Volume Shadow Copy Service?

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I'm seeing errors due to 'Volume Shadow Copy Service' in my Event
Viewer, Can someone please explain what this service does, and whether
I really need it enabled on a WinXP Home, standalone PC?

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Terry, West Sussex, UK

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"Ricky" <rsjoiner@no_spambellsouth.net> wrote:

>Some info here..
>http://www.theeldergeek.com/volume_shadow_copy.htm
>http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/library/TechRef/b45c7507-b7ad-420e-a981-c273c2012a83.mspx

Thank you. The second of those is certainly comprehensive, but can't
say I really understand it!

Bur I *think* it must be needed by my backup program, SecondCopy. At
least, when I disabled VSS, the icon for SecondCopy no longer appeared
in the system tray on boot up, so I re-enabled it and set it to manual
as suggested in the first of those sites.

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Terry, West Sussex, UK