Sven Pran

My Vista Home premium doesn't offer Complete PC backup, and in any case I am
not so sure I miss that facility?.

What I want is some means to create a CD or DVD from which I can boot my
machine and in case I need it reinstall my Vista with all upgrades that were
applied at the time I made that backup. If that backup includes all my
installed programs at the time so much the better, but backup of my user
data is a separate issue that causes me no problem.

I once experienced a situation with my older XP machine where I had to
reinstall Windows XP from the original recovery CD, after which my machine
entered a long process of installing all the upgrades that had been issued
since my PC was new. That was not "funny".

If Vista (Home premium) offers this facility and I have just overlooked it,
OK. If there exists some (reputable) third party product that offers it, OK.
In any case I should be very grateful for information.

regards Sven