| Subject | French | English |
| comp., MS | enregistreur VSS | VSS writer (A component within an application that interfaces with the VSS platform infrastructure during backups to ensure that application data is ready for shadow copy creation) |
| comp., MS | enregistreur VSS express | VSS express writer (A scheme for applications to only identify their components requiring to be backed up without the necessity of creating a full VSS writer) |
| comp., MS | Service VSS | Volume Shadow Copy Service (A Windows Server 2003 technology that supports creation of single point-in-time shadow copies - also known as snapshots - of single or multiple volumes without impacting file server performance. Volume Shadow Copy Service also supports backups of open files) |