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Willy2:
- Thanks. Your reply gives some important clues. I have helped Shane to improve the program and some bugs were language related.

- So, WR (Windows Repair) does something that SPSS doesn't like. I assume re-installing SPSS goes "a bit too far".
- VSS is abbreviation for Volume Shadow Copy Service. (Repair # 19). "Beta Repairs" tries (!!!) to repair the "System Restore Point" mechanism and can be found in the right hand bottom corner of the main repair screen.
-Yes, try if removing that program (with REVO Unistaller) would improve/solve the situation. REVO also scans the registry for remnants.

ftr:

--- Quote from: Willy2 on May 04, 2016, 11:41:52 am ---- Thanks. Your reply gives some important clues. I have helped Shane to improve the program and some bugs were language related.

- So, WR (Windows Repair) does something that SPSS doesn't like. I assume re-installing SPSS goes "a bit too far".

I have the original SPSS install dvd. The difficulty with SPSS is that once installed you have to register the program on the site www.spss.com - but the site does not exist any longer. And without registering the program does not work. SPSS was bought by IBM and IBM changed the site's name. So, when I tried to register on a new computer the program looked for the original site and as it does not exist any longer, the installation did not work.
So, I have a industry-level program that costed 4000 € and that is central to my professional work which opens sometimes, but not always, its data and the syntax file! . It's completely crazy.

Can you see where the SPSS installation was touched ? And is it possible to undo the repair ?

- VSS is abbreviation for Volume Shadow Copy Service. (Repair # 19). "Beta Repairs" tries (!!!) to repair the "System Restore Point" mechanism and can be found in the right hand bottom corner of the main repair screen.

I thought to have seen that there was a positive answer saying that the system restore had been repaired.

-Yes, try if removing that program (with REVO Unistaller) would improve/solve the situation. REVO also scans the registry for remnants.

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Which program ?

I use Revo Uninstaller Pro, and it is one of the goodies.

Willy2:
- I mean, remove the Disk Optimizer program with REVO.
- Before you ran Windows Repair, did you make a backup of the registry with the program that comes with WR ? (I recommend to install the stand alone version as well. A LOT OF problems are caused by the registry). Perhaps restoring the old registry will help to "repair" SPSS again. SPSS could be storing a number of things in the registry. In the registry also info on the Volume Shadow Copy is stored.
- Don't you have a registration code for SPSS ? Or a confirmation email ? Or something like that ?

- Did you use a previous version of WR in the past ? Did SPSS "survive" that repair ?

- Try this program to fix VSS (almost the same code is contained in WR)
http://kb.macrium.com/knowledgebasearticle50010.aspx
- The weblink above does make another question surface: Windows Vista should have a file called "stdprov.dll". Is that file in the "c:\windows\system32" or in the "c:\windows\system32\wbem" folder ?

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