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a simple registry cleaner isn't going to do the trick. I tried it anyway though and it didn't work.

i think my only option is a clean install. My recovery partition is trashed anyway. i just wish...

So i was following up on nitesh's question (which i assume was asking me the vss size via vssadmin. I'm not sure what you meant by "C: properties settings" thing) when i found something interesting....

Zach,

I followed the directions listed in your link for re-registering the vss. Some of the registration attempts failed.

regsvr32 /i eventcls.dll
regsvr32 es.dll
regsvr32 /i swprv.dll...

Thanks for the input. but, as stated before, I'm running vista premium and the provided Com+ rebuild steps do not apply.I haven't been able to find comparable instructions for Vista. It anyone knows...

Vista Premium is not auto-creating restore points.

In the event viewer, i get the following errors:

-Error 5/26/2008 3:10:54 PM System Restore 8193:
Failed to create restore point on volume...