Help! my games disappeared?!

G

Guest

I don't know what happened, but recently, I noticed the general games on my
computer (solitaire, hearts, pinball etc.) are gone! I go into programs, look
in the games folder, and it says it's empty. I don't know what could have
caused the games to disappear. Is there anything I can do to get them back?
thanks.
 
J

Jimmy S.

Hi KayMil01,

To add/remove Windows XP Games: Click START / Control Panel /
Add or Remove Programs / Add Remove Windows Components /
Accessories and Utilities / [Details...] / Games / [Details...] / then check
(or uncheck and then recheck the game) / Click [OK] 3 times to finish.

Pinball is not on that list by default. You may need to use these steps first:

1. Choose Start / Run / Copy+Paste the next line into the RUN box and press [ENTER]:
notepad %SystemRoot%\Inf\Sysoc.inf

2. Scroll down to the line that reads: Pinball=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,pinball.inf,HIDE,7
and delete the word HIDE from the line so it now reads: Pinball=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,pinball.inf,,7

3. Click File / Exit and choose YES to save the changes you made to the file.

4. Click Start / Settings / Control Panel / Add-Remove Programs and follow the
instructions posted in the first paragraph to reinstall Pinball now that it's on the list.

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

Visit my MSN Games and Windows Gaming Help Site: www.msce.mvps.org
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.
_________________________________________________________


KayMil01 Wrote:
=================
| I don't know what happened, but recently, I noticed the general games on my
| computer (solitaire, hearts, pinball etc.) are gone! I go into programs, look
| in the games folder, and it says it's empty. I don't know what could have
| caused the games to disappear. Is there anything I can do to get them back?
| thanks.
 
G

Guest

Hey, I followed your instructions, and for some reason, the games I want
back, still aren't appearing in the games folder...just Internet backgammon,
Internet checkers, Internet Hearts etc. are there, but not pinball, hearts,
solitaire, spider solitaire, mindsweeper, etc. are not showing up in the
games folder. Did I do something wrong?
 
J

Jimmy S.

Hi KayMil01,

Go through these steps please and report back with which games
you find with checkmarks next to them:

|| To add/remove Windows XP Games: Click START / Control Panel /
|| Add or Remove Programs / Add Remove Windows Components /
|| Accessories and Utilities / [Details...] / Games / click [Details...] button


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

Visit my MSN Games and Windows Gaming Help Site: www.msce.mvps.org
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.
_________________________________________________________

KayMil01 Wrote:
=================
| Hey, I followed your instructions, and for some reason, the games I want
| back, still aren't appearing in the games folder...just Internet backgammon,
| Internet checkers, Internet Hearts etc. are there, but not pinball, hearts,
| solitaire, spider solitaire, mindsweeper, etc. are not showing up in the
| games folder. Did I do something wrong?
|
| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|
|| Hi KayMil01,
||
|| To add/remove Windows XP Games: Click START / Control Panel /
|| Add or Remove Programs / Add Remove Windows Components /
|| Accessories and Utilities / [Details...] / Games / [Details...] / then check
|| (or uncheck and then recheck the game) / Click [OK] 3 times to finish.
||
|| Pinball is not on that list by default. You may need to use these steps first:
||
|| 1. Choose Start / Run / Copy+Paste the next line into the RUN box and press [ENTER]:
|| notepad %SystemRoot%\Inf\Sysoc.inf
||
|| 2. Scroll down to the line that reads: Pinball=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,pinball.inf,HIDE,7
|| and delete the word HIDE from the line so it now reads: Pinball=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,pinball.inf,,7
||
|| 3. Click File / Exit and choose YES to save the changes you made to the file.
||
|| 4. Click Start / Settings / Control Panel / Add-Remove Programs and follow the
|| instructions posted in the first paragraph to reinstall Pinball now that it's on the list.
||
|| --
|| Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
|| Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
||
|| Visit my MSN Games and Windows Gaming Help Site: www.msce.mvps.org
|| 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.
|| _________________________________________________________
||
||
|| KayMil01 Wrote:
|| =================
||| I don't know what happened, but recently, I noticed the general games on my
||| computer (solitaire, hearts, pinball etc.) are gone! I go into programs, look
||| in the games folder, and it says it's empty. I don't know what could have
||| caused the games to disappear. Is there anything I can do to get them back?
||| thanks.
 
G

Guest

Ok, the games that are checkmarked are: Freecell, Hearts, Z Internet Games,
Minesweeper, Pinball, Solitaire, and Spider Solitaire.

