I would rather they just strip it down to the bare minimum and if I like the program, I might be interested in purchasing the more feature-full version. It’s not a major nuisance, but it’s slightly annoying.

The only annoying thing about the program is that it includes all the features from the commercial version too and when you try to use one of them, it will try to upsell you the paid version of the program. – Restore an entire image or only certain files and folders from an image – Linux and WinPE bootable recovery media options – Unique backup capsule feature that lets you store the backup on a local hard disk in a hidden partition for easy recovery if they active partition fails I believe Paragon is the only freeware one I mention here that supports differential backups. – Differential backups so that you can create one full image and then save space on future backups. – Complete disk backup including GPT disks Here’s a list of features that make Paragon one of the best freeware utilities in this category. It’s been around for a very long time and therefore the software is polished and works perfectly on all versions of Windows from Windows 2000 to Windows 8.1 32-bit or 64-bit.

It has a slew of features and is very reliable. Paragon Backup & Recovery is one of my favorite tools for backing up and restoring hard drives at home.

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