A few days after win 7 home premium install, I backup an image to a different (but always connected) hard drive, no issues. After some troubles with Windows live mail I decided to do a restore using that backup image. It appeared to work fine but after the final boot up into the win 7 OS I found out that Firefox and Thunderbird was there but didn't work. Comments or fixes !! I'm thinking that win 7 backup might not be that great.... I'll be looking at a 3rd party image backup program soon.

Because they are from third party publishers, we cannot guarantee that they will work in either scenario. As you can see all Windows 7 and other Microsoft programs works properly. The issue should be resolved after you reinstall the applications. If you want to find the root cause, I suggest you report the issue to the publishers of the applications.Please remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.

Wow, you have a great profile but I guess it's always easy to blame others. It's hard to get all fuzzie inside about using win7 image backup when it doesn't restore properly, I just wanted to let someone know about this issue. One works and one doesn't !! Any program that suppose to image ----- should be able restore that image....right? Sounds like you're too far down the MS garden path to meltdown for my meager abilities. "O" and BTW: I also made a TI 2010 image after I did the win7 image (within the same hour ) and it's restore worked perfect. Have a Good Day!! If you dial a wrong number, you never get a busy signal.