Possible to backup pre installed software?

[shafe88]

Just aquired a free Vista desktop and need to re install vista but their is no restore disk andd the recovery partetion got deleted/erased. their is a few programs preinstalled from the factory I want to backup and restore once I get vista reinstalled.

 

[hang-the-9]

You can see if those are downloadable from the vendor, if not no way to reinstall them without disks. Some vendors offer a create restore disks from a utility, see if maybe that is installed and that may setup those programs.