There really is no point to backing up the program files directory by
itself, who said there was?
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"bilvihur" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Does everyone keep a handwritten list of all appls in the program files
> directory just to recovery their system? What's the purpose of backing up
> program files in the first place? Thanks.
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> "David B." wrote:
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>> You need to reinstall your applications, you can't just copy the program
>> directory from a backup.
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>> >I couldn't boot, and the Emachine rep talked me thru a reinstall (with
>> > backup) of Vista Basic from the recovery partition. I was able to
>> > recover
>> > most data, but the Backup Programs won't execute after I moved them to
>> > Vista
>> > Program Files folder (registry/DLL errors). Do I have to delete them
>> > from
>> > Vista, and download/reinstall them again? Also, I haven't been able to
>> > find
>> > my email files. Appreciate any help. Thanks. PS Is there any
>> > documentation
>> > out there which I can print and refer to WHEN this happens again?
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