You should have been able to recover the situation if you had researched
Vista help, or help from your laptop tech, without resorting to a
reinstallation.
Depends how you backed up as to what is restored, if you used Vista built in
backup it doesnt back up programs.
To backup the complete PC use a program such as Acronis True Image or Ghost
to name but two.

Your Laptop should have been supplied with either a set of disks, or an
inbuilt recovery partition, together with the instructions on how to create
the recovery disks.
If you purchased the MS programs yourself, then reinstall them from their
cd's, however if Office was supplied preinstalled then contact your Laptop
manufacturer/supplier.

PS This isnt really an Outlook question, but more related to Vista or
general hardware

"Roanldo" wrote in message
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I bought a new Laptop which came with Vista Ultimate.
I was downloading an update for vista and as it installed the update it
crashed on
my laptop and froze, so i manually shut down the computer and went to
start
windows the proccess of the laptop slow down, and then ended up failing to
run Vista Ultimate, Luckily i had a back up of my computer and programs
that
i previously installed, so when i rebooted because i was told that was the
only way to fix it, everything was working fine apart from i had lost all
my
Vista Ultimate Programs like outlook, Access and Project Pro and others
which
I deeply depend on, Is there a way i can reinstall these programs under
Ultimate?

I have still got everything i was given with the laptop, but not the
Download disc for Vista Ultimate, it was preloaded but i still have my
Product Codes Ultimate and Project Pro.

Can you help me please i need help.