What's it doing when it's not in use ?

Ever since I installed the trial version of TI 10.0 my system has been running extremely slow.
There's a lot of background activity going on ... constant disk activity even when it's sitting idle.

It reminds me of Norton ... a real resource hog.

Well ... I'm assuming it's Acronis, since it started after the install and nothing else has changed.

I noticed it added 3 items to to my startup menu.

So what is it doing in the background when it's not in use ?

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Actually what it adds use very little resources. See these links for services that are added and running in the background https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=115641 and https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=127446. I have TI 9 and nothing has been added to my startup menu. Use Task manager to see what is using your resources. It almost sounds like you may have spyware running.

 

If you don't plan to do any automated scheduled backups, you can uncheck those three items in your startup. In fact, if you will only be using the basic Backup, Recover and Clone functions, you can create the bootable CD, uninstall the software, and use the CD for these functions - but you will have to buy the full software as the trial version of the CD will not do Backup, only Recover.

 

I think that's "will only do Backup and not Recover" isn't it.

 

Could be right ... I know it's one or the other but never sure which way it is.

 

From an earlier Acronis post:

"Please note that the trial version has only the one limitation: you cannot create backup from Acronis bootable CD."

This lets you restore any backup made during the 15 day period that the Windows portion is operational.

 

Thanks, I had forgotten that the CD won't do backups which would be giving the program away since the CD could be tricked into working forever.

 

You should check CPU/memory usage in task manager to discover what is going on. However note, that just because a process is resident in memory does not mean it is having to consume lots of CPU cycles. OS APIs such as Win32 can allow process threads to park up until needed without consuming any perceptable CPU resource.

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Thanks for all the info.

For now I just wanted to see how the disk clone worked.

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