Viz Vista by Ed Tittel

This looked just plain weird to me. When I checked Reliability Monitor and the installation of the generic volume shadow copy devices I couldn't make out a pattern even though it was there to be found. I even posted queries about this to vistaforums.com, techsupportforum.com, and to Microsoft Tech Support, but it took a Facebook email to one of the demiurges in the Windows pantheon--namely, Mark Russinovich--to get to the bottom of the matter (more on this to follow at the end of this story).