Operation Manual

Protected partitions

To change this setting:

1. Click the partition letter next to the setting name. The Partition Selection window opens.

2. Select the partitions that you want to protect, and then click OK.

By default, Try&Decide protects the system partition (Disk C), though you may choose to protect

any other partitions in your system.

Storage for virtual changes

To change this setting:

1. Click the partition letter next to the setting name. The Storage for Virtual Changes window

opens.

2. Select the partition that you want to use as a storage for virtual changes, and then click OK.

By default, Try&Decide saves the information to a free space on Disk C. You can also choose as

such place Acronis Secure Zone or another logical disk or hard drive.

When choosing to protect more than one partition, you cannot select one of the partitions to be protected to

store virtual changes. In addition, you cannot select an external hard disk drive.

Notifications

To change the default notification settings, click Change alert settings. The Settings window opens.

 On free disk space remaining - If the amount of free space in the storage for virtual changes

becomes less than the specified value, the program displays a notification message.

 On time elapsed since Try&Decide started - The program will notify you if Try&Decide has been

working for longer than the period of time that you specified.

11.3.3 Try&Decide: typical use cases

The Try&Decide feature can help you in various circumstances, for example:

Software evaluation

Sometimes it may be useful to turn on the Try mode before installing new software. For example, we

recommend that you turn it on when you want to:

 Choose antivirus software.

There are known cases when installation of antivirus software cripples functionality of some

applications or they may even refuse to launch after antivirus installation. You can test a trial

version of the antivirus. If you encounter any problems, discard the changes in your system and

try antivirus software from another vendor.

 Install a trial version of a program.

It is well known that the "Add or Remove Programs" component of the Windows Control Panel

cannot give a complete guarantee of cleanly uninstalling applications. If you do not like the

program that you installed, discard the changes in your system. In this case, you can be sure that

Try&Decide removed the program without a trace.

 Install suspicious software.