Basically I was for many years a friend of Acronis. Everything was simple, fast and the backups actually work. Now, with a new computer and the will more important to secure than just holiday photos and the OS, I met on the first little problem: From a certain path length no longer secures Acronis files. Ok, that is easy to handle, just ought to go up a slightly larger window during failure of regular backup. I only noticed it after a month, when I wanted to create a further regularly scheduled backup ... Worse, however, I find the fact that Acronis me practically forcing me to create an account. In addition, I now get the message, my serial number is repeatedly activated and I have changed the hardware. Both is not the case. Now I wanted to call on the support, but I would refer the computer voice only on the Internet, where I'm back with a forced registration ... I could well desire to return the program and to be working with a batch file (goes, unfortunately with bad software, which is understandable ..). Batch is a bit more effort, but if something goes wrong it is the one least blame themselves and, secondly, can it even addressed. Despite everything, I now would like to register but to (the strategy worked out well), but I'll let the future fingers Acronis away ...