Jimmy S. said:
Hi KayMil01,

Go through these steps please and report back with which games
you find with checkmarks next to them:

|| To add/remove Windows XP Games: Click START / Control Panel /
|| Add or Remove Programs / Add Remove Windows Components /
|| Accessories and Utilities / [Details...] / Games / click [Details...] button


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

Visit my MSN Games and Windows Gaming Help Site: www.msce.mvps.org
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.
_________________________________________________________

KayMil01 Wrote:
=================
| Hey, I followed your instructions, and for some reason, the games I want
| back, still aren't appearing in the games folder...just Internet backgammon,
| Internet checkers, Internet Hearts etc. are there, but not pinball, hearts,
| solitaire, spider solitaire, mindsweeper, etc. are not showing up in the
| games folder. Did I do something wrong?
|
| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|
|| Hi KayMil01,
||
|| To add/remove Windows XP Games: Click START / Control Panel /
|| Add or Remove Programs / Add Remove Windows Components /
|| Accessories and Utilities / [Details...] / Games / [Details...] / then check
|| (or uncheck and then recheck the game) / Click [OK] 3 times to finish.
||
|| Pinball is not on that list by default. You may need to use these steps first:
||
|| 1. Choose Start / Run / Copy+Paste the next line into the RUN box and press [ENTER]:
|| notepad %SystemRoot%\Inf\Sysoc.inf
||
|| 2. Scroll down to the line that reads: Pinball=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,pinball.inf,HIDE,7
|| and delete the word HIDE from the line so it now reads: Pinball=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,pinball.inf,,7
||
|| 3. Click File / Exit and choose YES to save the changes you made to the file.
||
|| 4. Click Start / Settings / Control Panel / Add-Remove Programs and follow the
|| instructions posted in the first paragraph to reinstall Pinball now that it's on the list.
||
|| --
|| Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
|| Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
||
|| Visit my MSN Games and Windows Gaming Help Site: www.msce.mvps.org
|| 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.
|| _________________________________________________________
||
||
|| KayMil01 Wrote:
|| =================
||| I don't know what happened, but recently, I noticed the general games on my
||| computer (solitaire, hearts, pinball etc.) are gone! I go into programs, look
||| in the games folder, and it says it's empty. I don't know what could have
||| caused the games to disappear. Is there anything I can do to get them back?
||| thanks.
Click to expand...
 
J

Jimmy S.

Hi KayMil01,

Okay, I would like you to uncheck all those games, click OK and then
go back in and check them all once again to trigger their reinstallation. :)

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

Visit my MSN Games and Windows Gaming Help Site: www.msce.mvps.org
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.
_________________________________________________________

KayMil01 Wrote:
=================
| Ok, the games that are checkmarked are: Freecell, Hearts, Z Internet Games,
| Minesweeper, Pinball, Solitaire, and Spider Solitaire.
|
| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|
|| Hi KayMil01,
||
|| Go through these steps please and report back with which games
|| you find with checkmarks next to them:
||
|||| To add/remove Windows XP Games: Click START / Control Panel /
|||| Add or Remove Programs / Add Remove Windows Components /
|||| Accessories and Utilities / [Details...] / Games / click [Details...] button
||
||
|| --
|| Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
|| Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
||
|| Visit my MSN Games and Windows Gaming Help Site: www.msce.mvps.org
|| 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.
|| _________________________________________________________
||
|| KayMil01 Wrote:
|| =================
||| Hey, I followed your instructions, and for some reason, the games I want
||| back, still aren't appearing in the games folder...just Internet backgammon,
||| Internet checkers, Internet Hearts etc. are there, but not pinball, hearts,
||| solitaire, spider solitaire, mindsweeper, etc. are not showing up in the
||| games folder. Did I do something wrong?
|||
||| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|||
|||| Hi KayMil01,
||||
|||| To add/remove Windows XP Games: Click START / Control Panel /
|||| Add or Remove Programs / Add Remove Windows Components /
|||| Accessories and Utilities / [Details...] / Games / [Details...] / then check
|||| (or uncheck and then recheck the game) / Click [OK] 3 times to finish.
||||
|||| Pinball is not on that list by default. You may need to use these steps first:
||||
|||| 1. Choose Start / Run / Copy+Paste the next line into the RUN box and press [ENTER]:
|||| notepad %SystemRoot%\Inf\Sysoc.inf
||||
|||| 2. Scroll down to the line that reads: Pinball=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,pinball.inf,HIDE,7
|||| and delete the word HIDE from the line so it now reads: Pinball=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,pinball.inf,,7
||||
|||| 3. Click File / Exit and choose YES to save the changes you made to the file.
||||
|||| 4. Click Start / Settings / Control Panel / Add-Remove Programs and follow the
|||| instructions posted in the first paragraph to reinstall Pinball now that it's on the list.
||||
|||| --
|||| Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
|||| Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
||||
|||| Visit my MSN Games and Windows Gaming Help Site: www.msce.mvps.org
|||| 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.
|||| _________________________________________________________
||||
||||
|||| KayMil01 Wrote:
|||| =================
||||| I don't know what happened, but recently, I noticed the general games on my
||||| computer (solitaire, hearts, pinball etc.) are gone! I go into programs, look
||||| in the games folder, and it says it's empty. I don't know what could have
||||| caused the games to disappear. Is there anything I can do to get them back?
||||| thanks.
 
