I reinstalled windows7, but luckily it saved my old windows in windows.old plus i backed up encrypted wallet to external device. How exactly do I restore it?
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Be very careful. First, shutdown Bitcoin-Qt completely. Rename its current wallet.dat file to something else (you can delete it, but just rename it to be safe). Then put your backup in its place. Start Bitcoin-Qt and you're done.

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