those who exist at the time PowerTools was started is being included.
Bug fix: The Tools > Maintenance Tool > Reset Statistics feature isn't working properly.
Improvement: Major performance improvements to the data listing component, it should now be faster and less flickering.
Improvement: Improved the safety of the registry cleaner engine.
Improvement: The Registry Cleaner no longer lists certain registry data that cannot be modified.
Improvement: Enabled some more new tweaks of the new registry cleaner engine to give it even better performance. The new engine is now using about 70% of its full potential, the final tweaks are still under development so you can still expect more speed with the next beta versions and the final version.
Improvement: The Decrap my Computer now lists drivers and other most likely important software in a separate group which is unselected by default.
Improvement: The Decrap my Computer attempts to guess whether you are running it on a brand new, out-of-the-box Windows PC, or an older one. If you are running it on a new PC, only then Decrap my Computer will by default select all items by default (except for the drivers category items). In other case, nothing is selected by default.
Improvement: You can now close the Decrap my Computer by clicking the Back button.
Improvement: Changed the Automation Tasks from the File tab to the Others tab.
Improvement: Disabled the Custom restore/Edit backup option for the File tab items of the Backup tool.
Improvement: The Profile*.txt files now contain even more valuable information to further improve the performance of the product.
Improvement: Added option "All" to the File Tool > Columns > Date menu.

New in jv16 PowerTools 2013 Beta 2 (Feb 11, 2013)

Bug fix: Right click -> "Control Hidden Items" does not do anything on any of the tools.
Bug fix: Clicking "Download my license ..." in the License Tool doesn't change the button's red icon to green.
Bug fix: The program doesn't accept Platinum VIP licenses.
Bug fix: The Debug menu of the Main Window doesn't always show the Save Debug Log option.
Bug fix: The icon of the Abort button in the Backup tool doesn't change from red to green when clicked.
Bug fix: The program fails to properly set the Snapshots directory which could cause the Registry Monitor to crash when attempting to create a snapshot.
Bug fix: The Debug Log can fail to write certain lines to the log file.
Bug fix: In the Software Uninstaller, checking for "more information online" looks up the author, rather than the software.
Bug fix: The Decrap my Computer can execute the "Do you want to shut down Windows?" dialog in non-English systems.
Bug fix: Clicking the "Change Settings" buttons of the System Cleaner's Delete files tab causes the PowerTools' processor usage to spike up even when the program is not doing anything.
Bug fix: If you use the Maintenance Tool > Flush Caches option but answer "No" to the "Are you sure?" query, you will not be asked again and the caches are not cleared, no matter how many time you click the button again.
Bug fix: Clicking the Help > License Tool > Install New License only disables some of the window's buttons while the operation is running, not all.
Bug fix: Decrap my Computer falsely states that the System Restore has been disabled in the system, even if the feature has not been disabled.
Bug fix: The Backup tool can take seconds to open.
Improvement: The items of the Automatically starting software group now show more information in their tooltips in the Decrap my Computer tool.
Improvement: Removed the Tag column from the Debug Log window.
Improvement: The Debug Log will from now on automatically contain all the available BugReport.txt contents as well as any found performance profile files (Profile*.txt) from the program's installation directory. This improvement makes the program start up slower (about 1 second delay in my test setups) but this delay will only present with the Beta versions, not the final product version(s).
Improvement: Made new safe guards to the Initial Setup in order to improve its stability and added debug code to it in an attempt to find the cause for the Access Violation that some users reported with the Beta1. If it still occurs, please send over the Debug Log!
Improvement: This build comes with the PowerTools 2013 handbook, which is not yet final, however.

New in jv16 PowerTools 2013 Beta 1 (Feb 11, 2013)

New in jv16 PowerTools 2012 2.1.0.1173 (May 18, 2012)

