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Mar 21, 2008 | 10:27 am

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Originally Posted by birdstrike

I'm confused. The first thing I did with my SZ was to remove all the crap, install all of the programs I wanted, then used the Vista backup feature to create a restore image for the hard drive at that point in time.

That's a restore image, and not the same as a clean install disk. With clean install disks, you can repair Vista if individual files get corrupted. You can't do that with a backup restore -- it will just take you back in time to the point where you made the restore.

I have, conservatively, 40 or 50 programs installed on my laptop. I don't want to have re-install all of them if something goes awry in Vista (and it has in the past).

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