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Disabling Automatic Startup of All Acronis Processes

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I have installed Acronis True Image 2021. The program launches automatically at system startup. (A tray icon appears on the taskbar.) There are also the following Acronis processes shown in Task Manager. These processes start automatically at system startup:

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I need to disable the automatic startup of all these processes. Acronis processes should run only when I start the program. Does anyone know how to disable the automatic startup of all the Acronis processes at system startup?

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Vlad, welcome to these public User Forums.

Acronis 2021 incorporates Acronis Cyber Protection components which are designed to be 'unstoppable' and which will attempt to undo any attempts by the user to stop them, including relaunching themselves.

Some of the more mundane background services can be changed from automatic startup to being either manual or disabled in the Windows services.msc control panel, i.e. Non Stop Backup, Mobile Backup, Sync Agent and these will remain stopped, especially if you do not use these particular features.

If you truly do not want to have these services active, then you would probably be better to do a full uninstall and find a copy of an earlier version of True Image such as 2020, 2019 etc which didn't have these extra services.

See KB 65464: Acronis True Image 2021: Windows services and processes for more information.

Thank you for the relevant information. I did not realize that some processes cannot be disabled, and will therefore uninstall the application when I no longer need it.

I have created a system image. It is contained in a .tibx file on an external drive.

Can you also explain whether it will be possible to restore the system from this file later with the use of some other backup software? Or are system images created with the use of Acronis recognized only by this program?

Vlad, if you intend to uninstall Acronis while not needed, then I would strongly recommend creating either an Acronis USB rescue media stick or else an Acronis Survival Kit drive, which you could use later if you needed to recover your Acronis system image.

Acronis .tibx / .tib files are only used by that one company and are not compatible with any other backup software, hence the above recommendation.

See KB 65508: Acronis True Image 2021: how to create bootable media and KB 59877: Acronis True Image: how to distinguish between UEFI and Legacy BIOS boot modes of Acronis Bootable Media

The option to create a Survival Kit is only offered when you are creating a new Disks & Partitions (or Entire PC) type backup task and are setting the Destination for the task to a suitable external USB drive that can be used for this purpose.
See KB 61639: Acronis True Image: how to create Acronis Survival Kit - for more information on the process.
Also KB 61738: Acronis True Image: Survival Kit disk partition for backups is limited to 2TB on BIOS-booted systems
And Acronis Article:  The Acronis Survival Kit

Thank you. One of the links shows that a backup can be created by going to Tools > Rescue Media Builder > Simple >ISO file.

If I simply create an .ISO image file, will this file be recognized by other software for the purpose of system recovery?

Vlad, sorry but the ISO file is not a backup but is one of the options for how recovery media can be created.

Vlad Kotenko wrote:

Thank you. One of the links shows that a backup can be created by going to Tools > Rescue Media Builder > Simple >ISO file.

If I simply create an .ISO image file, will this file be recognized by other software for the purpose of system recovery?

I ran ATI software for years this way. Boot the PC using the .iso file and make backups and recover-from also.

An easy way is to make a DVD, another is a bootable USB stick or drive. I have an older PC so boot with EasyBCD to an .iso file on any number of attached disks. 

It has been only relatively recently that I actually installed ATI to my W7Pro system. But I am on 2020 which is less onerous from a resource point of view apparently than 2021.