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Old March 16th 17, 05:09 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
Paul[_32_]
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Ken Springer wrote:
On 3/13/17 9:24 AM, Paul wrote:
Ken Springer wrote:
On 3/12/17 5:30 PM, Paul in Houston TX wrote:
Ken Springer wrote:


In the one I'm working with, doing the W7 Backup and Restore program to
do a system image, crashed every time. It couldn't get a "lock" on the
EFI(?) partition. A very much, much smarter coworker discovered some
service was turned off. (A situation that makes no sense to me for a
computer that's "out of the box".) He turned it on, and then it worked.


That sounds like VSS (Volume Shadow Service), something that a lot
of backup programs need. It allows you to backup C: "hot", without
having to reboot like you used to do with the old Ghost design.


Sorry for the late reply, Paul.

The VSS service was set to Manual. Once set to Automatic, it worked fine.

We will check the other 2 for this same problem.

It would seem strange this would be the default setting for a W8 system
that has been reset to an out of the box state. Maybe MS figures a Home
user will be too ignorant to want to do a W7 System Image.


Some services are started on-demand. But I don't know the
details of all the ones fitting that category. For example,
some TrustedInstaller thing used to write to Program Files or
to the System32 folder during a Windows Update, that is
probably started manually. And it exits after a few mintes
of being idle later. Not every service has to remain running,
as long as there is a "boss task" to switch them on when
they are needed.

Paul
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