Acronis True Image 2020 installation hangs / Application crashes
Hi,
when I try to install Acronis True Image 2020 under my default user account (let's call it "User1") the installation process keeps hanging at 99% for hours. When I cancel the installation the application seems to be installed correctly anyway. Now when I start the application the splash screen is shown and the initiation process starts unless the point "Applying user settings...". Then the application crashes.
Now, when I uninstall the application and re-install it under a new account (e. g. "User2" with admin permissions), the installation finishes successfully and the True Image is starting without any issue. But logged-in with "User1" True Image crashes again.
What can I do?
(OS=Windows 7 x64)


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I would try a couple of things (taking heed that it does require admin access for all of these). When using any installers / uninstallers, always right-click and "run as administrator", even if/when already logged in to the computer using an administrator account. Windows needs this "extra boost" to perform higher level administrative tasks that require UAC (the admin prompts you normally see to run as admin - it actually doesn't get full admin unless you launch the applications this way). If you want to verify this, open a regular command prompt and type nbtstat -R and you'll get a failed to purge error. Then go back and open command prompt with right-click and run as administrator and you'll get a successful prompt. Don't worry, this is a harmless command, but a good way to show how elevating privileges in Windows, can be different, even under an administrative command.
1) Uninstall True Image from control panel
2) Download and run the Acronis cleanup tool (https://kb.acronis.com/content/40366). Don't worry about any registry keys, or anything, I never do. Just make sure you run it by using the right-click and "run as administrator" option.
Then reboot (to update the registry keys automatically)
3) Log into your account and delete any temp files ( %temp% or C:\users\yourusername\appdata\local\temp for the full path). Clean this up if there is stuff in there as it may be a bad instance of previously extracted installation files that should get recreated the next time you go to install the software.
4) Download the latest installer from Acronis (new version came out a couple days ago). Again, be sure to right-click the installer and "run as administrator", even if logged in with an admin account already.
Hopefully that does the trick without any further issues.
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Hi,
thanks for your recommendations.
As I already mentioned above everythings works fine when I use User2. The installation process works fine and there are no application crashes.
I also tried the steps explained by you Bobbo_3C0X1, thanks for this, but had no success. Now I removed ATI2020 version 24.5.1.22510 and installed the earlier version 24.4.1.21400. Now the installation works fine (using User1) and no application crashes occur. There must be something wrong with the userprofile or with the latest installer. I'm still struggling with this.
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I have not been able to install ATI 2020 Update 2 over ATI 2019 under Windows 10. I have been using ATI since 2008, and this is the first time an upgrade has failed. The progress bar on the update box moves to about 95% then stops. I have tried waiting it out for a couple hours. If I try to close the box, it changes from "Updating" to "Canceling" and continues to hang. After I reboot, ATI 2019 is still there and working. That first reboot requires a manual power shutdown because the shutdown hangs.
I have turned off the Windows antivirus and firewall, launched the installer using "Run as administrator", checked that no other msiexec is running.
Do I really need to uninstall ATI 2019 to run an update to 2020? Will the update work when it doesn't find a copy of 2019 on my computer?
Thanks.
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Dave wrote:Do really need to uninstall ATI 2019 to run an update to 2020? Will the update work when it doesn't find a copy of 2019 on my computer?
You shouldn't need to uninstall ATI 2019 to install 2020 - many of us did not - but you are obviously running into something that most of us have not seen. Uninstalling ATI 2019 might get around the problem.
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ktfreak,Dave,
The 22510 of November also causes problems for me. I advise you to turn on the support Ati, so he finally takes the issue.
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Sorry, but I don't know what "turn on the support Ati" means. I'm new to this forum.
Thanks.
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Dave, I believe that he is meaning that you should open a Support ticket direct with Acronis and let them investigate this issue directly with you, including doing a remote support connection to your computer if needed. (I suspect the meaning would be clearer in the original German language before translation).
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Thanks. I have now done that.
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