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Acronis True Image 2016 runs, but will not display on screen

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A week ago I installed a new graphics card  a Radeon R9 380 NITRO Dual-X OC 4GB GDDR5 PCIe Graphics Card on my pc running windows 8.1. Up to then no problems

Acronis true image 2016 has been running in the background doing daily backups of my drives, and these are visible on my backup disk. However if I try to open  True image the window will not display. There is a quick flash half on and half off the screen and then nothing. The underlying display is not affected. I tried a recovery booting from the recovery disk, and everything worked as normal. How can I get it to display on my screen. 

Tried upgrade to Windows 10. ......no change

Reinstallation............ no change.

Any ideas?

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A further development. On this pc I am doing a clean installation of Windows 10 on another hard drive ready for a switch over at a later date. Everthing works smoothly with Acronis True Image. Maybe if I could do a total removal of Acronis True Image from my original hard drive then  I could  do a clean installation of it. Is this possible?

Several of you have looked at my problem and no-one has guessed the answer which was staring me in the face.

I have two 4k monitors and I have to change the resolution for some programs which do not support font scaling. In this instance  I must have moved the Acronis window almost off the screen when I changed the resolution to a lower one and consequently could not see it at this resolution. When I changed the resolution of the monitors to a higher one I was able to see the Acronis window and drag it to the middle of the screen . Now I can see it at all resolutions.

Glad you got it fixed!  This has happened with me in other applications as well with a dual monitor setup using just 1080P.  Not sure what causes this, but I'm guessing it may be a Windows bug.  Luckily, there is an easy way to move an offscreen window back if it happens again.  How-to-Geek has a write-up with the quick fix which.  I use this one:

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows/bring-misplaced-off-screen-windo…

"There’s a simple trick to get around this. First make sure you’ve alt-tabbed to the window, or clicked on it once to bring it into focus. Then right-click on the taskbar and choose Move.

Note: If you’re using Windows 8 or 10 you might have to hold down the SHIFT key before right-clicking in order to get the Move menu item to show up.

At this point, you should notice that your cursor changes to the “Move” cursor, but you still can’t move anything.

Just hit any one of the arrow keys (Left, Right, Down, Up), move your mouse, and the window should magically “pop” back onto the screen."