The only known good way that doesn't cause folk to explode on minutia is to backup an image of the drive to restore from.
Bob
I did something stupid a few weeks ago (no, I am not saying what...) and had to restore my Dell Inspiron laptop. The worst was having to download all of the Windows updates that I had installed since I bought the laptop a year ago. Is there any way to backup these Windows updates, in case (*shudder*) this happens again, I will have these ready on a disc or flash drive ready to reinstall?

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