To make life easier, you can create a folder in C:\ and name it
John’s Documents. Then move everything you want from the above 2 folders to the new one.

My version of XP automatically reset the “My Documents” link from the above 2 folders to the one C:\Steve’s Docs.

YOU ARE MAKING TOO MUCH SENSE!

Lots that needed saying. Good for you.

- Large ZIP archives can be split, and the extensions are Z01, Z02, … and so on. So this is no a proprietary format but the standard ZIP zplitting. You can browse these files and extract from them with any zip program ( WinZIP ).

- Intalling and activating the program now, allows you to make any future updates. So for example when release 2.2 is available you can safely install that one too without the need to re-register.

There’re so many senseless, inaccurate, and duplicate comments today, it’s just ridiculous.

For the numerous posters who were afraid to install this for fear of losing their previous Titan Backup settings, use some common sense. Does it make sense for a company (other than Microsoft) which produces backup software to tell you about a new version, and then have the update destroy your previous settings? Does it make sense to uninstall the previous version and risk losing your registration and settings? Use your brain.

For the people comparing this to Windows Backup, there’s no comparison. Windows Backup has almost zero features, and doesn’t backup Windows.

For the people comparing this to image backup applications, as myself and many others have noted, the products serve different functions. #71 and #73, mike, your comments are absolutely incorrect, as usual. Some imaging products can retrieve individual files easily. Titan Backup isn’t designed to, nor is it capable of, backing up and restoring Windows. It’s specifically designed to backup user data and certain user settings. I’m not going to go into the endless issues related to backing up and restoring XP and Vista. Some of the the things which a user-data backup product like Titan Backup doesn’t generally handle include the master boot record, file placement, access control lists, alternate data streams, file attributes, and on and on. #58, G, this doesn’t make boot disks or use proprietary formats. #66, Skeptyc, no point in cluttering the comments by copying an obsolete review which someone else linked way back at the top of the comments.

One of the useful features of Titan Backup which no one has mentioned is its ability to backup to multiple drives/partitions. This is handy, if, for example, you plug in multiple low-capacity external USB drives to backup onto.

Self-extracting archives are generally a bad idea, as Windows has a 4GB executable size limit. The open-source 7-Zip can show you the contents of a self-extracting archive without extracting the files.

Some people complained about proprietary extensions on data backed up to CD/DVD. Since I don’t use that feature, I can’t say for sure, but it was probably enumerating the pieces of a .zip archive which was split across multiple CDs/DVDs (in which case, you can just do a binary data append–even the ancient DOS/Windows Copy command, via the command prompt, will do that). Even if it does split unarchived files using proprietary extensions, you can just download and keep a copy of Titan Backup. Even without registration information (which you could keep), it functions as a 15-day trial, so you can always restore your data.

For backing up settings related to a number of specific applications, use the Email and User Settings buttons. As Universal Cynic mentioned, that’s where your browser settings are (easier than digging through the folder tree).

#93, John, the Documents folder is in different places in XP and Vista, but I think they both generally start with C:\Users\username (dig through the folder tree–it should be easy to find). In Vista it’s generally C:\Users\username\Documents, and if I recall correctly, I think its generally in C:\Users\username\Documents and Settings\My Documents in XP.

#95, Judy, yes, Titan Backup will work without the .Net framework. However, many things in Vista aren’t going to work without it. Download and reinstall the relevant version(s).

Check out this link ( copy & paste it ) regarding Version 8 being free http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-drive-imaging-program.htm

As you will find, the offer has now expired, however, by doing a google search ( as I have done before ), there are free offers available for version 8 from time to time. You will not find the offer on the Acronis web site. Persevere and you will get it free.

Good luck.

So this experience with titan backup installing and registering turned out VASTLY SUPERIOR to my last frustrating experience when the prog never was able to recognize itself as registered from day 1 no matter what!

Thanks GAOTD and thanks to the developer of Titan Backup for making the program able to successfully register and recognize the serial this time around!