xp pro

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frank stokes

I recently did a full install of my xp pro over the
existing installation. I didn't realize that it would
wipe out everything. Is there any way I can recover all
of my programs that I had installed prior to the new full
reinstallation that I did? I did not have a backup of my
system. Any help greatly appreciated
 
The programs should still be there, under c:\program files, respecitively,
just there will be no start menu items. You could create these manually, by
creating a shortcut and moving it to the start menu.
As for recovering them i'm not too sure from the top of my head how this can
be done.
 
You might be able to do as Stuart said with some programs,
but the clean install will have wiped out all the registry
keys for most of the programs. You have a long road ahead
of you if you need any of the data from those programs as
you'll need to reinstall them then replacce all the new
data stores with the old ones. I'd recommend cutting your
losses and starting over as this process can taske many,
many, many hours. Remember, backup!
 
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