You said that your purchase was made thru Digital River; I assume you used
Digital Locker Assistant to do the download. If this is the case, you might
sign on back into Digital Locker Assistant to burn to CD a legal copy of the
program for backup purposes. If you didn't use Digital Locker Assistant, I
recommend that you visit the site
(http://digitallocker.windowsmarketplace.com) to download and install the
Digital Locker program. Afterwards, you may add to your profile the existence
of software you already own, such as Money Plus Deluxe and enjoy the
previleges offered by the website. Hopefully, this information is helpful to
you.
--
ZuluDiver


"cvonbargen" wrote:

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As Cal suggested, your solution is cloning your current drive by creating an
image of your existing drive. This will have the added benefit of
restoring all your current programs without having to reinstall and
reconfigure them. While you can create the image on a series of DVDs, you
are better off buying (if you don't have one already) and external hard
drive, You will then need a program that will create an image, the best is
Acronis TruImage, but there are some free ones as well (do a Google search).
Also if your laptop's hard drive is made by Seagate or Maxtor (or, I think)
if the external drive you buy is one of those, you can download *for free*
Maxblast (Googol for it) which is a slightly crippled version of Acronis TI.
(For your purposes you do not need any of the disabled features).
--
Peace,
BobJ

"cvonbargen" <cvonbargen[at]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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In microsoft.public.money, Tomas wrote:

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I don't think so.

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I think it would need to be the downloaded Deluxe.
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Is every installation individual? Can I use my friends installation of a
legal MS Money if I lost my copy?

"Cal Learner-- MVP" wrote:

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In microsoft.public.money, cvonbargen wrote:

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In that case, the cloning to a new drive, or backing up to a whole
drive image that you can restore to the old drive, should be open to
you. I don't have specific info for you on disk backup software. The
cloning to a spare drive with a USB adaptor I have done. It's also a
nice opportunity to get a bigger, or maybe even faster, drive too.
There are a lot of good drives for well under $100 with shipping.
It's nice to know that you can get the laptop computer going again
quickly if the drive hardware or software fails.

In microsoft.public.money, Marilyn & Bob wrote:

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It's hard to foresee the need for the extended 2-year download
service ($5.99) at the time of purchase, so I expect it's not a
common purchase. People who do buy that are unlikely to then post
how that purchase turned out to save their situation.

No, I wasn't aware I could save a copy of the install file until I did some
digging the last few days. My issue with the laptop is that the wireless
card isn't working, which is a known error, and will be replaced by the
manufacturer. Do you know of any other options I may have?

Thank you very much for your help, it is greatly appreciated.

Courtney

"Marilyn & Bob" wrote:

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I assume from your message that you did not save a copy of your install file
to a CD. (I guess you will do that next time for all your downloaded
software). You didn't say what the problem with your laptop is. Depending
on the reason it is being sent to the manufacturer, you might have some
options.
--
Peace,
BobJ

"cvonbargen" <cvonbargen[at]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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I purchased Microsoft Money Plus Deluxe last September and downloaded the
program to my laptop via Digital River. My laptop now has an issue that
requires it to be sent to the manufacturer, and they informed me that it
would be returned to me with factory-restored settings.

Is there a way I can back up the actual program so I may re-install when I
receive the laptop back? If not, what are my options? I only purchased the
program two months ago, but it is out of the 30 day window they allow to
re-install for free.