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Reduce True Image 2019 to the max: Backup and restore

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Dear TrueImage experts,

running TrueImage 2019 under Windows 10 on a quite old laptop, I would like to reduce TrueImage 2019 to the max. That means:  No background services, no not absolutly necessary processes. Just start manually what I need when I want to make a backup (or restore one) and shutting everything down when finishing the program without unwanted rising at the next start of Windows.

There are quite a lot of topics in the forum about starting and stopping services, about using SysInternals for activating and deactivating Autoruns etc, e. g.

https://forum.acronis.com/forum/acronis-true-image-2018-forum/can-i-disable-all-acronis-background-services-when-i-only-need-demand-disk-imaging

https://kb.acronis.com/content/60222

https://kb.acronis.com/content/61624

just to name a few. What I could not find yet is an instruction which services and processes have to be stopped/deactivated (and started/activated) in which order and which combinations for reaching my purpose without a lot of trial and error and the risk of missing something.

I also saw some scripts (I think on the acronis.com domain?) for stopping services (some time ago and of course I cannot find them at the moment). The suggestion was, if I remember correctly, to put those scripts into the Windows autorun folder which I think is not the best solution: Spending time on startup for starting and initializing services and processes which a few seconds later will be stopped anyway by a script, consuming time as well?

To make long things short:

Are there complete (!) step by step instructions provided by Acronis to accomplish the tasks I described in the first paragraph or better are there scripts provided for this or even much better for the users not so familiar with Windows internals a is there a tool with nice GUI to do this (or will there be one in the future?).

Kind regards,

Franz

(True Image user since version Acronis True Image 7.0)

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Franz, welcome to these public User Forums.

See KB 61624: Acronis True Image 2019: Windows services and processes

You can stop / set to Disabled all Acronis Services apart from the Scheduler 2 service which is required for any backup task to be performed.

When the Acronis Services are stopped / disabled, then there are just a couple of TrueImage processes that tend to be active but which should take no real CPU etc as they are purely there to monitor for activities related to Acronis backups or backup files, i.e. TibMounter etc. 

If needed, you could use msconfig to disable those processes too if you really needed to do so.

Hello, Steve,

thank you for the fast reply. 61624 I mentioned in my posting as part of my homework I did before asking my question ;-) but the additional information you gave about stopping all services with the exception of Scheduler 2 was very helpful (= the missing info in the KB article) and rassuring.

Thanks again.

Franz

Franz, glad the information helped.  For reference, you can find the .BAT scripts for stopping / starting services via the Useful Links section of the forum under MVP User Tools and Tutorials