Acronis True Image home 10

I have had nothing but problems with Ghost here lately. I've been using it for years, but suddenly the images we create either can not span to a 2TB drive because it's out of space for some odd reason. We have plenty of room. Or if I go to an older Ghost, it creates the image but then says it is corrupt when I try to restore it.

We have many licenses of Ghost, but this is wasting too much time for my personal PC. So I install it.

Issue#1) It creates a shell add on called "Backup" which allows me to backup a file or folder by right clicking on it. Well, this is fine for a home PC but when trying to right click across the WAN, it is a killer. Just like Winzip, one must remove the shell entry. Unlike Winzip, there is not a menu option to do this.

So locate {C539A15A-3AF9-4c92-B771-50CB78F5C751} under hklm/software/classes/clsid and go into InProcServer32. Modify the string "(Default)" and make it an empty string, deleting the Acronis DLL. No more Backup shortcut, and no more slow downs.

Issue #2) This software installs upper filters on the DVD/CDROM drive. These conflict with existing filters. So locate the upperfilter in registry and remove the new entry for Acronis. I didn't write it down, but it is rather apparent. If it's not apparent to you, then you should not be making these changes as they can cause a system to not boot if done wrong.

This is pretty good software. I'd like to have a stripped down version that doesn't have all the integration though. This software installs services, schedulers, many new tasks, and modifies a huge chunk of the registry/system. It also installs device drivers.

I have successfully moved two computers with this software. XP with 1 CPU to XP with 2 CPU's and more memory worked well. XP autodetected the additional CPU, PnPed, and rebooted. The machine that went from a P733 Dell to a P1.8 SuperMicro didn't fare as well. System just keep rebooting. But, as usually, you just do an in place re-install of XP and we're back in business. Of couse, the Dell had an OEM license of XP so this causes me to have to purchase & install a new license of XP and toss the old one. It's always something, eh?