Basic Games in XP replaced by Internet games

G

Guest

I used to have the basic Freecell/Solataire/minesweeper etc on my XP home pc.
After reinstalling Outlook Express to my PC I find these games have been
replaced by internet games from MS/Zone.com. (Is it me or is the Add/Remove
facility ambiguous as it doesn't say whether it's adding OR removing a
program until it's too late to do anything about it?).
I can uninstal these internet games but I can't seem to re-install the
original basic games, even when using my XP cd.
Help please?
 
J

Jimmy S.

Hi bograt,

I've updated Outlook Express on my system, and my Solitaire games did not
dissapear, they still happily co-exist in the same folder as my Internet Games.

Somehow, your Solitaire games became uninstalled.. we'll just reinstall them.

To add/remove Windows XP Games:

Click START > Control Panel
Add or Remove Programs
Add Remove Windows Components
Accessories and Utilities
[Details...]
Games
[Details...]
Select the games to install, here's how:
Click to expand...
Place a check to install, or uncheck to uninstall
* If you're installing, and it's already checked, uncheck the
box and then check it again to trick Windows into reinstalling
Click [OK] 3 times.
Click to expand...

--
Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com

Visit my MSN Zone.com and Gaming Help Site: http://mvps.org/nibblesnbits
MS Games Help and Support Center: http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
_________________________________________________________


bograt Wrote:
=================
| I used to have the basic Freecell/Solataire/minesweeper etc on my XP home pc.
| After reinstalling Outlook Express to my PC I find these games have been
| replaced by internet games from MS/Zone.com. (Is it me or is the Add/Remove
| facility ambiguous as it doesn't say whether it's adding OR removing a
| program until it's too late to do anything about it?).
| I can uninstal these internet games but I can't seem to re-install the
| original basic games, even when using my XP cd.
| Help please?
 
G

Guest

thanks for your help Jimmy.

seems I have a dodgy XP disk. Finally got it to work at fifth attempt.

I still believe the Add/Remove procedure is ambiguous, and why no choice
over the internet games?

Sometimes I despair of Microsoft.

Jimmy S. said:
Hi bograt,

I've updated Outlook Express on my system, and my Solitaire games did not
dissapear, they still happily co-exist in the same folder as my Internet Games.

Somehow, your Solitaire games became uninstalled.. we'll just reinstall them.

To add/remove Windows XP Games:

Click START > Control Panel
Add or Remove Programs
Add Remove Windows Components
Accessories and Utilities
[Details...]
Games
[Details...]
Select the games to install, here's how:
Click to expand...
Place a check to install, or uncheck to uninstall
* If you're installing, and it's already checked, uncheck the
box and then check it again to trick Windows into reinstalling
Click [OK] 3 times.
Click to expand...

--
Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com

Visit my MSN Zone.com and Gaming Help Site: http://mvps.org/nibblesnbits
MS Games Help and Support Center: http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
_________________________________________________________


bograt Wrote:
=================
| I used to have the basic Freecell/Solataire/minesweeper etc on my XP home pc.
| After reinstalling Outlook Express to my PC I find these games have been
| replaced by internet games from MS/Zone.com. (Is it me or is the Add/Remove
| facility ambiguous as it doesn't say whether it's adding OR removing a
| program until it's too late to do anything about it?).
| I can uninstal these internet games but I can't seem to re-install the
| original basic games, even when using my XP cd.
| Help please?
Click to expand...
 
J

Jimmy S.

Hi bograt,

Sorry to hear about your troubles, but I'm happy we fixed the issue. :)

bograt Wrote:
=================
| thanks for your help Jimmy.
|
| seems I have a dodgy XP disk. Finally got it to work at fifth attempt.
|
| I still believe the Add/Remove procedure is ambiguous, and why no choice
| over the internet games?
|
| Sometimes I despair of Microsoft.
|
| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|
|| Hi bograt,
||
|| I've updated Outlook Express on my system, and my Solitaire games did not
|| dissapear, they still happily co-exist in the same folder as my Internet Games.
||
|| Somehow, your Solitaire games became uninstalled.. we'll just reinstall them.
||
|| To add/remove Windows XP Games:
||
|| Click START > Control Panel
|| > Add or Remove Programs
|| > Add Remove Windows Components
|| > Accessories and Utilities
|| > [Details...]
|| > Games
|| > [Details...]
|| > Select the games to install, here's how:
|| Place a check to install, or uncheck to uninstall
|| * If you're installing, and it's already checked, uncheck the
|| box and then check it again to trick Windows into reinstalling
|| > Click [OK] 3 times.
||
|| --
|| Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
|| Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
||
|| Visit my MSN Zone.com and Gaming Help Site: http://mvps.org/nibblesnbits
|| MS Games Help and Support Center: http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
|| My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
|| _________________________________________________________
||
||
|| bograt Wrote:
|| =================
||| I used to have the basic Freecell/Solataire/minesweeper etc on my XP home pc.
||| After reinstalling Outlook Express to my PC I find these games have been
||| replaced by internet games from MS/Zone.com. (Is it me or is the Add/Remove
||| facility ambiguous as it doesn't say whether it's adding OR removing a
||| program until it's too late to do anything about it?).
||| I can uninstal these internet games but I can't seem to re-install the
||| original basic games, even when using my XP cd.
||| Help please?
 
M

Macedonia ViRuS

I have the same problem with my games but i try to instal the games like you
anser at first time but there are no games at my Add Remove Windows
Components...

Please help!

Jimmy S. said:
Hi bograt,

I've updated Outlook Express on my system, and my Solitaire games did not
dissapear, they still happily co-exist in the same folder as my Internet Games.

Somehow, your Solitaire games became uninstalled.. we'll just reinstall them.

To add/remove Windows XP Games:

Click START > Control Panel
Add or Remove Programs
Add Remove Windows Components
Accessories and Utilities
[Details...]
Games
[Details...]
Select the games to install, here's how:
Click to expand...
Place a check to install, or uncheck to uninstall
* If you're installing, and it's already checked, uncheck the
box and then check it again to trick Windows into reinstalling
Click [OK] 3 times.
Click to expand...

--
Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com

Visit my MSN Zone.com and Gaming Help Site: http://mvps.org/nibblesnbits
MS Games Help and Support Center: http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
_________________________________________________________


bograt Wrote:
=================
| I used to have the basic Freecell/Solataire/minesweeper etc on my XP home pc.
| After reinstalling Outlook Express to my PC I find these games have been
| replaced by internet games from MS/Zone.com. (Is it me or is the Add/Remove
| facility ambiguous as it doesn't say whether it's adding OR removing a
| program until it's too late to do anything about it?).
| I can uninstal these internet games but I can't seem to re-install the
| original basic games, even when using my XP cd.
| Help please?
Click to expand...
 

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