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Acronis TrueImage 13 pluspack

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I will be reformatting my hard drive and reinstalling Windows 7. Is it possible to only reinstall certain programs using Acronis TrueImage 13 or do I have to install everything that's backed up on it?

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Program installs are modifications to the OS. You can't really get partly wet. You could selectively restore data files, but if you want programs installed with Win, then you have to restore Win and the progs like a complete set. You can then uninstall afterwords.

Even if it was possible to do enough surgery to restore some progs and not the OS and the whole magilla, it would be so much work, that restoring fully and then uninstalling would look like a breeze.

An exception is certain kind of tiny progs that run from an exe file and don't actually incorporate into windows or make and registry entrees. I have a couple of utilities that work this way and you can treat those just like data files.