Installation Destination and User Settings cannot be Changed
Please advise how I can change the the Setup Settings shown in the Setup Summary Screen during the start of Installation, just after entering the Serial Number?
I wish to change the Destination Folder, and I wish to Install for a Single User. However the option to press BACK button (to change my settings) only takes me back to the Serial Number entry screen.
I have attempted to install ATIH2012 twice now on a virgin Dell desktop. On both occasions the Installation software DID NOT prompt me for these two settings. Somewhere there is a default Setting being applied, which includes:
- Destination: C:\Program Files\Acronis
- Install for: All Users
Please help me :
A) change these settings, and
B) modify your misleading/erroneous Installation Dialog.
It currently says, "If you want to review or change any settings, click Back. If you are satisfied ........click Proceed."
Cheers
It was (is) a VIRGIN system. I uninstalled after the first attempt using Total Uninstaller 5 to complete the uninstall and cleanup any remnants. Moreover, this glitch is not happening during the "install" process where remnant files may screw the process. It is happening during the preliminary Setup process where apparently there are "optional" Settings that I am not being prompted with,
I have since learned that there is an option to change these Setup settings, which appears on the Product Serial Number entry screen. Confusingly and ambiguously, it appears obscurely near the bottom of the same screen, under some text dealing with Trial software and Trial Serial numbers. Moreover, this ambiguity arises because the Change Option does not catch your attention by presenting a Default Destination Path, as is common with most decent software, including Acronis' Disk Director 10.
I trust that Development will take note and amend this poor piece of User Interface to avoid making this Installation routine so non-standard!
Please close this case / posting, Thank You - AC
This should go to the wish list. thanks,
sh
SH - Your suggestion is perfectly valid. However I have no idea how I "transfer" this posting to the WishList. It is only my last entry that carries a suggestion; the rest of the thread would send a Dev person to sleep before s/he got to the end. And forwarding just the last posting wouldn't convey enough info/rationale.
To be frank with you, this suggestion belongs to the QA / QC department. They are clearly the ones who failed to correct the specs initially, and failed to critique sufficiently during testing. And, based on other repeated postings about Acronisis' terrible (non-standard) User Interfaces, this indicates a management problem; not willing to invest in QUALITY. Everyone raves about Apple, but few stop to realise their product pedigrees stem from an obsession with Quality!
Come on Acronis, get serious about Quality and not just Functionality. (I personally have struggled with Acronis products for 5 years. I have even shelved my purchased upgrade to ATI v10 when it came out because it was so lacking in consistency and intuitiveness; I reverted back to using ATI v9.0, and have only just now taken the plunge to upgrade to v2012.)