G

Guest

Ok, I unchecked all the games, and re-checked them, and the games still don't
appear in the games folder...it says it's empty. After clicking ok twice, and
am I suppose to click 'next' in the windows components wizard? cause
sometimes I did hit next, and other times I didn't...I don't know, I think I
still may be doing something wrong?

Jimmy S. said:
Hi KayMil01,

Okay, I would like you to uncheck all those games, click OK and then
go back in and check them all once again to trigger their reinstallation. :)

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

Visit my MSN Games and Windows Gaming Help Site: www.msce.mvps.org
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.
_________________________________________________________

KayMil01 Wrote:
=================
| Ok, the games that are checkmarked are: Freecell, Hearts, Z Internet Games,
| Minesweeper, Pinball, Solitaire, and Spider Solitaire.
|
| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|
|| Hi KayMil01,
||
|| Go through these steps please and report back with which games
|| you find with checkmarks next to them:
||
|||| To add/remove Windows XP Games: Click START / Control Panel /
|||| Add or Remove Programs / Add Remove Windows Components /
|||| Accessories and Utilities / [Details...] / Games / click [Details...] button
||
||
|| --
|| Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
|| Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
||
|| Visit my MSN Games and Windows Gaming Help Site: www.msce.mvps.org
|| 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.
|| _________________________________________________________
||
|| KayMil01 Wrote:
|| =================
||| Hey, I followed your instructions, and for some reason, the games I want
||| back, still aren't appearing in the games folder...just Internet backgammon,
||| Internet checkers, Internet Hearts etc. are there, but not pinball, hearts,
||| solitaire, spider solitaire, mindsweeper, etc. are not showing up in the
||| games folder. Did I do something wrong?
|||
||| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|||
|||| Hi KayMil01,
||||
|||| To add/remove Windows XP Games: Click START / Control Panel /
|||| Add or Remove Programs / Add Remove Windows Components /
|||| Accessories and Utilities / [Details...] / Games / [Details...] / then check
|||| (or uncheck and then recheck the game) / Click [OK] 3 times to finish.
||||
|||| Pinball is not on that list by default. You may need to use these steps first:
||||
|||| 1. Choose Start / Run / Copy+Paste the next line into the RUN box and press [ENTER]:
|||| notepad %SystemRoot%\Inf\Sysoc.inf
||||
|||| 2. Scroll down to the line that reads: Pinball=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,pinball.inf,HIDE,7
|||| and delete the word HIDE from the line so it now reads: Pinball=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,pinball.inf,,7
||||
|||| 3. Click File / Exit and choose YES to save the changes you made to the file.
||||
|||| 4. Click Start / Settings / Control Panel / Add-Remove Programs and follow the
|||| instructions posted in the first paragraph to reinstall Pinball now that it's on the list.
||||
|||| --
|||| Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
|||| Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
||||
|||| Visit my MSN Games and Windows Gaming Help Site: www.msce.mvps.org
|||| 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.
|||| _________________________________________________________
||||
||||
|||| KayMil01 Wrote:
|||| =================
||||| I don't know what happened, but recently, I noticed the general games on my
||||| computer (solitaire, hearts, pinball etc.) are gone! I go into programs, look
||||| in the games folder, and it says it's empty. I don't know what could have
||||| caused the games to disappear. Is there anything I can do to get them back?
||||| thanks.
Click to expand...
 
J

Jimmy S.

