Why cant I restore a new installation of iTunes from  an iCloud backup to my iPad

I recently had a virus and had to reinstall a new copy of Windows, in doing this I also had to reinstall iTunes, I always thought the idea of iCloud was that if you ended up with the situation that I was in then you could restore your equipment to the state of the last backup that you did, I have looked everywhere for a link that would allow me to obtain my last backup and there isn't one available this obviously tells me that the Apple iCloud qppearsto be a total waste of time and effort, I have also just downloaded and installed a fresh copy of iCloud manager logged in with my original iTunes ID and clicked on Sync nothing absolutely nothing came back from iCloud so perhaps someone out there can either tell me if I am doing something wrong, or is iCloud the waste of time I think it is.
Regards
Clive
Using iPad with iOS 6.2

So why were the files moved this way?
Simply copy the ENTIRE iTunes folder from the old computer to the new computer.  Then launch iTunes and everything will be there.

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