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VSS - SOLVED
« on: August 19, 2015, 08:04:26 am »
I've run the latest version of tweaking.com and am getting numerous VSS errors. The even reviewer message states that "A critical component required by the Volume Shadow Copy service is not registered. This might happen if an error occurred during Windows setup or during installation of a Shadow Copy provider."  Any advice or help would be highly valued.
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Re: VSS
« Reply #1 on: August 19, 2015, 12:05:15 pm »
open cmd in an elevated admin level and type in
Code: [Select]
vssadmin list providers then i want you to post me the results so i can see what its saying.

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Re: VSS
« Reply #2 on: August 20, 2015, 12:38:28 am »
I havent seen that error after the repairs before. Can you copy and paste the error from the event viewer? Also having some info would be helpful, like what version of windows :-)

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Re: VSS
« Reply #3 on: August 20, 2015, 10:05:44 am »
Most sincere thanks for response. I'm running Windows 7. Attached are screenshots of the errors:

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Re: VSS
« Reply #4 on: August 20, 2015, 10:13:15 am »
Hi Julian. Thank you for looking into this. Attached is a screenshot after following the instructions you suggested. Sincere thanks

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Re: VSS
« Reply #5 on: August 20, 2015, 01:06:05 pm »
hmmm Symantec is on there for making it's own restore points as well do you have Norton anti virus?I wonder if you go into safe mode turn off system restore then turn it back on if it will fix your error. (when doing so it will remove all previous restore points.)
 Or if you did a repair install on Norton it may fix it. because if it's Norton's dll's then when you repair install they may re register them
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Re: VSS SOLVED
« Reply #6 on: August 22, 2015, 05:18:31 am »
Hi Julian, your suggestion seems to have fixed the problem. Most sincere thanks for your help!

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Re: VSS
« Reply #7 on: August 23, 2015, 07:45:38 pm »
awesome which one was it turning off system restore and turning it back on or was it repairing Norton's install?
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Re: VSS
« Reply #8 on: August 23, 2015, 09:42:41 pm »
Hi Julian, it was the Norton part; uninstalling and reinstalling Norton. Sincere thanks for your care and help, stephen

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Re: VSS
« Reply #9 on: August 24, 2015, 09:39:03 am »
No problem I'm glad to have helped if you need any help on anything just post a thread about it. Oh can you mark this thread solved just go to the original post and modify and check solved and change the subject by adding (Solved) to it ;)
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