In all fairness, the program did register without problem after a couple steps, but when I tried to use the same serial number on a second computer, that’s where the too many licenses error came up. Had to use a second email for the wife to get the program registered on her computer.
My problem after running the program may be more from my ignorance, but have always used clones, not backups. Still stuck mentally in the days when a backup saved your pictures and documents but nothing else.
So with a full backup capability, we supposedly have a compressed image that could be used in a complete hard drive melt down. After running a full backup on a stock win 11 Dell, laptop, the program verified that the backup was complete with the fine print warning that about 2000 files were skipped. I threw this scenario to AI and got back what I had suspected. It’s a crap shoot as to whether the image will work depending on what was skipped. Was it critical system files, some documents, software activation files?
For me, not worth the risk of having to find out the backup is useless when needed. I’ll stick to the old school trusty clone method for now. Thanks for the offering though. I don’t know whether the ignored files were a flaw in the program or something fragile in the backup process no matter what software you are using.