Hi KayMil01,

Yes you would have to click Next in this situation, here's the steps:

Click START / Control Panel /
||||| Add or Remove Programs / Add Remove Windows Components /
||||| Accessories and Utilities / [Details...] / Games / [Details...]
||||| (or uncheck and then recheck the game) / [OK] / [OK] / [Next]


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

Visit my MSN Games and Windows Gaming Help Site: www.msce.mvps.org
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.
_________________________________________________________

KayMil01 Wrote:
=================
| Ok, I unchecked all the games, and re-checked them, and the games still don't
| appear in the games folder...it says it's empty. After clicking ok twice, and
| am I suppose to click 'next' in the windows components wizard? cause
| sometimes I did hit next, and other times I didn't...I don't know, I think I
| still may be doing something wrong?
|
| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|
|| Hi KayMil01,
||
|| Okay, I would like you to uncheck all those games, click OK and then
|| go back in and check them all once again to trigger their reinstallation. :)
||
|| --
|| Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
|| Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
||
|| Visit my MSN Games and Windows Gaming Help Site: www.msce.mvps.org
|| 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.
|| _________________________________________________________
||
|| KayMil01 Wrote:
|| =================
||| Ok, the games that are checkmarked are: Freecell, Hearts, Z Internet Games,
||| Minesweeper, Pinball, Solitaire, and Spider Solitaire.
|||
||| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|||
|||| Hi KayMil01,
||||
|||| Go through these steps please and report back with which games
|||| you find with checkmarks next to them:
||||
|||||| To add/remove Windows XP Games: Click START / Control Panel /
|||||| Add or Remove Programs / Add Remove Windows Components /
|||||| Accessories and Utilities / [Details...] / Games / click [Details...] button
||||
||||
|||| --
|||| Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
|||| Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
||||
|||| Visit my MSN Games and Windows Gaming Help Site: www.msce.mvps.org
|||| 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.
|||| _________________________________________________________
||||
|||| KayMil01 Wrote:
|||| =================
||||| Hey, I followed your instructions, and for some reason, the games I want
||||| back, still aren't appearing in the games folder...just Internet backgammon,
||||| Internet checkers, Internet Hearts etc. are there, but not pinball, hearts,
||||| solitaire, spider solitaire, mindsweeper, etc. are not showing up in the
||||| games folder. Did I do something wrong?
|||||
||||| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|||||
|||||| Hi KayMil01,
||||||
|||||| To add/remove Windows XP Games: Click START / Control Panel /
|||||| Add or Remove Programs / Add Remove Windows Components /
|||||| Accessories and Utilities / [Details...] / Games / [Details...] / then check
|||||| (or uncheck and then recheck the game) / Click [OK] 3 times to finish.
||||||
|||||| Pinball is not on that list by default. You may need to use these steps first:
||||||
|||||| 1. Choose Start / Run / Copy+Paste the next line into the RUN box and press [ENTER]:
|||||| notepad %SystemRoot%\Inf\Sysoc.inf
||||||
|||||| 2. Scroll down to the line that reads: Pinball=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,pinball.inf,HIDE,7
|||||| and delete the word HIDE from the line so it now reads: Pinball=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,pinball.inf,,7
||||||
|||||| 3. Click File / Exit and choose YES to save the changes you made to the file.
||||||
|||||| 4. Click Start / Settings / Control Panel / Add-Remove Programs and follow the
|||||| instructions posted in the first paragraph to reinstall Pinball now that it's on the list.
||||||
|||||| --
|||||| Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
|||||| Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
||||||
|||||| Visit my MSN Games and Windows Gaming Help Site: www.msce.mvps.org
|||||| 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.
|||||| _________________________________________________________
||||||
||||||
|||||| KayMil01 Wrote:
|||||| =================
||||||| I don't know what happened, but recently, I noticed the general games on my
||||||| computer (solitaire, hearts, pinball etc.) are gone! I go into programs, look
||||||| in the games folder, and it says it's empty. I don't know what could have
||||||| caused the games to disappear. Is there anything I can do to get them back?
||||||| thanks.
 
G

Guest

Me again. ugh I'm just having a heck of a time with this...

Alrighty, I followed the steps, but NOW when I click next, it starts to do
it's thing, but then a box pops up saying: "The file '(name of the game).exe'
on Windows XP Home Edition CD-ROM is needed. Type the path where the file is
located and then click OK."

What do I do this time? thanks.

Jimmy S. said:
Hi KayMil01,

Yes you would have to click Next in this situation, here's the steps:

Click START / Control Panel /
||||| Add or Remove Programs / Add Remove Windows Components /
||||| Accessories and Utilities / [Details...] / Games / [Details...]
||||| (or uncheck and then recheck the game) / [OK] / [OK] / [Next]


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

Visit my MSN Games and Windows Gaming Help Site: www.msce.mvps.org
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.
_________________________________________________________

