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How to stop Acronis from running after trial expiration?

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My 30-day Acronis True Image 2019 trial expired today.  I have already purchased the full license, but I ordered it as a physical DVD key that will not arrive in the mail until Friday.  Acronis keeps trying to run in the background though, including attempting to continue its regularly scheduled backups, even though it has no valid license at the moment.  It is eating a lot of RAM trying to run when it can't and causing hangups on my PC.  How do I stop Acronis from running after the trial has expired without uninstalling the application?  I will be able to activate it on Friday and would like to keep my backup settings in place.

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Nicole, welcome to these public User Forums.

The easiest way is to set all the background Acronis Services to be stopped and disabled, then end any other active Acronis Processes found via Windows Task Manager.

See KB 61624: Acronis True Image 2019: Windows services and processes - for a listing of what these are and their purpose.

You can get to the main Services.msc (control panel) via the Services page tab of Windows Task Manager - look for a link at the bottom of the page.

Note: the order of stopping Service has to be done first else these will restart any Processes you end!

You could also change the backup tasks from scheduled to no scheduled for the time being and then set a schedule again when you have the license key.