Acronis Never Installed but listed in Task Manager
Here's an unusual situation:
I used Acronis around 2010-2012 on a different computer. I was using Terabyte Image for DOS at that time, and tried Acronis to see if it more features. The computer locked up when I restored, and I used Image for DOS to recover. Forums indicated other users were having problems, so didn't pursue it further.
Back to my current computer. I just updated from win7 to win10 and the Notification window suggested I check Task Manager to see if I didn't need some of the high usage startup applications.
I did so; Acronis TIB Monitor was enabled and had a high startup Impact. I attempted to uninstall, but the win10 version of All Programs didn't list it, and it wasn't listed in Add/Remove Programs. Total Uninstall 5 didn't list it, either.
Checking further, C:\Program Files(X86)\Common Files\Acronis was seen. The Acronis folder contained four folders: Tib; Tib64, TibMounter, and TibMounter64; dated 5/18/14.
It would be nice to return to win7 and see if Acronis was there, but I don't dare. I have a win7 image file, but Microsoft changed their win10 upgrade policies to the other extreme. I could not upgrade to win10, even though Microsoft says my computer meets all the requirements. I assume the upgrade was not blessed by Dell for this computer. After close to an hour with Microsoft support chat, I downloaded an .iso file and they used it to upgrade. This computer works fine, and I have the .iso file but don't know how to use it.
Is it possible to uninstall the remnants of Acronis; is it some sort of malware program with an Acronis name; or should I just disable it in Task Manager? Another thought is to just delete the Acronis folders and files and leave the registry alone.
Suggestions?


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