And I am seeing errors in the event viewer that restore points could not be
made by program installers. System restore directory is not read only. I
found this in the event viewer as well:

Log Name: Application
Source: VSS
Date: 7/11/2007 10:22:21 AM
Event ID: 8193
Task Category: None
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: James-PC
Description:
Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Unexpected error calling routine
CoCreateInstance. hr = 0x80040154.

Operation:
Instantiating VSS server
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
<Provider Name="VSS" />
<EventID Qualifiers="0">8193</EventID>
<Level>2</Level>
<Task>0</Task>
<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2007-07-11T15:22:21.000Z" />
<EventRecordID>466</EventRecordID>
<Channel>Application</Channel>
<Computer>James-PC</Computer>
<Security />
</System>
<EventData>
<Data>CoCreateInstance</Data>
<Data>0x80040154</Data>
<Data>

Operation:
Instantiating VSS server</Data>

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</EventData>
</Event>

Hi,

See if any of this information helps.
Error message created by System Restore in Windows Vista:
[url]http://bertk.mvps.org/html/eerrormsgsv.html#5[/url]

Regards,
Bert Kinney MS-MVP Shell/User
[url]http://bertk.mvps.org[/url]
Member: [url]http://dts-l.org[/url]

jgentile wrote:[color=blue]
> And I am seeing errors in the event viewer that restore points could not be
> made by program installers. System restore directory is not read only. I
> found this in the event viewer as well:
>
> Log Name: Application
> Source: VSS
> Date: 7/11/2007 10:22:21 AM
> Event ID: 8193
> Task Category: None
> Level: Error
> Keywords: Classic
> User: N/A
> Computer: James-PC
> Description:
> Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Unexpected error calling routine
> CoCreateInstance. hr = 0x80040154.
>
> Operation:
> Instantiating VSS server
> Event Xml:
> <Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
> <System>
> <Provider Name="VSS" />
> <EventID Qualifiers="0">8193</EventID>
> <Level>2</Level>
> <Task>0</Task>
> <Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
> <TimeCreated SystemTime="2007-07-11T15:22:21.000Z" />
> <EventRecordID>466</EventRecordID>
> <Channel>Application</Channel>
> <Computer>James-PC</Computer>
> <Security />
> </System>
> <EventData>
> <Data>CoCreateInstance</Data>
> <Data>0x80040154</Data>
> <Data>
>
> Operation:
> Instantiating VSS server</Data>
>
> <Binary>2D20436F64653A2042554543584D4C4330303030343236392D2043616C6C3A2042554543584D4C4330303030343233382D205049443A202030303030323439362D205449443A202030303030333037362D20434D443A202022433A5C57696E646F77735C537973574F5736345C636C65616E6D67722E657865222020202020202D20557365723A204A616D65732D50435C4A616D657320202D205369643A2020532D312D352D32312D323038303934333336382D313238393933323631342D323331383232313838302D313030302020</Binary>
> </EventData>
> </Event>[/color]