Uninstall 2018 fails on Win 10
I have 2018 build 12510 installed. Upgrade to the newer build always failed on all 3 machines.
Now it won't uninstall from Programs and Features, says "No Acronis True Image Files Found", but backup runs every day.
I downloaded the 12510 installer and ran it, selected uninstall, this failed too.
Then I ran the "Acroniscleanuptool.exe" which removed it. I did not have to delete any entries from the registry as outlined in the instructions, so presumably the cleanup removed them if they were there.
So, all good? No, no, no. Now my system won't take a VSS copy so I can't run my other backup program. So I restored from backup and now VSS snapshot works again, but of course I have Acronis 2018 back again.
Can anyone shed any light on what the cleanup tool strips out to kill VSS copy?


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I agree that the uninstall tool shouldn't kill VSS but it did - no other changes were made to Win10.
No other Acronis products were installed.
I restored to the previous day and used the Microsoft uninstall tool which found and repaired the registry entries preventing the uninstall (which presumably also caused the upgrade failure), and the ATI2018 is now uninstalled and VSS working.
I found a snapman.sys file in the Drivers directory which has an Acronis signature so I deleted that.
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