ATI 2014 using CPU and RAM when no backups scheduled
I installed ATI 2014 Premium in December. WinXP SP3. I made two backups of my local drives onto an external USB drive. Both are set as Not Scheduled. They were one-time backups. There are no scheduled backups in the list. There are no files/folders selected in the Non-Stop Backups page.
Yet for some reason at regular intervals my hard drives start blinking away and when I check Task Manager I see True Image Monitor using 100MB+ of RAM and popping up to the top of the CPU usage list.
Why???
How can I stop this from happening. True Image should be doing nothing until the next time I want to make a backup, which is maybe once a month. This high activity comes at inopportune times, such as when I am using resource intensive programs. A couple of times that combination has crashed Windows. It's been years since my computer crashed, yet it's happened several times since ATI was installed, and each time when TIMonitor is doing something with my hard drives.
Is there some way to stop this, short of doing a full uninstall of ATI?
That sounds like something I would have to do every time my computer boots.
Isn't there a way to stop this from happening in a way I can set and leave. Maybe changing back before wanting to do a manual backup?
I guess I could just disable all 3 Acronis startup files in the msconfig startup tab. Would that be the right thing to do? (schedhlp, TibMounterMonitor, and TrueImageMonitor)
One automatic regular use of the computer by TrueImage is the automatic checking for updates. This setting is located in the upper right corner help section. This setting must be unchecked by the user to prevent the unexpected use of your computer.
Another place to look is the validation setting which is set at task creation time. Sometimes the user will enable validation at regular intervals rather than just at backup time. You can check this by:
Simulate editing each of your tasks and look at the settings found for "validation". Make sure the only validation setting enabled is the "validate at time of backup".
One automatic regular use of the computer by TrueImage is the automatic checking for updates. This setting is located in the upper right corner help section. This setting must be unchecked by the user to prevent the unexpected use of your computer.
There is no checkbox for auto update checking in the upper right (on the version I have, ATI 2014 Premium). There is a link in the help menu in the upper right to check now for updates. After it looks for updates then there is a checkbox to enable/disable the auto checking in that popup window.
It's unchecked.
Another place to look is the validation setting which is set at task creation time. Sometimes the user will enable validation at regular intervals rather than just at backup time. You can check this by:Simulate editing each of your tasks and look at the settings found for "validation". Make sure the only validation setting enabled is the "validate at time of backup".
Both validates are unchecked in both of the backups that I have created.
So the activity I'm seeing is not the updates, and not the validate.
Try pressing the keys
Ctrl-Alt-Del
Select Start Task Manager
Click the Processes Tab and Review the CPU activity by occurrence.
If you are not using sync or non-stop backup, the Windows services for those two items can be stopped and disabled.