RESOLVED: Unloading from memory
Hello
Being something of a control freak when it comes to what runs in the background, I have disabled all scheduled backups in Acronis, and instead I manually backup when I want to.
Imagine then my surprise and disappointment when I close down my machine and every time I am advised that it may take up to two minutes to close down, while Acronis shuts down operations.
As a workaround I have tried disabling any Acronis programs from loading at system startup, but I can find no options to do that within Acronis software. So I used JV16 to disable it, which it claimed was successful only it wasn't. Next bootup, there is something from Acronis running in the background.
Ideally I would like the memory entirely free of Acronis until I choose to do a backup, and THEN I shall be happy to load the program, run the backup and then close it down again, without it leaving a footprint in the running processes for no purpose.
Any way to achieve this, short of uninstalling Acronis and then reinstalling it whenever I want to run a backup? That sounds like the cure being worse than the disease.
Thanks


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Thanks. That sort of half-worked.
I set them to manual, and rebooted (after the customary 2 minute delay) and lo! No Acronis services working in the background, and indeed everything seems to be speeding up.
But then I load Acronis and then close it down again, and I find that two of the services have been re-set from manual to automatic ("Acronis Managed Machine Service mini" and "Acronis Scheduler2 Service").
Then I am back to the 2 minute wait to shut down.
So, it seems that not only do I have to run services.msc to change them to manual, but I have to do it after every occasion of actually using the application. Sheesh.
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I think they are automatic startup services as well. If using windows 7 / 8 / 8.1 check "msconfig" startup services and disable them. If using Win 10, open up task manager >>> start up tab and disable any Acronis services. Reboot and check and see if they still show up after that.
If Acronis starts these services automatially after you fire ATIH up manually, don't know if there is a way to stop that, other than not firing up Acronis unless you need to and then manually making the service changes again if you do.
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That seems to have done the trick, thanks
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