KayMil01 Wrote:
=================
| Ok, I unchecked all the games, and re-checked them, and the games still don't
| appear in the games folder...it says it's empty. After clicking ok twice, and
| am I suppose to click 'next' in the windows components wizard? cause
| sometimes I did hit next, and other times I didn't...I don't know, I think I
| still may be doing something wrong?
|
| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|
|| Hi KayMil01,
||
|| Okay, I would like you to uncheck all those games, click OK and then
|| go back in and check them all once again to trigger their reinstallation. :)
||
|| --
|| Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
|| Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
||
|| Visit my MSN Games and Windows Gaming Help Site: www.msce.mvps.org
|| 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.
|| _________________________________________________________
||
|| KayMil01 Wrote:
|| =================
||| Ok, the games that are checkmarked are: Freecell, Hearts, Z Internet Games,
||| Minesweeper, Pinball, Solitaire, and Spider Solitaire.
|||
||| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|||
|||| Hi KayMil01,
||||
|||| Go through these steps please and report back with which games
|||| you find with checkmarks next to them:
||||
|||||| To add/remove Windows XP Games: Click START / Control Panel /
|||||| Add or Remove Programs / Add Remove Windows Components /
|||||| Accessories and Utilities / [Details...] / Games / click [Details...] button
||||
||||
|||| --
|||| Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
|||| Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
||||
|||| Visit my MSN Games and Windows Gaming Help Site: www.msce.mvps.org
|||| 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.
|||| _________________________________________________________
||||
|||| KayMil01 Wrote:
|||| =================
||||| Hey, I followed your instructions, and for some reason, the games I want
||||| back, still aren't appearing in the games folder...just Internet backgammon,
||||| Internet checkers, Internet Hearts etc. are there, but not pinball, hearts,
||||| solitaire, spider solitaire, mindsweeper, etc. are not showing up in the
||||| games folder. Did I do something wrong?
|||||
||||| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|||||
|||||| Hi KayMil01,
||||||
|||||| To add/remove Windows XP Games: Click START / Control Panel /
|||||| Add or Remove Programs / Add Remove Windows Components /
|||||| Accessories and Utilities / [Details...] / Games / [Details...] / then check
|||||| (or uncheck and then recheck the game) / Click [OK] 3 times to finish.
||||||
|||||| Pinball is not on that list by default. You may need to use these steps first:
||||||
|||||| 1. Choose Start / Run / Copy+Paste the next line into the RUN box and press [ENTER]:
|||||| notepad %SystemRoot%\Inf\Sysoc.inf
||||||
|||||| 2. Scroll down to the line that reads: Pinball=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,pinball.inf,HIDE,7
|||||| and delete the word HIDE from the line so it now reads: Pinball=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,pinball.inf,,7
||||||
|||||| 3. Click File / Exit and choose YES to save the changes you made to the file.
||||||
|||||| 4. Click Start / Settings / Control Panel / Add-Remove Programs and follow the
|||||| instructions posted in the first paragraph to reinstall Pinball now that it's on the list.
||||||
|||||| --
|||||| Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
|||||| Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
||||||
|||||| Visit my MSN Games and Windows Gaming Help Site: www.msce.mvps.org
|||||| 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.
|||||| _________________________________________________________
||||||
||||||
|||||| KayMil01 Wrote:
|||||| =================
||||||| I don't know what happened, but recently, I noticed the general games on my
||||||| computer (solitaire, hearts, pinball etc.) are gone! I go into programs, look
||||||| in the games folder, and it says it's empty. I don't know what could have
||||||| caused the games to disappear. Is there anything I can do to get them back?
||||||| thanks.
Click to expand...
 
J

Jimmy S.

Hi KayMil01,

If you have your Windows XP HOME CD, insert it.
If you don't have the CD, browse to the I386 folder on C:

