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equivalent product to do it, but it saves you several steps in the reinstall process and is a nice clean way of getting back to a fresh newly
installed operating system (assuming there are no significant hardware changes in between reinstalls).
Now you need to consider what software applications are missing from your installation that you need. Most of the applications which
come pre-installed are on the Application Recovery CD. Some of them however, are not. I am pretty sure the following are part of the
factory image and not on the Application Recovery CD:
• Norton Antivirus (90 day trial)
• WinDVD (old version)
• Google Earth (old version and free anyway)
• A James Bond game of some kind
• Google’s Picasa (free)
• Google Desktop Search Installer
There is nothing I can do about Norton Antivirus (it’s only a 90 day trial anyway) – I’m opting to use the free 1 year licence for McAfee I
got with Sky Broadband instead. I know of no other way to legally obtain WinDVD, but it’s pretty easy to get the same functionality
legally, and this is described in the next section.