devices and Printers window loads real slow in windows 8.1

Anonymous
2013-12-21T07:18:42+00:00

devices and Printers window loads real slow in windows 8.1 and loads fast in windows 7 both are on the same computer as a dual boot system

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  1. Anonymous
    2015-05-19T20:44:36+00:00

    Dillon_642.   Interesting but I have a horrible delay accessing devices and printers and I've never had shadow copies turned on for any of my drives.

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-05-19T20:57:13+00:00

    File history, backup, system restore, SQL Server all use the volume shadow copy service.

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-05-19T21:10:41+00:00

    where would shadow copies for other than file history show up?

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  4. Anonymous
    2015-05-19T21:18:58+00:00

    Actually I see it now running vssadmin list shadowstorage. 

    I've got hundreds of gigabytes of shadow copies.  I guess it must be from running windows backup.  So is it safe to delete that stuff?

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  5. Anonymous
    2015-05-19T21:41:06+00:00

    It's not the actual VSS storage that's slowing things down but the registry entries that get created every time a VSS volume is attached but are not deleted when it is removed, leaving behind thousands of ghost (greyed out) "generic volume shadow copy" device entries in the "storage volume shadow copies" class.

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