- #Block acronis activation host update#
- #Block acronis activation host upgrade#
- #Block acronis activation host software#
- #Block acronis activation host windows#
Acronis did not do what they said would happen.stop the daily (and every time you reboot) popups once TI 2015 was released.
#Block acronis activation host upgrade#
Well.again today the upgrade nag-ware popups continued on all of my machines. The hosts solution unfortunately does not work at all. That was not true: the next day the messages appeared again. By saying that one has to switch off the notifications they are actually saying that one has to permanently close his/her mailbox for all messages, because the sender has decided to send spam next to sending useful messages.Īlso, in one of the posts above I have said that using the hosts file, I was able to at least stop the notification messages on my 64-bit machine.
#Block acronis activation host windows#
The KB you refer to literally states that notifications is a Windows feature, which is an outright lie! Acronis decides/programs when notifications are given, that is not a Windows feature. One thing is for sure, I'm now completely turned off from even considering TI 2015, so their marketing nag-ware has backfired in my case. Beyond that, they are spamming the customer with no logical method to be able to stop it. A single email or a single pop-up would have been fine from Acronis about "TI 2015".
#Block acronis activation host software#
That is very bad form for Acronis and is already affecting the way that I view them for future Backup software business (at home and on my corporate machines). In essence as customers, we are expected to just put up with it until Acronis decides they want to stop it. The agent also said that the pop-ups would continue until Acronis formally releases version 2015. I also told him that it was unacceptable (to me) to have to turn off all "good" Acronis messaging just because someone feels we need to see that 2015 upgrade pop-up every day. I told the agent that several people have tried that method (in the KB article) and reported that it didn't stop the nagging-upgrade-messaging. The only thing they could point me to was this KB Article that was apparently created today. I had a long Chat with Acronis this morning that was totally unfruitful.
#Block acronis activation host update#
I presume invoking such blocking will likely also inhibit minor build version update notifications (such as the recent 6688 build) - but I can live with that - I'll just have to make a point of checking the website for 2014 product updates from time to time.įairly long-time TI customer here (since 2006). Since these systems all reside on the same local subnet I may first try setting up a firewall block rule for the IP/URL to see if that addresses the issue. I find it a bit sad having to resort to this measure in order to address the problem - but that's what I'll gladly do if need be. I read with great interest the suggestion about utilizing the HOSTS file (a strong "Thank You" BTW, to that poster for this insight/revelation of the offending Acronis IP/URL!) to block the offending Acronis source IP/URL. Thanks for the quick response Colin (and others) -Īs the other posters have already reported, switching off notifications fails to affect the prompts (FWIW, I'd already tried that measure prior to posting). However, both disappear after a short while.Ĭhanging the hosts file only eliminates the update notification and tray icon on my 64-bit machine, not the tray icon on my 32-bit machine. On my 64-bit machine on the other hand, the same icon is shown with a text balloon, indicating there is an update available. The icon always remains in the tray, it does not disappear after a certain period. Therefore I had to find out it was related to True Image by shutting down processes in Task Manager process by process and when the icon disappeared after closing TrueImageMonitor.exe I knew it was related to that process. The tray icon has no description and no right-click or left-click options, unlike all other tray icons. It seems that Acronis did some sloppy programming however, because it was a hard job to link the icon to the process TrueImageMonitor.exe, which (a.o.) indicates there is an update. Before changing the hosts file I only get a tray icon on my 32-bit machine to indicate there is an update, no text balloon.
I have a Vista Ultimate 32-bit machine and a Vista Ultimate 64-bit machine.
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