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I'm guessing that the Window 7 Pro built in backup program sets its program priority very high. Windows 7 bogs down while the backup is running. CPU meters do not sure extremely high usage. So that leaves us some sort of a Priority issue.

Anyone changed the settings on this? I do like the win 7 pro Backup utility, since a) it backs up to my network drives, b) it makes a disk image for easy catastrophic restore, c) and it's free/included.

Any help from the Pelican trust? I dug through the Microsoft database and didn't find my issue. The topics I found are extremely long back-ups or general slow Win 7. Neither of these are the issue.

The backup doesn't take very long (20-25 minutes for 120MB primary SSD drive), but the computer (6 Core AMD, 16GB RAM) slows down and trying to do other tasks. Even web-browsing is quite frustrating.