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About the software on your Sony VAIO Desktop
Using the product recovery CD-ROMs
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To perform an application recovery, proceed as follows:
1 Take the final product recovery CD-ROM.
2 Turn on your computer and wait until Windows
®
has booted up.
3 Insert the product recovery CD-ROM into the drive.
4 Access the drive through My Computer.
5 Open the directory that corresponds to the application that you want to recover.
6 Double-click the Setup program.
7 Follow the instructions in the Installer.
You must run the last product recovery CD-ROM from Windows
®
.
The application will not run from DOS.
When performing an application recovery, you do not lose data on your hard disk.
Reinstalling a device driver
Some applications or peripherals require specific drivers which you will not find in the Windows
®
Driver
cache folder. To help you find or restore typical drivers needed by your pre-installed applications, you can
use the final product recovery CD-ROM.
To reinstall a device driver, proceed as follows:
1 First check whether the driver you want to reinstall is on the final product recovery CD-ROM. Only
device drivers that are not delivered with Windows
®
can be found in the Drivers folder.
2 Check all underlying sub-directories for the appropriate driver.
3 Next, launch and follow the Add Hardware Wizard (click Start/Control Panel/Performance and
Maintenance/System/Hardware/Add Hardware Wizard.)
If you installed a more recent driver you will get a warning message, in this case just ignore the warning.