Hello Bob, Monday, August 31, 2009, 2:33:26 PM, you wrote: bjc> My question is suppose the reason for the Reinstall was that you bjc> had a Virus or Missing System files or something like that, bjc> doesn't this just put back the problem that you had???? If the reason was due to a virus infection then there will be infected files in the Windows.old folder but they won't be active as you need to access the files in a special way to extract them. So what you do is fully update your new installation and get all the security in place before extracting your data from the folder. You will not be using it to copy system files that are in there ! Pretty much as you'd do is the backup was on an external drive :-) -- Best regards, Barry mailto:barry@yobunny.co.uk MicroSoft Free Zone running Ubuntu 9.04 'Jaunty'