Originally Posted by lambogalardo

i am think that soon i am going to have to do a drive wipe, and i have about 200 programs, mostly from back corners of the web, and i dont want to have to reinstall all of them. i am wondering if i copy everything on my C: drive onto an external, wipe the C: drive and then copy all the files back on if the programs will need to be fully installed, or since i have included all the services files and stuff if it will work. thanks.
p.s. if that wont work, my computer is giving me an error script when i try to start up the "help and support", device manager is blank and system restore is giving me one restore point (i usually have one every other day or so) and sound has stopped. i went into msconfig startup settings and disabled all, but now, even though i reenabled everything it still doesnt work. any ideas? thanks a lot.