Software Update: PowerArchiver 2003 8.50

The developers of PowerArchiver have released version 8.50 . after a few months of development released† This packing and unpacking program can handle different compression techniques. The packed files can be secured using five different encryption methods. The following changes have been made in this release:

Major changes:

• Internal Viewer: additional support for more than 14 graphic formats (PNG, JPEG, TIFF, Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, Autodesk images files, SGI, Truevision images, PCX, …).
• Encoding Support: Added full yENC support.
• Windows XP ClearType support.
• Encryption Support: Added AES (256-bit) algorithm support to PAE. Backwards compatible with all PowerArchiver 2002 versions.
• Web Update Enhancements: New web update check facility that has ability to preview version changes before downloading update.
• New toolbar: it can be docked or float and it works better with Win98. It is also much smaller and takes up less space allowing for more buttons to be shown.
• Solved all minor graphic issues when using Win98 and certain graphic cards.
• PowerArchiver is now faster, load times are significantly improved.
• Memory usage has been optimized and reduced.