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I'm afraid you might indeed be wrong... "snapman.sys" is installed as part of Acronis True Image and I think Disk Director as well. It is reported to not be a default system file. Doing a simple search on Google for "snapman.sys" will give you more than ample information which not only confirms that this is an Acronis file only but how to remove it in various ways. IF <--- you choose to remove it by a method other than what I posted above, which is a tried and true method, you are on your own as far as what results you may get; good or bad.
Jeff
simul iustus et peccator

Many apologies, I had TI and Disk Director installed some time ago and uninstalled them then forgot about them.
I carried out the steps in Acronis uninstall post in your link with what was left over from the uninstallation but that did not work, so I restored my Macruim images of the initial install of Vista, that is, only the very essential files / programs and hardware then I activated it and made the images and then I install all my programs.

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