Vista - System Protection Service for VSS and System Restore

I there a service for activating or deactivating the System Protection that
controls the VSS and the System Restore options? Or are there certain DLLs
that control it, that maybe could be deactivated or activated by third party
software?
At least in XP we get customers who have system restore deactivated and
can't turn it on. Would like to prevent this.

Getting system restore going again in Vista sometimes requires manually
setting a new restore point (priming the pump as it were).

"Sal of Dell" <Sal of Dell@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I there a service for activating or deactivating the System Protection that
> controls the VSS and the System Restore options? Or are there certain DLLs
> that control it, that maybe could be deactivated or activated by third
> party
> software?
> At least in XP we get customers who have system restore deactivated and
> can't turn it on. Would like to prevent this.

So is there a service for either the System Restore or the System Protection?

"Colin Barnhorst" wrote:

> Getting system restore going again in Vista sometimes requires manually
> setting a new restore point (priming the pump as it were).
>
> "Sal of Dell" <Sal of Dell@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:A6DE9F27-E55C-49A7-98A8-36EF39E40DD9@microsoft.com...
> >I there a service for activating or deactivating the System Protection that
> > controls the VSS and the System Restore options? Or are there certain DLLs
> > that control it, that maybe could be deactivated or activated by third
> > party
> > software?
> > At least in XP we get customers who have system restore deactivated and
> > can't turn it on. Would like to prevent this.
>
>

System restore points are set using snapshots taken by the VSS driver,
volsnap.sys. Volsnap.sys takes the snapshots needed for previous versions
(Windows Shadow Copies) as well and the other backup tools in Vista. There
is a Volume Shadow Copy service (see in Computer/Manage). I don't know what
you mean by 'System Protection."

"Sal of Dell" <SalofDell@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> So is there a service for either the System Restore or the System
> Protection?
>
> "Colin Barnhorst" wrote:
>
>> Getting system restore going again in Vista sometimes requires manually
>> setting a new restore point (priming the pump as it were).
>>
>> "Sal of Dell" <Sal of Dell@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:A6DE9F27-E55C-49A7-98A8-36EF39E40DD9@microsoft.com...
>> >I there a service for activating or deactivating the System Protection
>> >that
>> > controls the VSS and the System Restore options? Or are there certain
>> > DLLs
>> > that control it, that maybe could be deactivated or activated by third
>> > party
>> > software?
>> > At least in XP we get customers who have system restore deactivated and
>> > can't turn it on. Would like to prevent this.
>>
>>

"System Protection" is the actual name of the tab used
under "System Properties". That is why probably calls
it that. That tab used to be named "System Restore"
in XP. I reckon, that was just too easy to keep that
same name, someone had to make it sound more important.


-Michael

"Colin Barnhorst" <colinbarharst@msn.com> wrote in message
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> System restore points are set using snapshots taken by the VSS driver, volsnap.sys.
> Volsnap.sys takes the snapshots needed for previous versions (Windows Shadow Copies) as well
> and the other backup tools in Vista. There is a Volume Shadow Copy service (see in
> Computer/Manage). I don't know what you mean by 'System Protection."
>
> "Sal of Dell" <SalofDell@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news10B3B4E-3EDC-424D-92D9-E317EA530D81@microsoft.com...
>> So is there a service for either the System Restore or the System Protection?
>>
>> "Colin Barnhorst" wrote:
>>
>>> Getting system restore going again in Vista sometimes requires manually
>>> setting a new restore point (priming the pump as it were).
>>>
>>> "Sal of Dell" <Sal of Dell@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>>> news:A6DE9F27-E55C-49A7-98A8-36EF39E40DD9@microsoft.com...
>>> >I there a service for activating or deactivating the System Protection that
>>> > controls the VSS and the System Restore options? Or are there certain DLLs
>>> > that control it, that maybe could be deactivated or activated by third
>>> > party
>>> > software?
>>> > At least in XP we get customers who have system restore deactivated and
>>> > can't turn it on. Would like to prevent this.
>>>
>>>
>

I see. Well at least they didn't call it My Protection. That would be way
too personal.

"MICHAEL" <u158627_emr@dslr.net> wrote in message
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> "System Protection" is the actual name of the tab used
> under "System Properties". That is why probably calls
> it that. That tab used to be named "System Restore"
> in XP. I reckon, that was just too easy to keep that
> same name, someone had to make it sound more important.
>
>