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Chris, welcome to these User Forums.

The simple answer to your question is Yes, you can continue to work on your computer while you have an Acronis Backup task active, this is assuming that you are doing the backup using the Acronis True Image application running in Windows, rather than using the Acronis bootable Rescue Media which runs as a standalone application fully outside of Windows.

Any changes to files & folders that you make while the backup is running are unlikely to be included in the backup as Acronis will capture a snapshot of those files / folders at the time the backup starts and then work from the snapshot instead of the original files / folders.

Further to Steve's comments, while it is generally the case that you can continue to use the PC, if you have a PC with low specifications (CPU and RAM) and use high compression and high priority you may see some impact on the PC performance when doing other tasks. That said I have run ATI on a PC with low spec AMD APU and limited RAM. 

Ian