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Smitty
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Posted: Mon May 23, 2016 9:51 am |
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Joined: Sun Apr 15, 2012 9:16 am Posts: 199 Location: Lambertville, NJ
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jaylach wrote: MacDuffie wrote: Has anyone done the registry edits from the article I referenced in my last post? Not yet on my end. I'll try them but not until I upgrade my Win 7 desktop to 10 then make an image of 10 and restore 7. After that I will try the registry hacks. This will probably be Tuesday or Wednesday. Jay, I'm curious. After upgrading your Win 7 desktop to Win 10, how are you going to make an image of 10? I don't think your imaging program, that you're going to use to get back to Win 7, comes with Win 10.
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Acadia
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Posted: Mon May 23, 2016 10:14 am |
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Joined: Wed Apr 11, 2012 6:45 am Posts: 1073
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jaylach
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Posted: Mon May 23, 2016 11:31 am |
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Joined: Wed Mar 21, 2012 5:09 am Posts: 9438 Location: The state of confusion; I just use Wyoming for mail.
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I don't see where Windows Imaging is hidden at all. It is listed in the Control Panel as 'Backup and restore (Windows 7)' as the second link above indicates. The first link was done while Windows 10 was still a preview and not complete. The third says Windows 10 but is actually Windows 8.1.
Even if the built in imaging were gone I also use Acronis True Image.
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Smitty
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Posted: Mon May 23, 2016 12:19 pm |
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Joined: Sun Apr 15, 2012 9:16 am Posts: 199 Location: Lambertville, NJ
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jaylach wrote: I don't see where Windows Imaging is hidden at all. It is listed in the Control Panel as 'Backup and restore (Windows 7)' as the second link above indicates. The first link was done before Windows 10 was still a preview and not complete. The third says Windows 10 but is actually Windows 8.1.
Even if the built in imaging were gone I also use Acronis True Image. Back to my question...how's ATI going to help you image Win 10 when it's installed in Win 7? Won't you have to purchase ATI again to use in Win 10?
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jaylach
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Posted: Mon May 23, 2016 12:26 pm |
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Joined: Wed Mar 21, 2012 5:09 am Posts: 9438 Location: The state of confusion; I just use Wyoming for mail.
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I have two licenses for Acronis and only one in use. Not an issue. Still that is not even a factor. Even if I only had one license Acronis will be carried along during the upgrade to 10. Since, at that point, Win 7 no longer exists the Acronis on 10 is valid. Once I remove 10 and return to 7 Acronis is back to valid in 7 as 10 no longer exists on the machine.
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Smitty
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Posted: Mon May 23, 2016 12:34 pm |
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Joined: Sun Apr 15, 2012 9:16 am Posts: 199 Location: Lambertville, NJ
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OK. Now I've got it..
Thanks
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Acadia
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Posted: Mon May 23, 2016 1:04 pm |
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My opinion: if you want to protect your entire system with a complete c:drive backup image, you have no choice but to go third party. But the really neat thing is that there are now so many excellent ones, they've been able to keep up with Microsoft constantly changing things on them with each new MS OS. Just pick one, a tiny few are free but they don't give you the special options, and go for it! Actually, pick more than one and back yourself up multiple times. But I believe that you already know that. Acadia
_________________ The blazing evidence of immortality is our dissatisfaction with any other solution. -- Emerson
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JoanA
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Posted: Mon May 23, 2016 4:24 pm |
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Joined: Thu Apr 05, 2012 3:25 pm Posts: 1916 Location: Pembrokeshire, South Wales, UK
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I use a paid version of Acronis plus I have the free version of Macrium Reflect which is very good and use the inbuilt File History as well. So far I've not tried the inbuilt imaging.
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jaylach
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Posted: Mon May 23, 2016 9:29 pm |
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Joined: Wed Mar 21, 2012 5:09 am Posts: 9438 Location: The state of confusion; I just use Wyoming for mail.
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I rather like the built in imaging Joan, although some will disagree. The disagreement is fine as different people look for different things. If everyone wanted/liked the same thing there would only be one of each. I will say that I only use the built in imaging manually as I don't care for incremental images; nothing wrong with them, just personal preference. I DO allow Acronis to run on a schedule doing incrementally to an internal drive but I also do Acronis to another drive always doing full images.
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JoanA
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Posted: Tue May 24, 2016 11:35 am |
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Joined: Thu Apr 05, 2012 3:25 pm Posts: 1916 Location: Pembrokeshire, South Wales, UK
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I have Acronis on this Notebook but don't use it that often. I also have it on my Windows 7 desktop and that is set to do a weekly image to an External drive that is permanently attached to it, that is set to do a full image each time.
Macrium does a full image as well on this Notebook, I run that manually each week and it's set to just keep a certain amount of images and delete the oldest.
I'll have to look into the built in one, this is Windows 10 by the way the desktop runs 7.
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Peter2150
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Posted: Tue May 24, 2016 8:48 pm |
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Joan, the built in one offers you nothing over the two you already have.
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