Hey everyone!

Yesterday, Alcohol (the application) bummed up my Windows Vista so badly
that I simply had to reinstall everything. Now since I ended up with a
Windows.old folder containing everything from my previous Vista installation,
I was hoping that I could somehow use this to e.g. recover my Sidebar and the
way I had configured how I want Vista to look (you know with font types and
how transparent the windows are etc). But I'm not sure how I do it?

So far I've only copied the User-folder from Windows.old to C: - overwriting
all files that could be overwritten. I hope that was OK to do?
You'd think that the built-in recovery application would be able to take
care of this, but apparently not.

Any and all help is much appreciated. I'd rather not sit here for like an
hour or two while manually trying to get everything back to normal!
Thanks.

Hello ConraDargo,

These two Microsoft KB articles may be helpful for you.

'How to restore your personal files after you perform a custom
installation of Windows Vista' (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/932912)

and

'How to restore a computer to a previous Windows installation after you
install Windows Vista' (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/933168)

Hope this helps,
Shawn

ConraDargo;872968 Wrote:
Hey everyone!

Yesterday, Alcohol (the application) bummed up my Windows Vista so
badly
that I simply had to reinstall everything. Now since I ended up with a
Windows.old folder containing everything from my previous Vista
installation,
I was hoping that I could somehow use this to e.g. recover my Sidebar
and the
way I had configured how I want Vista to look (you know with font types
and
how transparent the windows are etc). But I'm not sure how I do it?

So far I've only copied the User-folder from Windows.old to C: -
overwriting
all files that could be overwritten. I hope that was OK to do?
You'd think that the built-in recovery application would be able to
take
care of this, but apparently not.

Any and all help is much appreciated. I'd rather not sit here for like
an
hour or two while manually trying to get everything back to normal!
Thanks.


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Hello Brink! Thanks, according to those articles it seems that I CAN in fact
simply copy everything from Windows.old to my new Windows folder. Never
would've guessed (I actually still have a kinda bad feeling about this, but
at least copying everything from my User folder worked like a charm - so now
my Sidebar looks just like it used to!).

I'll be sure to report back later on how things went

Well, hmm, things didn't go as smoothly as I would've hoped. Can't say I'm
surprised about it.
Vista doesn't feel quite as stable now as before, and I'm having trouble
getting back my emails into Outlook. I think I'll just have to reinstall
everything again this weekend and only restore the User-folder, leaving
Windows be.

Bleh. I'mma make sure to create backups every now and then now that I've
learned my lesson