Recently I installed Windows Vista and I noticed that after installing it all of my purchased music from  iTunes was gone (kind of). Normally this wouldn't be an issue but I had bought the entire U2 library and I can't lose that!

When you install Vista overtop of Windows XP, everything is moved to a folder named Windows.old. For some strange reason, the new search in Vista will not search Windows.old!

To restore your purchased music go to C:\Windows.old\Documents and Settings\Your Old UserName\My Documents\My Music\iTunes

Copy all of the folders in here to C:\Users\Your Username\Music\iTunes

Next in iTunes go to File->Add Folder to iTunes and select C:\Users\Your Username\Music\iTunes this will add all of the files to iTunes. You will have to re-authorize the files to play on your new installation of Vista. If there is an easier way please let me know! You only have to re-authorize it once.

[ Currently Playing : The Entire Purchased Library of U2]