Richard

Your other programs may be on other discs seperate from the Vista disc.
Look at your laptop documentation or call their support no.

"CLA" <CLA@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I'm missing some programs. I had made a second copy of vista premium
> on my new laptop. I had to recover but the recovery manager formatted my
> drive and I was instructed to insert the vista cd that came with my new
> lap.
> I reinstalled the windows. Then it went to windows update and I got most
> of
> my drivers and updated alot. except office, and recovery manager, and some
> others like defender. The product key now says invalid too. Except I used
> the cd
> that came with my lap so why is it invalid? I need to reinstall some vista
> programs
> anyone know how, and where? how can I tell what programs are missing? help
> help,help please!