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They keep making meaningless changes to the User Interface that just make you relearn how to set it up and use it. I've used many versions of True Image Backup and never liked the interface but it's a good product (maybe the best).

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On checkout it showed the product was used but it was new but it had something cut off the box but the Product code was inside and it looked as though the factory seal was never tampered with. What are the odds this is gonna work out in my favor? I'm going to try and return this, now opened, CD envelope. But, I feel that I have wasted money on a non-functional product. Seriously, have customers get into the Registry?!? What are you thinking? What could go wrong?ģ. I'm stunned that they have such a complex, and hidden, script to remove the product and edit the Registry. I'm irritated that they disabled local backups when I didn't opt to renew cloud coverage.Ģ. I have never experienced a product that I couldn't remove, replace, or reinstall. I've been putzing around with Microsoft since damn near day 1. Perhaps, I think, I need to rerun the script and remove all vestiges of Acronis (again), no matter how small.

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The install procedure sat at the Status time-bar for over an hour with no progress. I edit the registry and then try a fresh install from CD. WTF? At least I now know this has happened to others. The next YGBSM moment was when they instructed me to go into RegEdit to also remove errant key settings.

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OMG, I get a link to the Acronis webpage that supplies a script you have to download and run (start->run, etc.). OK, google 'How do I uninstall Acronis 2016'. Nope, Acronis uninstall said it was already gone. It would not install saying that I already had an Acronis product, the cloud product that had expired. The Acronis True Image 2017 CD arrived from Amazon and I tried to install it. What could go wrong? I'll even give them another go by ordering just the basic local disk storage option CD. Therefore I opted to revert to a simple local disk based backup. Their cloud offering was pretty much useless, given bandwidth limitations I kept experiencing and only token storage capacity (unless I wanted to buy more). When they disabled it, I mean they wouldn't even let me do local backups. Acronis disabled this product, when I failed to renew my cloud option. I used the Acronis cloud product for a year. So, I have upgraded my assessment to 4 stars. Moreover, now id does backup to a DVD / Blue-Ray.

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(The Task Bar item is gone, for example.) It still has a couple of background processes, but these allow full cloning of your hard drive. That version does just what I want it to, and has much less 'intrusiveness'. They allowed me to 'downgrade' to True Image 2014. UPDATE: I spoke to Acronis customer support. Unfortunately, Acronis has ruined what had been a reasonable product. It compresses and writes files to my Blue-Ray, and then it goes away. What I wanted was a simple backup system. And, they cannot be removed from the TaskBar. Moreover, there are some that show up in my TaskBar. I do not know what they are all doing, but they seem to be communicating over my WiFi. When running Task Manager, I found no less than 6 background processes running all the time for Acronis. The second concern is that this is an incredibly intrusive program. Then, to recover files, I would perform the process in reverse: copy from my Blue-Ray to their Cloud and restore from the Cloud. Or, I could backup to their Cloud service and then manually copy to my Blue-Ray. Their suggestion was to back up my hard drive to my hard drive and then manually copy to the Blue-Ray disk. Moreover, when I contacted their rather mediocre technical support, they pretty much admitted it. But, although this advertises it will work with external drives, the fact is that it does not. I like Blue-Ray backup because it doesn't take a lot of disks and I control the location of the backup. It no longer supports backups to DVDs, or in my case, Blue-Ray disks. Such as their Cloud service, which you can pay additional money for. However, Acronis has decided that the ONLY method for performing backups will be to use a Cloud service. I had hoped that this version would be as good. I have used Acronis backup before the last version was 2014, which worked great.