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driver problems, not just application problems. You’ve got to keep in mind

all of these things as you approach troubleshooting a crash.

Here’s a typical scenario where you need to troubleshoot broadly first. If

you’re playing a graphically intensive game that happens to be huge and

takes up a lot of RAM, what could the problem be if the screen locks up and

Windows locks up too? It could be that the program ran a routine that clashed

with some other application or used a Windows feature improperly. It could

be that the video card was marginal and failed when taxed too much. It could

be that the system accessed a section of RAM that had gone bad.

In that same scenario, though, where the game runs but degrades the

overall performance of Windows, what could cause that problem? That points

more squarely at the application side of things rather than the hardware or

drivers, especially if the computer successfully runs other programs. The

bottom line with crash issues is to keep an open mind and not rule out

anything without testing it first.

Volume Shadow Copy Service and System

Protection

One of the big headaches to a failure with an application isn’t so much the

application itself but any data it may have corrupted. Sure, a good backup or

a restore point might save you, but these can be a hassle. Unless the data was

specifically saved (in the backup), there’s a chance you don’t have a backup

in the first place. Windows comes to your rescue with a feature called System

Protection.

This amazing feature is powered by Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS).

VSS enables the operating system to make backups of any file, even one that

is in use. Windows uses VSS for its System Protection feature, enabling you

to access previous versions of any data file or folder. Try right-clicking any

data file and selecting Restore previous versions, which opens the file’s

Properties dialog box with the Previous Versions tab displayed, as shown in

Figure 16-50.

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