Bug fix: The program can show an error "data.xbin corrupted" when starting.
Bug fix: Registry Compactor can show an internal error while doing the second phase of compact.
Bug fix: History Cleaner can report "failed to access" error when run in non-English version of Windows.
Bug fix: Running the Registry Cleaner (or Clean and Fix My Computer) can cause the list of accounts to disapear from Windows 7 login screen. The problem can be solved by restoring the backup created by PowerTools.
Bug fix: Removing specific kinds of data with the Registry Cleaner or any other registry tool of PowerTools can cause the program to crash to Access Violation at address 006C13A4.
Bug fix: Program can show "The application seems to be frozen." error message while running the Registry Cleaner (or Clean and Fix My Computer) with specific data in the registry.
Bug fix: Creating a desktop shortcut for specific tools might not work correctly.
Bug fix: Backup tool can show a backup in the wrong section, for example a File Cleaner backup under the Registry Backups tab.
Bug fix: Some tools, such as Mass Rename Files and Remove Files on Reboot had too little space for translated button captions.
Bug fix: The program can ask permission to check for new immunization data twice in a row.
Bug fix: The Action History menu item in the main window´s File menu does not work.
Bug fix: Cannot translate the Delete item in context menu in the Mass rename tool.
Bug fix: Cannot translate the "Tag" item in the Startup Manager.
Bug fix: The program can crash to Access Violation after closing the History Cleaner.
Bug fix: The captions of the following tools cannot be translated: File tool, Immunize my Computer and Directory tool.
Bug fix: System Optimizer can in some systems show up as a blank window without any content.
Bug fix: The desktop shortcut for each of the tools has the jv16pt.exe icon, not the icon of the specific tool.
Bug fix: History Cleaner backups are displayed in the wrong tab in the Backup tool (they should be displayed under Other backups)
Bug fix: Hungarian translation is always installed, yet it doesn´t show in the Setup´s list of available translations.
Bug fix: Some tool windows, for example the Settings window, do not show the currently active tab selection rectange.
Bug fix: The user interface of the Registry Cleaner (and Clean and Fix My Computer) can get confused with 64 bit registry data and this causes the Open in RegEdit feature to sometimes open an incorrect key.
Bug fix: Uninstalling PowerTools can leave the "Buy jv16 PowerTools" shortcut to desktop.
Bug fix: Uninstalling PowerTools can leave PowerTools´ tool shortcuts to desktop. These can be created from the main window´s Tools > Add shortcut to desktop... menu.
Bug fix: Settings Integration with Windows feature doesn´t work properly.
Bug fix: Fixed a few typos from the English user interface (English.lng).
Bug fix: Immunize my Computer can ask the permission to connect the Internet two or three times in a row.
Bug fix: It´s not possible to translate certain texts of the File Encryption feature by editing the English.lng
Bug fix: Decrypting a file can crash the program to Cannot focus a disabled or invisible window error message.
Improvement: Added a command line switch "-Immunize" to start the Immunize My Computer tool.
Improvement: Made the "Undo Immunization" feature easier to find from the Tools menu of the Backup tool.
Improvement: Added a recommendation for the user to restart the program after disabling or enabling the Tag System, as its settings are not updated on-the-fly to already opened tools.
Improvement: Made the GUI of the program more responsive.
Improvement: All the found items are now automatically checked when uninstalling a software with the Software Uninstaller.
Improvement: Updated most of the user interface icons.
Improvement: Added Settings, Backups and Action History to Main Window > Tools > Add shortcut to Desktop.
Note: The implementation of Settings > Integration with Windows has been changed.

New in jv16 PowerTools 2012 2.1.0.1081 Beta 3 (Feb 2, 2012)

Bug fix: SetAppID.exe can show an error message or crash after jv16 PowerTools has been installed.
Bug fix: Backup Tool: The Abort button of all three icons does nothing. Also, it stays red after clicked.
Bug fix: Immunization tool doesn't show the number of lines to be added correctly.
Bug fix: Tip in the Anti-Malware´s window should be moved down and it should be changed to plural ("... directories to these boxes.").
Bug fix: Go to main window ->settings -> 'Integration with windows' -> Icons in Jump/start menu -> check item -> click OK. After the "specified path not found" application error the application can now be 'continued', 'restarted' or 'closed'. However the checked 'icon item' is now unchecked and that item is not added to the Jump/Start menu.
Bug fix: Open the Immunization feature and then closing it. Upon reopening the Immunization feature it generates an repeatable Access Violation error.
Bug fix: Go to main window ->'settings' -> 'Integration with windows' -> 'Icons in Jump/start menu' -> check the 'Backup' item -> click Ok. Only after the sequence close+start+close of jv16PT the Clean and fix my Computer icon shows up in the Jump/Start menu. Clicking on this CFMC icon however starts the jv16PT Backup function!
Bug fix: File Recovery: all the boxes (rectangles) must contain some numbers or text, even with "Look only for files of specific size" disabled, if not you get the warning I mentioned in my original post and the tool does not work.
Bug fix: Action History does not show adding a new startup item in the Startup Manager.
Bug fix: The Immunization tool can add duplicate items to the hosts file if the hosts file already contains data.
Bug fix: The Registry Finder (and Registry Find and Replace) does not always find data which is stored in the default value of a registry key.
Improvement: It's now possible to tell the Immunization tool to not to block certain websites, like Google ads.
Improvement: You can no setup the program to run the Immunization tool automatically every time PowerTools starts.
Improvement: The Registry Cleaner should now find a few more errors, due to a bug fix inside the engine.

