Try & Decide stuck at 98% while applying changes
I used Try & Decide for the first time today. I installed a program and subsequently decided things were fine so I selected the option to apply changes. I chose the option to apply immediately (not sure I have the wording exactly correct, but the alternative was to apply the changes during a restart). Things seemed to progress without issue as the % complete progressed steadily to to 98%. Now, my machine has essentially been stuck at 98% complete for nearly two hours. The drive activity light is solid. The machine isn't locked up. Obviously my concern is the program has encountered some type of problem and anything I do at this point is going to screw up my system.
Does anyone with experience using Try & Decide know how long it takes to apply changes? I know it likely varies depending on how much was done with Try & Decide active, but I'm looking for a range. If the program has hung (or encountered a problem), what state will my system be in if I force a restart?
Thanks!
Tom
Thanks for the reply Fred. After waiting for 4 hours at the 98% complete stage, I shut down my machine (I had the safety net of a backup from the previous night plus continuous backup files to cover anything that had changed up to the point I turned on the Try & Decide). My machine was all messed up at this point and didn't boot correctly. I ended up doing a restore from my backup (which worked great). I'm not sure where things went wrong for me. In the future I will do the same as you are doing -- discard changes and then reinstall.
Thanks again.
Tom
I had the same problem. I tried an application and I wanted to accept the changes made to my system. Unfortunately when Try&Decide started Acronis Loader and started committing the changes it stopped at 98% and would not go on to complete the operation. So I had to turn off the computer and restart it with no success until I repaired the system using the windows vista original CD.
How can a user trust such a program like "Try&Decide build 7046" if he has to go through all this trouble every time he wants to try a new software?
I am very disappointed!
Charalampos Demiris,
Hello, I can identify with your frustration with some aspects of TI and T&D, . However, overall TI works backing up and restoring 100% of the time (for me) so.... some bugs in the software, with some features, on some peoples systems is no big deal ,or a "deal breaker" for me. I would venture a guess that no imaging system will work in every situation 100% of the time, with all "combos" of Hardware and OS's. Get used to it and get over it, do the "work around" and go on from there . Be happy with the fact that TI can,and will restore a broken OS every time.... I have done scores upon scores of recoveries without one failure..... and that is a pretty good record as far as i am concerned . Regards Fred
Hi Fred,
I couldn't agree more with every word. With PC's being more and more a part of peoples and families lives these days, TI's backups are like an extra emergency service!
It isn't often that T&D has problems when applying changes but the approach you all seem to agree upon is very sensible. With some peoples systems I have seen, there are so many not needed programs running (from startup) and all sorts of third party services that are not required either, that when a T&D op is applied I'm not in the least surprised that things fail.
It has alway worked for me but that probably means next time it won't! In all my years of programming and testing and implementing I wish I had had such software allowing me to try stuff without having to manage all sorts of different testing levels. I think I spent more time developing program and system testing environments that could be rolled back than I did producing the actual application software!