help-husband lost microsoft works...

[Guest]

i got a call from my husband while at work today-he thinks he had deleted
microsoft works and could i find it when i get home and make it work
again....well, i don't know what he did but i can't find it anywhere. any
suggestions on how to find it and make it work again?
i have looked in recovery, recycle, documents, controll panell, system
information....i just haven't looked where it is hiding. thank you!
Tracy

 

[Adam Albright]

i got a call from my husband while at work today-he thinks he had deleted
microsoft works and could i find it when i get home and make it work
again....well, i don't know what he did but i can't find it anywhere. any
suggestions on how to find it and make it work again?
i have looked in recovery, recycle, documents, controll panell, system
information....i just haven't looked where it is hiding. thank you!
Tracy

If he really did delete it isn't hiding, it is removed. So reinstall
it. You could try a restore point to see if it brings the system back
to how it was before he did whatever he did. Doesn't always work for
applications but won't hurt to try.

Hope you got backups of data files.

If you think it wasn't deleted, just moved you could try doing an
advance search using: .exe. That will find every executables on your
system regardless where it is. Bring up the advance search window
under location change to everywhere and search all drives.

 

[Daniel]

how did he delete it, if he does not know he probably dragged the folder
into another one, search for the folder in "search" and put it back where it
belongs.

To find out where it belongs and the name of the folder it is in, go to the
short cut or start menu item, right click on it and select "properties"
select the "shortcut" tab and see where the folder is supposed to be and
what it is called.

If there is no start menu item then he could have dragged that into the
programs around it, if there is also no shortcut on the desk top then he has
probably deleted it in Add/Remove programs.

regards

Daniel