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I have true image 2010-should I upgrade?

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Hi folks,

I have true image 2010 and it is running fine on windows 7, on windows 10 the release version of true image 2010 will work, but adding updates stops it working, at the moment mainly I am working on windows 7.

Well I got a special offer email from Acronis, three computer licence for £20.99, and on live chat it has been confirmed that if I upgrade it will be a perpetual licence.

Only thing I am a little hesitant about is that I would have to activate 2018 version (Don't have to do this with current version) and as I will probably use 18 version for the foreseeable future, I am wondering if the activation can be a hurdle to overcome in the event that I might use up the activations, and wouldn't be able to transfer it to a new computer?

So my question is, is Acronis usually good about allocating extra activations to a verified customer if the need should arise?

Another thing is, I have a dual boot with both windows 7 and 10, on same computer but a google search seems to confirm from a previous thread that will only use up one activation as same CPU id and Bios ID.

Many thanks for any help.

Joe

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Joe, the price you quote (£20.99) for a 3 computer licence sounds good to me, effectively only £7 per computer and bringing all the benefits of having an up to date application capable of working with the majority of modern computer hardware and OS.

Activation is very much an unavoidable aspect of most computer applications these days and protects the users as much as it protects the software vendor, so you will need to activate ATI 2018 if you purchase and install this application.

Transfer of licences to other computers is handled very well and is documented in KB 59878: Acronis True Image 2018: "You've exceeded the maximum number of activations for this serial number" and also KB 59879: Acronis True Image 2018: how to activate serial number

I have not tested running the same copy of ATI 2018 on a dual-boot system running different versions of Windows OS - as you indicated from previous forum topics on this subject, this should be possible with a single licence / serial, but the above KB casts a question mark over having different OS versions in this scenario.  When I have used dual-boot, I have tended to have different versions of ATI installed, i.e. 2018 and 2017 in combination with Windows 10 Insiders and Windows 10 standard versions, where this obviously uses different licences.

Thanks a lot Steve for taking the time to reply.

Probably I am overdue an upgrade so seriously thinking about it.

Thanks again.

Joe