Because Shadowprotect uses a method known as DCOM in order to connect to each Windows service it “manages” (and by manage I use that loosely until Version 4.0), the DCOM connection needs to time out before the connection fails as it were.
There is a solution to this, and that is to go to the registry (usual warning about backups first if you’re butter fingered) at this location:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ShadowStor\ShadowProtect\nodes
and to delete the value within the LastConnected REG_SZ key.
Just make sure Shadowprotect is shut down first, either gracefully or forced.
Tags: DCOM, Shadowprotect