In the process of either my kids or my hubby deleting **** off my computer, they changed my windows components. I now no longer have games on my computer. When I tried to fix it, it asked for my disc. I cannot find my Windows XP disc, and was wondering if anyone knew of anyway to get the card games back on my computer. PLEASE HELP!!! I have looked everywhere!
2006-12-20 11:07:55 · 5 answers · asked by countrygirl66032 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
OK, well just a little note, asshole. I am not the one who spends all the time on the computer. I am the one who WORKS on the computer from home. Thats simply it. Get your facts straight before accusing people of things. JERK!
2006-12-21 07:04:57 · update #1
Do a system restore back to a date before he deleted the "****" off your computer.
2006-12-20 11:10:17 · answer #1 · answered by G 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Why would your family remove the games? Was this a deliberate act of theirs to stop you spending too much time playing these games? Have they also deliberately hidden the disk?
Anyway (speculation over) - sooner or later, you're going to be up the proverbial creek (minus paddles), especially if your family is a bit too trigger happy with the delete button, compounded with the fact that you have no operating system disk.
Perhaps the shortcuts were removed and not the games themselves? You've probably already looked here, but the games should reside in this folder:
C:\WINDOWS\system32
freecell.exe (FreeCell)
mshearts.exe (Hearts)
sol.exe (Solitaire)
spider.exe (Spider)
Without the disk, your only other option is to have a friend locate these game files on their own PC and for them to email them to you so you can save them into the above mentioned folder.
It's not the ideal solution, but it should work - I strongly recommend you back up/create a Restore Point before attempting this.
My 2nd bit of advice is to move on. Life's too short to be spending all your time on these games. I should know - I've been there!
Hope that helps.
2006-12-20 12:23:01 · answer #2 · answered by Radiohead 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You do need the disk
you can try a system restore ( to a point that you remember having the games ) but I'm not sure that this will work
If all else fails pogo.com has plenty of free card games that you may like.
2006-12-20 11:17:32 · answer #3 · answered by Çlïgér4™ ♂ 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
1. Do a system restore back to when you had the games. (They are most likely still on your hard disk.)
Otherwise you will just have to find the disk.
2. Set up "limited" accounts for EACH user, and then install a password to keep them out of YOUR files.
NOTE: The Admin account should ONLY be used for system maintainence tasks!!
2006-12-20 12:04:50 · answer #4 · answered by f100_supersabre 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
as suggested previously do a search of your hard disk for those file names, Failing that just download the games from one of the many sites that have free downloads.
2006-12-20 22:18:08 · answer #5 · answered by Cromag 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