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Doing a Factory Restore, What Should I Keep?

Obviously the major things like my photos and music, but I'm looking for ideas on some of the things I might forget.

What sort of things are useful to keep, that I will most likely forget to transfer onto the external hard drive?

Qny ideas on what you might have forgotten or have remembered at the last minute to keep?

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  • closed
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    email, all of your profile.

    create a disk image, then if you forget something, you can either restore the lot, or look for whatever is missing.
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  • debitcardmayhem
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    Save your download files too and use one of the free utilities that tell what your license keys (Belarc is one and I cannot remember the other I have used at the moment) Plus back up your registry too in case there is something else you might need.
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  • Hammyman
    Hammyman Posts: 9,913 Forumite
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    Both closed and debitcardmayhems posts also need to be followed ideally.
  • 0james0
    0james0 Posts: 527 Forumite
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    Hammyman/ wrote:
    Both closed and debitcardmayhems posts also need to be followed ideally.

    sounds important, bit I have no idea about what you just said! ;)
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