I just did a soft restore, which reinstalled original MS software ... and disabled software I had purchased or downloaded.
I did try to back up my screen shots of the registration keys, but the WinRar file was corrupted in the soft-restore process. I did successfully export the registry before the crash (apparently caused by Advanced Windows Care .. which worked beautifully the first couple days) so I'm wondering if I could replace the registration keys for the past week's programs by culling them from that exported registry? The programs I really miss are Aston, Flash Spring, and ConceptDraw's Mind Map. The games would be nice, but those programs were genuine blessings.
Can anyone help?