How can I hide the secure zone in the explorer without deleting it?
Hello,
I have the problem that my PaintShop installation always invokes TI as it shows the Secure Zone (SZ) like an ordinary local drive in the navigation pane. So with every start of PaintShop I need to approve the User Account Control (UAC) message (several times) and I need to enter the SZ password. I guess I can work around this issue if there's a possibility to hide the SZ from the explorer (although I want to keep the SZ physically on my machine as backup location).
OS: Windows 7 Professional
TI: Acronis True Image Home 2012
Is there a way to do so?
Thanks a lot.
-Marius.
Marius, most of us old-timers recommend against use of the Secure Zone. It doesn't really offer any security, since if your disk fails you lose both your regular partition(s) and your Secure Zone backup. A backup that is on the same disk as the original isn't much of a backup.
Plus, Secure Zone has often caused problems on systems. In fact, when I installed the Secure Zone on a PC many years ago, it corrupted the drive and recovery was impossible. Acronis Support acknowledged that this sometimes occurred.
Whether you continue to use Secure Zone or not, I recommend that you start making ATI backup images to an external hard drive. That would offer true backup security.
Hi Scott & tuttle,
Thanks for your comments and tipps. The Secure Zone is located on a second HDD (the whole HDD is configured as SZ) - so as you said, just to protect data loss in case the main HDD 1 fails. But as I understood you, even in such a scenario the SZ does not really offer any additional security (e.g. also aginst virus infections...)!? If it's really that way then for sure I can just delete the SZ and use the disk for "normal" backup space.
Did I get you right?
Thanks for your time.
-Marius.
imo, the best security includes 1) have good security software (to guard against viruses and malware); 2) backup to a separate hdisk (short of a flood or fire, the liklihood that the origanal hdisk and the backup hdisk will fail at the same time is very very small) and 3: also ocassionally backup to another disk which is stored at a diff geographic location (this literally is your fire/flood insurance).
Marius,
I agree with all the comments. IN addition, the ASZ is not very flexible and is dependent on your Acronis installation. You would be better off using a regular partition and diversify your backup locations and backup technologies, in particular for irreplaceable content (like family photos, professional creations, etc.).
Hello Scott & Pat,
Thanks for your comments. Just removed my SZ and setup the backup process the normal way.
-Marius.
Hello,
1. for remove in winxp from windows explorer an object "Acronis Secure Zone", I've searched string "Acronis Secure Zone" and there are was this string {C539A15B-3AF9-4c92-B771-50CB78F5C751}
2. then started searching by this string {C539A15B-3AF9-4c92-B771-50CB78F5C751} and found
in path:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MyComputer\NameSpace\
3. this key {C539A15B-3AF9-4c92-B771-50CB78F5C751}
4. and have deleted it. and "Acronis Secure Zone" in windows explorer was disappeared