Sony laptop (about 5 years old ) runs on Win XP Pro Pac 3 but the system doesn?t feel right, is sluggish, some features like internet drivers network, CD etc are erratic and I was advised it is good idea to refresh/reinstall the system because all other measures like registry cleaning and so on don?t help any more.
Just find that the manufacturers disk is nowhere to be found , only backup I have is 2 restore disks I burned a while ago following the instructions from the in-built software Wizard.
The laptop manual says that if I use backup disks they will wipe out all installed programs as well. They are large number and set in particular ways and not all of them have their setup.exe any more.
The question – how to use my restore disks to refresh my Windows system without erasing the software already installed?
Thanks for any practical advise !