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Home 11.0 (NOT, 2011) update issue ... Please help!

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I have been using Home 11.0 every week since April'08 to backup my primary system.

Last week I wandered over to the Acronis website to see what was new ... and found an old update for Home 11.0 ... so I D/Led it and installed it following my backup last week.

I just tried to initiate my weekly backup and ran into a Your 15-Day Trial Is Over notification and a demand to either buy the product or cancel out of the operation ... no 3rd option to simply input the Key Code. {sigh}

I do not know the location in the Registry where I need to add the Key Code (Vista Ultimate 32b) and would appreciate if someone could point it out to me before I start freelancing in the there.

I am not very happy that there is no apparent way (that I could find) to simply ASK this question of Acronis.

"Compute with Confidence" ...

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A couple things you can try.

If I remember correctly, there may be an license add option under the help section. A couple things you can try.

1. Un-install from the add/remove menu and then reinstall again. If you have a fast connection, you may want to download the file again in case it was corrupt for the last install.

2. Or, use a prior backup and restore your system back to the prior version. Then uninstall the old version and try installing the more recent update again.

Thank you very much for the helpful response, GroverH! I truly appreciate it!

After experiencing the ... odd ... format of this forum, I decided to look more closely to see if Acronis might have taken an equally "odd" approach to handling updates for registered users.

I was not too surprised to eventually discover that that is, indeed, the case.

A registered user should NOT simply D/L and install an update from the public Acronis website because it is not coded to simply allow the addition of a "registration key" (as I had already discovered to my great frustration).

Acronis wants to "touch" the D/L of a registered user PRIOR to them D/Ling the file ... so one must Log In at the Acronis website and navigate thru his/her online Account Area in order to find an appropriately modified update to D/L.

I am happy to say that I have completed this week's backup.

I will make a note of this "oddness" in my Acronis Record so that I will be reminded the next time I have to do something like this with the next version of the Product that I will eventually buy ... the Product is SO GOOD the the I am sure that my future choice of Backup Product will remain the same.