Vista - Shadow Copies (Previous versions) of files do not work?

Hi everybody! Just another one problem and question if I do everything
correctly or no.

I've read a lot about the so-called Shadow Copies (previous versions) od
files, documents etc. But I can't figure out how to make it fork on my
system.

Here is my situation: I use Vista Ultimate Russian so function should work
for this version of Windows. I have some Excel file that I work with every
day making some everyday changes to it. It's located inside subfolder in My
Documents folder.

I've enabled Automatic restore points for both my logical drives.

BUT when I go to properties of my Excel file and select the tab Previous
Versions it says me that there is NO previous versions for this file. For
several months I work with this file every day changing it but it never
showed me any previous versions. I specially played with other files testing
the feature but also no success.

The system restore function itself works well.

"Alexander" <al_butenko_n_o_s_p_a_m@mail.ru> wrote in message
news:B3EA896E-0C5A-4A6D-82AB-95E6B926DAF4@microsoft.com...
> Hi everybody! Just another one problem and question if I do everything
> correctly or no.
>
> I've read a lot about the so-called Shadow Copies (previous versions) od
> files, documents etc. But I can't figure out how to make it fork on my
> system.
>
> Here is my situation: I use Vista Ultimate Russian so function should
> work for this version of Windows. I have some Excel file that I work with
> every day making some everyday changes to it. It's located inside
> subfolder in My Documents folder.
>
> I've enabled Automatic restore points for both my logical drives.
>
> BUT when I go to properties of my Excel file and select the tab Previous
> Versions it says me that there is NO previous versions for this file. For
> several months I work with this file every day changing it but it never
> showed me any previous versions. I specially played with other files
> testing the feature but also no success.
>
> The system restore function itself works well.


Are you dual booting with XP?

Lang

Hi! No. As I've said I have no problems with system restore in general (if I
dual-boot system restore won't work as it's described in help) but I don't
use XP.

May be this matters - when I first installed Vista it was dual-boot but then
I removed XP and reformatted XP's volume so now I don't have dual-boot. And
once again System Restore works Ok but Shadow Copies simply don't work...

"Lang Murphy" <lang_murphy@hotmail.com> ÓÏÏÂÝÉÌ/ÓÏÏÂÝÉÌÁ × ÎÏ×ÏÓÔÑÈ
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> "Alexander" <al_butenko_n_o_s_p_a_m@mail.ru> wrote in message
> news:B3EA896E-0C5A-4A6D-82AB-95E6B926DAF4@microsoft.com...
>> Hi everybody! Just another one problem and question if I do everything
>> correctly or no.
>>
>> I've read a lot about the so-called Shadow Copies (previous versions) od
>> files, documents etc. But I can't figure out how to make it fork on my
>> system.
>>
>> Here is my situation: I use Vista Ultimate Russian so function should
>> work for this version of Windows. I have some Excel file that I work with
>> every day making some everyday changes to it. It's located inside
>> subfolder in My Documents folder.
>>
>> I've enabled Automatic restore points for both my logical drives.
>>
>> BUT when I go to properties of my Excel file and select the tab Previous
>> Versions it says me that there is NO previous versions for this file. For
>> several months I work with this file every day changing it but it never
>> showed me any previous versions. I specially played with other files
>> testing the feature but also no success.
>>
>> The system restore function itself works well.
>
>
> Are you dual booting with XP?
>
> Lang