As a technical professional, my data is far more important than my computer. So I need to have my data backed up and readily accessible in case of a system failure. My application also need to be secure. Many of my applications are downloaded from the web and are not easily restored. This makes a tool like Acronis True Image such an important part of my business because it saves me so much headache and pain when a disaster does occur. On that note, here are the 14 reasons why you should consider True Image 11 Home purchase for your home computer:

1. You can backup your entire pc including the OS, applications and data. You can restore the system to a new hard drive without the need to install any of the applications. All of your applications and data will be restored!
2. if you wish, you can backup just the files you want such as photos, documents, videos etc. Its that flexible.
3. When you do a restore all of your settings for your applications and profiles with be restore as they were.
4. You can run a special session on your PC that enables you to install software on your computer in a protected area. This allows you to uninstall it without any harm to your computer.
5. True Image 11 home has a tools that will allow you to securely delete sensitive data so that it can not be recovered by prying eyes. True Image also allows you  to clean up unwanted files that are just taking up space.
6. You can restore you computer while your use it for other tasks.  Say for instance, you lost your photos of roughly 30Gig. This process could take a long time. You can continue working on your machine with documents, browsing the web, etc. while Acronis restores your data.
7. You can save an image of your entire pc to a hidden image on your hard drive so that you can restore your pc quickly in the case of a virus infection that causes you pc to crash. The beauty of the this hidden partition is that it is an image of your last backup which could restore all of your applications and data! It would be as if your computer had never been destroyed by a virus! You could be up in a matter of minutes instead of days.
8. Acronis True Image 11 Home provides an easy to use recovery manager. Just hit the F11 key when the computer is booting up and it will restore your computer image made to the hidden partition in #7 above.
9. When you backup your computer your can also tell the acronis software to exclude files from the backup. You only backup what you want to keep. 
10. You can backup your machine faster by backing up only the files that have changed or added since the last backup.  A 2 hour backup could be reduced to 2 minutes!
11. You don't have to stop working during a backup. Acronis can backup your computer while you work.
12. You can schedule backups to happen on several events: startup, shutdown, logon, logoff, 3am, etc
13. Acronis supports the latest hardware and software:
    1. Supports Microsoft Windows Vista™
    2. Supports 64-bit CPUs
14. Acronis True Image 11 home supports backup  to ftp sites and email notifications of backup processes.

If you are in need of consulting services to configure a backup environment for computers just contact Olan at Kansas City Computer Repair