Download PowerArchiver 2010 11.60 RC3

ConeXware has released the third release candidate of the PowerArchiver 11.6 archiving utility. This program can handle common archive types such as zip, 7z, cab, lha tar, gzip, bzip2, rar, arj, arc and ace. In addition, it can also read CD or DVD images, such as iso, bin, img and nrg. PowerArchiver is available in two different versions: a standard and a professional edition. The first contains everything we’ve come to expect from the old PowerArchiver; the other can also burn CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray discs, create ISO files and also mount them as a virtual drive, and lastly can also be used as an ftp client. The CD and DVD burning functionality has been tinkered with in this third release candidate:

PA 2010 11.60 Preview #3 – improved burner experience…Heads up to all users that use our burner – we have improved burning experience in 11.60 Preview #3 with addition of burning via SPTD layer. It basically lets multiple software use the same device without any conflicts (something that ASPI and SPTI methods dont). For some people it should improve their experience, make their burners work better with PowerArchiver and we also observed 20% faster burning speed on our test computers (might different from your experience, all burners are different).

We have tried to make it simple – as SPTD drivers add 2 MB of the installation, and not everyone uses burner (or is Pro user), we incorporated these drivers inside PAVD installation in version 1.03.04 of PAVD (available now). As soon as you install that update, PowerArchiver will automatically use SPTD layer for burning. We have added this automatic selection as option in Config> Misc so you can change it there if you see that you get better results with SPTI (old school), for whatever reason.
PowerArchiver 2009 11.00 – click on the image for a larger version