Salta al contenuto principale

Activating Acronis True Image 2011 seems to inhibit other programs running

Thread needs solution

I installed the program on my Windows 7 PC a couple of months ago and finally got around to creating backups today.

But when I tried to run other programs, strange things happened.

-- I got an error message when starting WS_FTP, a file transfer program. It refused to run.

-- When I ran my Palm Desktop by ACCESS program -- a calendar program -- it refused to run as well.

I was able to run the programs as admnistrator.

-- Finally, Microsoft Backup refused to run.

OTOH, my Dreamweaver program ran OK, as did Thunderbird, Firefox, Internet Explorer, etc.

I have no proof that the Acronis program caused these programs to fail. However, the problems had never been there before and studdenly appeared just after I first used Acronis.

0 Users found this helpful

I don't know about WS_FTP or Palm Desktop.

About Microsoft backup, there has been issues when you enable/disable the integration of 2011 with the Windows Control Panel (see Acronis Help > Settings > Integrate True Image...

There was a fix released http://kb.acronis.com/content/14741

I had the issue myself and the fix didn't work for me, although it worked for others. I ended up doing re-installing Windows in place. That's was pretty quick and painless.