PowerArchiver Professional Toolbox

PACL — PowerArchiver Command Line for scripting, CI/CD, scheduled tasks

The full PowerArchiver engine as a headless command-line suite. Same 60+ archive formats, AES-256, .PA codec, multi-core ZIP — driven by switches. No installation: registration lives in the binary, so deployment is a file copy. The right tool when archive operations have to run unattended — Windows Server fleets, scheduled tasks, CI/CD pipelines, centrally-managed endpoints.

• Full archive engine — same 60+ formats, AES-256, .PA codec, ZIP / 7Z multi-core as the GUI
• Six tools — PAEXT (extract), PACOMP (create / update), PAENCODE, PASPAN, PACRYPT, PACONV
• No install — file-copy deploys; registration in the binary, perfect for image-based provisioning
• VSS-aware — PACOMP backs up locked / open files via Volume Shadow Copy
• Clean exit codes — 0 = success, 1 = syntax error, 2 = operation error (build-pipeline friendly)
• Server-ready — Windows Server 2008 R2 through 2025, fully headless

Available standalone if you only need PACL — see PACL licensing. Bundled here at no extra cost as part of Toolbox.

Full Secure FTP client — FTPS, SFTP, multi-server queue, scripting

The full standalone client that goes beyond Professional's Send-to-Secure-FTP shortcut. Multi-server connection manager with stored credential profiles, parallel transfers, queue management, scripting hooks for unattended sync jobs, and full PASV / EPSV control for production deployments.

• FTPS + SFTP — explicit + implicit FTPS, SFTP, with encrypted credential storage
• Multi-server connection manager — saved sites, parallel sessions, drag-and-drop between servers
• Scripting hooks — unattended sync scripts callable from Task Scheduler or build pipelines
• Resume + integrity check — survives flaky connections; restart on network recovery
• Advanced transport controls — manual PASV / EPSV, transfer modes, custom port ranges, proxy
• Encrypted credential store — connection profiles protected at rest

For occasional "drop the archive in a folder" workflows, Professional's Send-to-Secure-FTP covers the basic case. Toolbox adds the full standalone client for production use and headless automation.

Advanced .PA codec settings — 20+ tuning options

A dedicated configuration tab exposing the full .PA codec internals: per-format codec selection, deduplication chunk sizes, dictionary sizes, solid-archive blocks, preprocessor toggles, multithreading thresholds. For when you need to squeeze every last byte out of a 50 GB asset library or tune for a specific data shape.

• Per-format codec — pick which codec each file type uses (PDF, DOCX, PNG, JPEG, MP3, generic)
• Deduplication tuning — chunk size, similarity threshold
• LZMA dictionary — 1 MB → 1 GB, balance ratio vs RAM
• Solid blocks — group files into super-archives for higher compression
• Multithreading — thread count, work-stealing queue depth
• Preprocessors — BWT, delta, executable filter, audio filter — toggle individually

Business and Professional use sensible defaults; Toolbox lets you override every one. For 99% of archives, defaults are fine. For asset libraries, scientific datasets, or multi-GB archives, the tuning pays off.

Virtual ISO Drive — mount disc images as Windows drives

Mount ISO, BIN, IMG, NRG, CCD, MDS, MDF, IMG, and Blu-ray images as virtual CD/DVD drives in Windows. Up to 8 virtual drives simultaneously. Windows Explorer, installers, license managers, anything that expects a real drive — see one. No reboot needed; drives appear in This PC immediately.

• Up to 8 simultaneous virtual drives — mount multiple ISOs at once
• Wide format support — ISO, BIN/CUE, IMG, NRG, CCD, MDS/MDF, MDX, BWA, BD images
• Auto-mount — double-click an ISO and Windows opens it as a drive
• Persistent across reboots — optional; mounts can survive restarts
• Region-free for DVD images, no DRM workarounds (ripping protected discs is on you)

Covers the same use cases as Daemon Tools, WinCDEmu, and similar virtual-drive utilities — signed driver, ships with PowerArchiver, no separate install.

Full CD / DVD / Blu-ray Burner

Complete optical burning suite: data CDs/DVDs/BDs, ISO burning, image-from-disc creation, audio CDs (rip and burn), bootable media. Replaces Roxio / Nero for the burning workflow you might still need (vendor-required physical delivery, archival writing to M-Disc, audiophile FLAC-to-CD).

• Data discs — CD-R/RW, DVD-R/RW/+R/+RW/RAM, BD-R/RE, M-Disc
• Burn ISO — write a disc image to physical media
• Disc-to-ISO — extract a physical disc as an image, 1-click
• Audio CD rip — to FLAC, MP3, WAV, with CDDB metadata
• Audio CD burn — FLAC / WAV / MP3 → audiophile-grade CD
• Bootable media — burn .ISO with bootable structure preserved
• Verification pass — read-after-write check; flagged if data doesn't match

Advanced ISO creation — ISO9660, UDF, hybrid

Create ISO images from a folder structure with full control over the filesystem standard. ISO9660 (Joliet, Rock Ridge) for legacy compatibility, UDF (1.02 / 1.50 / 2.00 / 2.01 / 2.50 / 2.60) for modern blu-ray and large files, hybrid ISO9660+UDF for maximum compatibility. Customize boot record, volume label, dates, file attributes.

• ISO9660 levels 1, 2, 3 with Joliet and Rock Ridge extensions
• UDF 1.02 → 2.60 for blu-ray, large files, and modern operating systems
• Hybrid ISO9660+UDF for "boots on anything" archival
• Bootable ISOs — El Torito boot sectors, hybrid BIOS+UEFI
• Custom volume metadata — labels, dates, attributes, file ordering

Inherits everything from Professional + Business

Toolbox includes every Professional feature unchanged — Cloud integrations, Microsoft 365 add-ins, Send-to-Secure-FTP, the full Chiffrement Suite with OpenPGP, PowerArchiver Backup — and all Business features beneath that — 60+ formats, .PA codec, AES-256, password manager, dual-panel UX.

See Professional edition page and Business edition page for the full inherited feature breakdown.