Acronis True Image Active Protection slows loading time!

[vmounier 4]

I just had a revelation! Some of my scenery installs were stalling and looking at the Task Manager I noticed the process was suspended. I did a bit of research and found this could be due to some AV or firewall protection so I disabled everything in BitDefender, without success. Then I remembered Acronis was installed although I don't use it, and I checked that. Active Protection, a ransomware protection feature, was turned on. I turned it off and... wow!

Not only are my installations completing, I think they are faster (but that could be a bit subjective). What is very real is that the sim itself (v5) now loads five to ten times faster! There isn't a huge difference from start to the Scenario screen, but from there to playable, what a difference! I used to hang at 5% sometimes for minutes, and then slow down again considerably around 60 to 80%, depending on the location. I now have a full load under 45 seconds regardless of where I am! I am ecstatic. Give this a try if you have Active Protection on!

[Alti 65]

TURN IT OFF!
You can get Problems with so much installers, that not work with this security from Acronis.
Acronis is good for Backup, for security it is very bad!

 

[Anteater 4]

I turned it off within hours of installing for the same reason. 

[AnkH 2,260]

I turned it off, but the service is still running if I open the task manager, even after several restarts. How I hate such stupid softwares...

[newtie 533]

Chris-

You should be able to stop that service under Win + R > services.msc

[vgbaron 3,586]

I use Acronis for backup but I disabled all their services. When I need to backup,Acronis will ask to enable the services it needs - when it's done, I just disable them again. Not really time consuming.

 

Vic

[vmounier 4]

Good thinking you all, I just checked and indeed found services still running. All set to manual now!