I recently had to reformat my hard drive as I lost/corrupted my password and could not gain access to my admin A/C no matter how hard or what I tried (several "hacking type programs).

When I reformatted my hard drive, I lost some programs which had files stored within the programs.

What is the best way to recover these files that are stored within programs? I have Windows 7, and there is a section called Windows.old in my OS, but I cannot find the program that I used to have.

Any help would be appreciated.