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

Visit my MSN Games and Windows Gaming Help Site: www.msce.mvps.org
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.
_________________________________________________________
\
KayMil01 Wrote:
=================
| Me again. ugh I'm just having a heck of a time with this...
|
| Alrighty, I followed the steps, but NOW when I click next, it starts to do
| it's thing, but then a box pops up saying: "The file '(name of the game).exe'
| on Windows XP Home Edition CD-ROM is needed. Type the path where the file is
| located and then click OK."
|
| What do I do this time? thanks.
|
| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|
|| Hi KayMil01,
||
|| Yes you would have to click Next in this situation, here's the steps:
||
|| Click START / Control Panel /
||||||| Add or Remove Programs / Add Remove Windows Components /
||||||| Accessories and Utilities / [Details...] / Games / [Details...]
||||||| (or uncheck and then recheck the game) / [OK] / [OK] / [Next]
||
||
|| --
|| Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
|| Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
||
|| Visit my MSN Games and Windows Gaming Help Site: www.msce.mvps.org
|| 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.
|| _________________________________________________________
||
|| KayMil01 Wrote:
|| =================
||| Ok, I unchecked all the games, and re-checked them, and the games still don't
||| appear in the games folder...it says it's empty. After clicking ok twice, and
||| am I suppose to click 'next' in the windows components wizard? cause
||| sometimes I did hit next, and other times I didn't...I don't know, I think I
||| still may be doing something wrong?
|||
||| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|||
|||| Hi KayMil01,
||||
|||| Okay, I would like you to uncheck all those games, click OK and then
|||| go back in and check them all once again to trigger their reinstallation. :)
||||
|||| --
|||| Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
|||| Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
||||
|||| Visit my MSN Games and Windows Gaming Help Site: www.msce.mvps.org
|||| 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.
|||| _________________________________________________________
||||
|||| KayMil01 Wrote:
|||| =================
||||| Ok, the games that are checkmarked are: Freecell, Hearts, Z Internet Games,
||||| Minesweeper, Pinball, Solitaire, and Spider Solitaire.
|||||
||||| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|||||
|||||| Hi KayMil01,
||||||
|||||| Go through these steps please and report back with which games
|||||| you find with checkmarks next to them:
||||||
|||||||| To add/remove Windows XP Games: Click START / Control Panel /
|||||||| Add or Remove Programs / Add Remove Windows Components /
|||||||| Accessories and Utilities / [Details...] / Games / click [Details...] button
||||||
||||||
|||||| --
|||||| Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
|||||| Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
||||||
|||||| Visit my MSN Games and Windows Gaming Help Site: www.msce.mvps.org
|||||| 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.
|||||| _________________________________________________________
||||||
|||||| KayMil01 Wrote:
|||||| =================
||||||| Hey, I followed your instructions, and for some reason, the games I want
||||||| back, still aren't appearing in the games folder...just Internet backgammon,
||||||| Internet checkers, Internet Hearts etc. are there, but not pinball, hearts,
||||||| solitaire, spider solitaire, mindsweeper, etc. are not showing up in the
||||||| games folder. Did I do something wrong?
|||||||
||||||| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|||||||
|||||||| Hi KayMil01,
||||||||
|||||||| To add/remove Windows XP Games: Click START / Control Panel /
|||||||| Add or Remove Programs / Add Remove Windows Components /
|||||||| Accessories and Utilities / [Details...] / Games / [Details...] / then check
|||||||| (or uncheck and then recheck the game) / Click [OK] 3 times to finish.
||||||||
|||||||| Pinball is not on that list by default. You may need to use these steps first:
||||||||
|||||||| 1. Choose Start / Run / Copy+Paste the next line into the RUN box and press [ENTER]:
|||||||| notepad %SystemRoot%\Inf\Sysoc.inf
||||||||
|||||||| 2. Scroll down to the line that reads: Pinball=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,pinball.inf,HIDE,7
|||||||| and delete the word HIDE from the line so it now reads: Pinball=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,pinball.inf,,7
||||||||
|||||||| 3. Click File / Exit and choose YES to save the changes you made to the file.
||||||||
|||||||| 4. Click Start / Settings / Control Panel / Add-Remove Programs and follow the
|||||||| instructions posted in the first paragraph to reinstall Pinball now that it's on the list.
||||||||
|||||||| --
|||||||| Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
|||||||| Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
||||||||
|||||||| Visit my MSN Games and Windows Gaming Help Site: www.msce.mvps.org
|||||||| 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.
|||||||| _________________________________________________________
||||||||
||||||||
|||||||| KayMil01 Wrote:
|||||||| =================
||||||||| I don't know what happened, but recently, I noticed the general games on my
||||||||| computer (solitaire, hearts, pinball etc.) are gone! I go into programs, look
||||||||| in the games folder, and it says it's empty. I don't know what could have
||||||||| caused the games to disappear. Is there anything I can do to get them back?
||||||||| thanks.
 
G

Guest

Yes! that worked with the cd...all the games are now back. Thanks so much for
all the help! :-D

Jimmy S. said:
Hi KayMil01,

If you have your Windows XP HOME CD, insert it.
If you don't have the CD, browse to the I386 folder on C:

