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Acronis Recovery tab in Windows File Explorer

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Upon the upgrade to the 2016 product, my file explorer still has the "Acronis Recovery" tab in there, but no data at all in there (completely blank). I've since installed 2016 on a secondary machine, and since it doesn't have the tab at all, I think this is just an artifact of the upgrade process. Is there any way to safely remove this? Please advise... thanks.

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Found my own answer, posting here for the benefit of anyone else who might have the same issue.

To remove the "Acronis Recovery" tab from properties menu delete these keys from registry:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shellex\PropertySheetHandlers\{9E42900A-85F9-4E67-9778-575FBBA0A81C}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\ShellEx\PropertySheetHandlers\{9E42900A-85F9-4E67-9778-575FBBA0A81C}

Thank you for sharing. I didn't realize I'd have to remove this tab because it was not part of 2016 actually. I never found this useful in practice anyway...

Indeed -- and for reference, the tab didn't even show up on my other computer, so that started this exercise. On my first computer, the tab has no data, but shows up. I think it's an artifact of a combined license. Kind of bad, no matter how you slice it, since the tab has no function.

I did a complete uninstall (tab went away) and reinstall (tab came back, again, completely blank).

So anyway, clean is always good.

Pat L wrote:

I didn't realize I'd have to remove this tab because it was not part of 2016 actually. I never found this useful in practice anyway...

1. It's in the 2016 user manual, so I'm not sure what you meant when you said "it was not part of 2016".

2. It's tremendously handy if you do software and did something to mess up the file you were working with.

So, what is the case for the reverse - the Acronis Recovery tab is NOT there when the user manual says it should be - and I'd like to use it?  Any suggestions?  Thanks!

The absense of the "Acronis Recovery" property sheet is a known issue and the developers are working on it.

As to why some seem to have it (albeit blank) and some do not - looks like it is completely absent when dealing with a clean installation (as opposed to an update from True Image 2015).

Thanks for the update.  That's interesting, because telephone technical support informed me a few weeks ago that the feature was not available in TI2016 and that it was, instead, a documentation error that the Acronis Recovery tab was still in the user manual.

I very much like the feature and am hopeful that it will be present in an upcoming 2016 fix!  Without it, I will not be updating my two Windows 7 systems to TI2016 and limp along with TI2012...