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Run Acronis True Image Home 2011 as Administrator to be able to use all program functions

This article applies to:

• Acronis True Image Home 2011

Symptoms

1. You try to start Acronis True Image Home 2011 and receive the following error:

   Insufficient privileges. You do not have enough privileges to get full access to all Acronis True Image Home functionality.

   

2. You create a scheduled backup task in Acronis True Image Home 2011. When you press Back up now or Later to finish backup creation, you receive the following error message:

   Modification has failed. No task to modify.

   

   If you press Ignore and restart Acronis True Image Home 2011, the scheduled backup task appears in My backups list.

Cause

Current user does not have enough privileges to get access to all program functions. The current product design is that in order to have complete access to all functions, you should run the program from the account that belongs to Administrators group.

Solution

Make sure that the user under which you are trying to run Acronis True Image Home 2011 is a member of the Administrators group:

1. Click Start ->Run;
2. Type in compmgmt.msc and hit Enter;

   

3. In the Computer Management window click Local Users and Groups -> Users;

   

4. Right-click the user under which you are trying to run the task and select Properties. Click the Member Of tab. The Administrators group should be in the Member of list;

   

5. If the user account is not a member of the Administrators group, add the account to the group:
   1. On the Member Of tab, click Add;
   2. In the Select Groups window type in Administrators and click Check Names:

      

   3. Click OK.

(!) If you do not have enabled Local User and Groups, you can run the product as Administrator: right-click on the product link or shortcut and select Run as administrator.

More information

Please contact Acronis Customer Central if you need assistance.