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

Visit my MSN Games and Windows Gaming Help Site: www.msce.mvps.org
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.
_________________________________________________________
\
KayMil01 Wrote:
=================
| Me again. ugh I'm just having a heck of a time with this...
|
| Alrighty, I followed the steps, but NOW when I click next, it starts to do
| it's thing, but then a box pops up saying: "The file '(name of the game).exe'
| on Windows XP Home Edition CD-ROM is needed. Type the path where the file is
| located and then click OK."
|
| What do I do this time? thanks.
|
| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|
|| Hi KayMil01,
||
|| Yes you would have to click Next in this situation, here's the steps:
||
|| Click START / Control Panel /
||||||| Add or Remove Programs / Add Remove Windows Components /
||||||| Accessories and Utilities / [Details...] / Games / [Details...]
||||||| (or uncheck and then recheck the game) / [OK] / [OK] / [Next]
||
||
|| --
|| Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
|| Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
||
|| Visit my MSN Games and Windows Gaming Help Site: www.msce.mvps.org
|| 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.
|| _________________________________________________________
||
|| KayMil01 Wrote:
|| =================
||| Ok, I unchecked all the games, and re-checked them, and the games still don't
||| appear in the games folder...it says it's empty. After clicking ok twice, and
||| am I suppose to click 'next' in the windows components wizard? cause
||| sometimes I did hit next, and other times I didn't...I don't know, I think I
||| still may be doing something wrong?
|||
||| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|||
|||| Hi KayMil01,
||||
|||| Okay, I would like you to uncheck all those games, click OK and then
|||| go back in and check them all once again to trigger their reinstallation. :)
||||
|||| --
|||| Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
|||| Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
||||
|||| Visit my MSN Games and Windows Gaming Help Site: www.msce.mvps.org
|||| 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.
|||| _________________________________________________________
||||
|||| KayMil01 Wrote:
|||| =================
||||| Ok, the games that are checkmarked are: Freecell, Hearts, Z Internet Games,
||||| Minesweeper, Pinball, Solitaire, and Spider Solitaire.
|||||
||||| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|||||
|||||| Hi KayMil01,
||||||
|||||| Go through these steps please and report back with which games
|||||| you find with checkmarks next to them:
||||||
|||||||| To add/remove Windows XP Games: Click START / Control Panel /
|||||||| Add or Remove Programs / Add Remove Windows Components /
|||||||| Accessories and Utilities / [Details...] / Games / click [Details...] button
||||||
||||||
|||||| --
|||||| Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
|||||| Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
||||||
|||||| Visit my MSN Games and Windows Gaming Help Site: www.msce.mvps.org
|||||| 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.
|||||| _________________________________________________________
||||||
|||||| KayMil01 Wrote:
|||||| =================
||||||| Hey, I followed your instructions, and for some reason, the games I want
||||||| back, still aren't appearing in the games folder...just Internet backgammon,
||||||| Internet checkers, Internet Hearts etc. are there, but not pinball, hearts,
||||||| solitaire, spider solitaire, mindsweeper, etc. are not showing up in the
||||||| games folder. Did I do something wrong?
|||||||
||||||| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|||||||
|||||||| Hi KayMil01,
||||||||
|||||||| To add/remove Windows XP Games: Click START / Control Panel /
|||||||| Add or Remove Programs / Add Remove Windows Components /
|||||||| Accessories and Utilities / [Details...] / Games / [Details...] / then check
|||||||| (or uncheck and then recheck the game) / Click [OK] 3 times to finish.
||||||||
|||||||| Pinball is not on that list by default. You may need to use these steps first:
||||||||
|||||||| 1. Choose Start / Run / Copy+Paste the next line into the RUN box and press [ENTER]:
|||||||| notepad %SystemRoot%\Inf\Sysoc.inf
||||||||
|||||||| 2. Scroll down to the line that reads: Pinball=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,pinball.inf,HIDE,7
|||||||| and delete the word HIDE from the line so it now reads: Pinball=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,pinball.inf,,7
||||||||
|||||||| 3. Click File / Exit and choose YES to save the changes you made to the file.
||||||||
|||||||| 4. Click Start / Settings / Control Panel / Add-Remove Programs and follow the
|||||||| instructions posted in the first paragraph to reinstall Pinball now that it's on the list.
||||||||
|||||||| --
|||||||| Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
|||||||| Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
||||||||
|||||||| Visit my MSN Games and Windows Gaming Help Site: www.msce.mvps.org
|||||||| 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.
|||||||| _________________________________________________________
||||||||
||||||||
|||||||| KayMil01 Wrote:
|||||||| =================
||||||||| I don't know what happened, but recently, I noticed the general games on my
||||||||| computer (solitaire, hearts, pinball etc.) are gone! I go into programs, look
||||||||| in the games folder, and it says it's empty. I don't know what could have
||||||||| caused the games to disappear. Is there anything I can do to get them back?
||||||||| thanks.
Click to expand...
 
J

Jimmy S.

