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Where is the back up folder?

How to restore stuff from 'Backup' Folder after a factory reset?

  • This is a really quite urgent question, since if the answer is 'you can't' I've got till tomorrow to re-download/install everything. My PC crashed, quite badly, startup repairs and overheating and all sorts. I took it to a pc-repair shop for fixing, and they discovered it was too badly corrupt. So they needed to do a Factory Reset. They backed up all my stuff though, so that when I got it back it was back to normal. Now I've got my pc back, and it has a few programs (Microsoft word and suchlike) still installed regularly, and all the files on my desktop and in downloads/documents are still there. But my copies of other programs; Photoshop, Corel, Daz3D, Firefox, Chrome and games and everything else are gone. The Programs and Programsx86 are as basic and spartan as possible, presumably the 'factory reset'. Similarly the Start > Programs menu is bare of anything I added Using the 'Search Programs and Files' function in the Start Menu lets me FIND them, everything is in the Backup folder the technicians created. The exact location for my Adobe folder for example is. Desktop > Backup > ***(My Name, I'm thinking my User Account name) > AppData > Roaming > Adobe I've found the Appdata folder by viewing Hidden files, so I can now reach each folder manually, but there don't seem to be any .exe files anymore, I mean, I can't -run- anything anymore. http://i.imgur.com/A7Vhr.png is a screenshot of the Appdata folder. I 'guess' all I have to do is Cut and Paste the the folders somewhere, but I don't know where to put what, and I don't want to do something wrong. Please help! Roaming seems to contain all the folders that 'were' in Programs before, but I have no idea in all honesty.

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    You can't reinstall programs unless you have the exe files, which is very unlikely as most people just run the setup files rather than save them first. Whenever I download a software I always click save rather than run, If I get the option.

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OK, you cant just cut and paste the old program files from your applications and run them. You need to reinstall all the applications from scratch into your clean reinstalled OS. This means getting hold of all your original setup disks or re-downloading the applications whichever is required. Good Luck

andrew c

A factory reset takes your computer back to when it was first bought so any subsequent programs that you had will have to be d/loaded or reinstalled from disc etc. unless you have a program (such as Norton Ghost) which takes a snapshot of your whole computer and saves it to an external medium such as an external drive and then you can reinstall your computer as it was before the fault occurred.

Ian r

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