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I have recently installed Windows 7 and am trying to install Acronis 2010.

It goes through the installation procedure and then tells me it has the latest version and to manually uninstall it to install the older version.

I do not want to install the older version!

I have tried to uninstall the program completely with Control Panel / Programs but it will not uninstall it.

If I look in Windows Explorer, there are a few files left which I cannot manually delete as it says they are being used by Windows Explorer.

How can get rid of the program completely to start again, please?

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Acronis has a "CleanUp" utility which you can download from their website. See if that works for you.

Hello hkbs,

I understand the question and will do everything possible from my side to give you a clear explanation.

If there is no way to remove program from Program and Features (Start -> Control Panel) then the special Acronis Clean Up Utility can be used to uninstall it.

Acronis Clean-Up Utility uses two additional components. Please makes sure that the following components are downloaded and installed in the system:

  • DevCon - command-line utility that is an alternative to the Windows Device Manager. This utility is required to remove Acronis traces from Device Manager. DevCon is included in Windows Vista by default. Read more in Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 311272.

If there is no DevCon in the system, you can download it from Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 311272, and place it in Windows\system32. Or you can just run Acronis Clean Up Utility, and it will offer to remove Acronis True Image Backup Archive Explorer manually using the steps described in the article Removing Acronis Backup Archive Explorer .

  • Msizap.exe - command-line utility that performs cleanup operations on the Windows Installer configuration management information. Msizap.exe is a part of Windows Installer CleanUp Utility. This utility is used to remove Acronis True Image Home 2010 configuration information from the system.

If there is no Msizap.exe, then Acronis Clean Up Utility will offer to download Windows Installer CleanUp Utility from the Microsoft website.

  1. After the required components are installed, please download Acronis Clean Up Utility, unpack and run it;
  2. Please choose to delete all Acronis products from the system;
  3. You will be asked to close Windows Explorer instances since this is necessary to remove the tishell.dll and timounter.dll Acronis files, which interact with explorer.exe;
  4. You will be also asked to reboot the system to complete the uninstallation. You can reboot the system later.

Let me know if you need further assistance.

Thank you.

I have Acronis home 2010 installed on my system and i want to install Acronis home 2011 , so before I install the software i try to uninstall Acronis home 2010 but i couldn't remove it,

after a little search i found the article about cleaning tools , I run the cleaning tools and it remove Acronis home 2010 from my system then i try to install Acronis home 2011 but i always getting this message : The installation was interrupted before Acronis True home 2011 could installed. you need to restart the installer to try again.

I red the article which referring to this problem , and i follow what in it . i cleaned my temp folder but i still getting that message

I have windows 7 86x

please help?

cane jo,
Use one of your backups and restore your C partition back to when 2010 was installed. Then try installing 2011 over top of the existing 2010. It may work for you. If this is not successful, you can always restore the 2010 backup again to get back to normal.

i already did that and that doesn't worked for me, and i want to install 2011 cos i have problems with home 2010 , am using the bootable media cd now but i still need Acronis home 2011 on my computer , i have alot oof date i wana keep it safe.

cane jo,
Remember, this is a forum manned by volunteers. Acronis justs host's the forum. If you want official support from Acronis, then you need to fill out an official supprt ticket. Click on the support tab in upper right corner of this webpage.

You do not need TI installed to create backups of your system. Backups can be reated using your TI Rescue CD. Both backups and restores can be done from the CD.

One thing you might try again is to use the 2011 clean-up utility tool. Check the red link inside my signature below.

Hello all,

Thank you for your messages and your help.

Cane jo, I will definitely help you with this issue.

In order to troubleshoot installation issues, please provide me with the following reports:

1. .msi log.

2. AcronisInfo report.

You can always contact our Support team directly if you need immediate help.

Please let me know if you have additional questions.

Thank you.