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Microsoft products say 'Activation required' while Acronis is performing disk backup

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Hi all,

I'm a long time user of Acronis True Image Home. After I upgraded to 2012, however, I started getting a certain issue.

Every time Acronis starts a scheduled dick image backup (OS disk or otherwise) Windows says its an unregistered product and asks to register it. Once Acronis finishes the backup and i restart, everything is back to normal.

Similar thing happens to all Office 2010 Pro products that I use. While Acronis is running (ie backing up a disk image) I cant open any Office program without it saying 'Microsoft Office Pro 2010 cannot verify the license for this product, You should repair the Office program using Control Panel'. When I click OK, the Office application closes.

That basically means I'm locked out of using Office hours at times while Acronis is using the disks which is a major hit on productivity for me. Everything else works perfectly, just Microsoft licensing is playing up.

I hope you can provide me with a solution.

Kind regards,

Indrek

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Greetings Inderek,

Sorry to here about your problems.

I haven't seen any reports of this type of issue on the forums.  You are using the terms registration and activation at the same time.  They are different.  Are you being prompted for registration or activation?  There are no known issues with Acronis products and Microsoft Product Activation which I am aware of.   

What are typical causes for MS product activation to trigger incorrectly:

-Incomplete upgrade from trial version

-incomplete or unsuccessful activation

-Anti-virus or internet security software

-Restoring your windows install to different/disimilar hardware

-3 or more changes to system hardware within a 120 day period

-Attempting to install or run software under a user acct with limited permissions

-Attempting to install OEM versions of MS products on multiple systems or multiple times on the same hardware

-Booting from a "cloned" system drive without copying the Disk Signature (often correctable if selected)

Office can be repaired using Add/Remove Programs (XP) or Product and Features (win7) select Change and you should be prompted to input the product key and complete activation. I suggest you look deeper at your system. The Event Viewer and the environment. I truly believe any activation issue you are having with windows or office is a coincidence in relation to Acronis and is in fact indicative of a different issue related to your OS installation or environment.

If you'd like to tell us more about your system hardware, OS, environment , version/build of True Image, someone might be able to help you determine why these prompts are appearing. An Acronis System Report might be helpful, but will not likely contain information related to the behaviors you are experiencing.  

Support For MS Product Activation Problems

Probably the oldest report of this kind is http://forum.acronis.com/forum/6850
Whilst for Windows itself the 'not genuine' problem may be considered minor - it won't download updates right now but will after the cloning is over - problem with Office 2010 sees to be major.

Thanks dev-anaon... added this scenario to the list.