This tool was designed to offer assistance when the Volume Shadow Copy Service fails to run. It has been incorporated into Windows Repair but can still be run on its own if needed.

Tweaking.com - Repair Volume Shadow Copy Service will register the volume shadow copy files, once you have run the tool, you will need to reboot the system.



The following are symptoms of a Volume Shadow Copy malfunction:

-Very long (or seemingly forever) VSS snapshot generation time with intensive hard drive activity.
-VSS errors reported in the Event Viewer.
-VSS errors reported by Microsoft's Volume Shadow Copy tool vssadmin.
-VSS fails to create snapshots.

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