Need to pick the computer-savvy brains amongst ya.:-)

I went to backup my files and it tells me that I am missing BACKUP.CFG; how to Add/Remove Programs, etc.

When I go to do that, everything shows as instaleld and no prob! smae result as above.

So, I went to reload it from disk and it tells me if I reload my programs from scratch I will lose ALL of my files, which of course are not backed up!!

Next, I went to an official MS download site, chose to download the missing component, installed it, I thought, to no avail!

Help! Do any of you use a full program which you can download for free? Is it any good? Do you like it? How do you do it?

Is it easier just to go into a program, i.e. Works, and do it file by file to A drive?

Aaarrrgghhhhh! Thanks for any help!!

katgrittingherteeth&tryingnottocurse!