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Acronis True Image costs performance when not used


Over two years ago I installed Acronis True Image for Crucial in order to migrate my data to a new SSD I had just purchased. It worked. I then left True Image installed “just in case”, and what har…

The CPU Usage (Sampled) data works by interrupting all running CPUs 1,000 times a second (by default) and grabbing call stacks. Their first response: “We have not encountered any customers experiencing issues with the Acronis free version available on the Crucial website.” After a bit more pushing I got “Our team is looking into this matter, and we will provide any relevant updates as soon as possible.” – here’s hoping. It seems like Explorer should be clean and tidy because otherwise we risk having our computers be unstable but the reality is a busy stream of C++ and COM exceptions and warnings about unsupported interfaces and invalid window handles.

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