New in jv16 PowerTools 2011 2.0.0.1053 (Aug 1, 2011)

New in jv16 PowerTools 2011 2.0.0.1043 (Jul 18, 2011)

Bug fix: Open in RegEdit feature does not open in some non-English versions of Windows.
Bug fix: Clean and Fix My Computer can crash if used with the Tag feature disabled.
Bug fix: The files ...\Cache\ProgramDirs.dat and ...\Cache\SearchDirs.dat can contain empty lines.
Bug fix: If you change a backup's description in the Backup Tool the change shows in the list immediately. However, if you close the tool and start it again in the same session, the change no longer shows. It will show in a new session.
Bug: The tooltips of Main Window's health gauges are not correct.
Bug: The program can display items of certain Anti-Virus products even if the option to ignore all data relating to Anti-Virus products has been selected under Additional Safety tab.
Bug fix: The program can access the floppy disk drive while performing the registry scan.
Bug fix: The main window's health gauges are not always correctly updated after an operation such as a registry cleanup.
Bug fix: It's not always possible to start the File Recovery tool using the Search by size feature.
Bug fix: The program can crash or freeze while fixing certain types of registry errors.
Bug fix: File Finder's Find By Content feature doesn't always work properly.
Bug fix: The Tag column doesn't always show, even if the option to use Tags has been selected from the Settings window.
Bug fix: Aborting a Custom Uninstall Software operation can crash the program to Access Violation.
Bug fix: Startin the program as the registered, full version, doesn't always delete the created Buy jv16 PowerTools web link from the desktop.
Improvement: The program will automatically search for a license during the Initial Setup.
Improvement: Improved the startup time of the program.
Improvement: Improved the program's ability to find temp files.
Improvement: Main window's Help menu no longer shows the Report Bug feature if you are running a beta level software. For beta level software, you should use the Report Bug feature under the Main window's Debug menu.
Improvement: The program's debug features such as the generation of the Debug Log has been greatly improved.

New in jv16 PowerTools 2011 2.0.0.1009 (Mar 30, 2011)

New in jv16 PowerTools 2011 2.0.0.1007 (Feb 18, 2011)

New in jv16 PowerTools 2011 2.0.0.1000 Beta 6 (Feb 10, 2011)

New in jv16 PowerTools 2010 2.0.0.986 (Nov 25, 2010)

Bug fix: If you start the Clean and Fix My Computer using a command line paramter or a desktop icon, its Search Words box could contain "memSearchWords"
Bug fix: The Explore function under the More Functions menu of the Directory tool works on the first selected item of the list, while it should work on the highlighted item.
Bug fix: The Filename field of Startup Manager's top panel always says "N/A".
Bug fix: Closing a tool window with the filter panel visible, causes the program to crash to "Cannot change visibility in OnChange" if the same tool window is opened again.
Bug fix: Double clicking the line between two columns can cause sorting to occur, even as it should only resize the column.
Bug fix: Clicking the Start button in the Anti-Malware sometimes checks the "Scan the following download directories" option, even if the user had it unchecked before clicking Start.
Bug fix: The drag and drop of directories only works with the Anti-Malware the first time you open the tool, opening the tool again causes the drag and drop support to be disabled.
Bug fix: Using the Right-Click > List Control > Remove from list feature can cause the program to crash to an Access Violation if the same tool is used again.
Bug fix: Opening the Debug Tool can cause the program to crash to an Access Violation.
Bug fix: Attempting to open the Debug Tool shows the "Debug Tool not available because you are not running a beta build" error message twice.
Bug fix: Opening the Registry Info many times in a row after clicking Abort can cause the program to crash.
Bug fix: File Tool's "Always show these columns" feature does not always work, e.g. with File Cleaner.
Improvement: The Registry Cleaner no longer reports keys relating to Norton/Symantec products as errors, these keys are protected against modifications by the Norton/Symantec product.
Improvement: It's now possible to resize the very last column of the result lists.
Improvement: Date format selection box of the Settings now uses "HH:NN" notation instead of "HH:MM" in which "MM" was difficult to distinguish from months.
Improvement: Reduced the size of the Registry Compactor (RegCompact.exe) by about 50%.
Improvement: Reduced the flickering of the File Tool during list update operations.
Updated translations: Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Czech, Japanese, Russian

jv16 PowerTools Changelog

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New in jv16 PowerTools 2014 3.1.0.1316 RC2 (Aug 27, 2013)

New in jv16 PowerTools 2013 3.00.1267 (Apr 29, 2013)

New in jv16 PowerTools 2013 3.00.1258 (Apr 11, 2013)

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New in jv16 PowerTools 2013 3.0.0.1245 Beta 6 (Feb 15, 2013)

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New in jv16 PowerTools 2012 2.1.0.1173 (May 18, 2012)

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New in jv16 PowerTools 2011 2.0.0.1053 (Aug 1, 2011)

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New in jv16 PowerTools 2011 2.0.0.1009 (Mar 30, 2011)

New in jv16 PowerTools 2011 2.0.0.1007 (Feb 18, 2011)

New in jv16 PowerTools 2011 2.0.0.1000 Beta 6 (Feb 10, 2011)

New in jv16 PowerTools 2010 2.0.0.986 (Nov 25, 2010)

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