Hi KayMil01,

Wonderful news! Glad we were both patient enough to fix the problem. :)

KayMil01 Wrote:
=================
| Yes! that worked with the cd...all the games are now back. Thanks so much for
| all the help! :-D
|
| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|
|| Hi KayMil01,
||
|| If you have your Windows XP HOME CD, insert it.
|| If you don't have the CD, browse to the I386 folder on C:
||
|| --
|| Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
|| Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
||
|| Visit my MSN Games and Windows Gaming Help Site: www.msce.mvps.org
|| 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.
|| _________________________________________________________
|| \
|| KayMil01 Wrote:
|| =================
||| Me again. ugh I'm just having a heck of a time with this...
|||
||| Alrighty, I followed the steps, but NOW when I click next, it starts to do
||| it's thing, but then a box pops up saying: "The file '(name of the game).exe'
||| on Windows XP Home Edition CD-ROM is needed. Type the path where the file is
||| located and then click OK."
|||
||| What do I do this time? thanks.
|||
||| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|||
|||| Hi KayMil01,
||||
|||| Yes you would have to click Next in this situation, here's the steps:
||||
|||| Click START / Control Panel /
||||||||| Add or Remove Programs / Add Remove Windows Components /
||||||||| Accessories and Utilities / [Details...] / Games / [Details...]
||||||||| (or uncheck and then recheck the game) / [OK] / [OK] / [Next]
||||
||||
|||| --
|||| Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
|||| Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
||||
|||| Visit my MSN Games and Windows Gaming Help Site: www.msce.mvps.org
|||| 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.
|||| _________________________________________________________
||||
|||| KayMil01 Wrote:
|||| =================
||||| Ok, I unchecked all the games, and re-checked them, and the games still don't
||||| appear in the games folder...it says it's empty. After clicking ok twice, and
||||| am I suppose to click 'next' in the windows components wizard? cause
||||| sometimes I did hit next, and other times I didn't...I don't know, I think I
||||| still may be doing something wrong?
|||||
||||| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|||||
|||||| Hi KayMil01,
||||||
|||||| Okay, I would like you to uncheck all those games, click OK and then
|||||| go back in and check them all once again to trigger their reinstallation. :)
||||||
|||||| --
|||||| Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
|||||| Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
||||||
|||||| Visit my MSN Games and Windows Gaming Help Site: www.msce.mvps.org
|||||| 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.
|||||| _________________________________________________________
||||||
|||||| KayMil01 Wrote:
|||||| =================
||||||| Ok, the games that are checkmarked are: Freecell, Hearts, Z Internet Games,
||||||| Minesweeper, Pinball, Solitaire, and Spider Solitaire.
|||||||
||||||| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|||||||
|||||||| Hi KayMil01,
||||||||
|||||||| Go through these steps please and report back with which games
|||||||| you find with checkmarks next to them:
||||||||
|||||||||| To add/remove Windows XP Games: Click START / Control Panel /
|||||||||| Add or Remove Programs / Add Remove Windows Components /
|||||||||| Accessories and Utilities / [Details...] / Games / click [Details...] button
||||||||
||||||||
|||||||| --
|||||||| Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
|||||||| Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
||||||||
|||||||| Visit my MSN Games and Windows Gaming Help Site: www.msce.mvps.org
|||||||| 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.
|||||||| _________________________________________________________
||||||||
|||||||| KayMil01 Wrote:
|||||||| =================
||||||||| Hey, I followed your instructions, and for some reason, the games I want
||||||||| back, still aren't appearing in the games folder...just Internet backgammon,
||||||||| Internet checkers, Internet Hearts etc. are there, but not pinball, hearts,
||||||||| solitaire, spider solitaire, mindsweeper, etc. are not showing up in the
||||||||| games folder. Did I do something wrong?
|||||||||
||||||||| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|||||||||
|||||||||| Hi KayMil01,
||||||||||
|||||||||| To add/remove Windows XP Games: Click START / Control Panel /
|||||||||| Add or Remove Programs / Add Remove Windows Components /
|||||||||| Accessories and Utilities / [Details...] / Games / [Details...] / then check
|||||||||| (or uncheck and then recheck the game) / Click [OK] 3 times to finish.
||||||||||
|||||||||| Pinball is not on that list by default. You may need to use these steps first:
||||||||||
|||||||||| 1. Choose Start / Run / Copy+Paste the next line into the RUN box and press [ENTER]:
|||||||||| notepad %SystemRoot%\Inf\Sysoc.inf
||||||||||
|||||||||| 2. Scroll down to the line that reads: Pinball=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,pinball.inf,HIDE,7
|||||||||| and delete the word HIDE from the line so it now reads: Pinball=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,pinball.inf,,7
||||||||||
|||||||||| 3. Click File / Exit and choose YES to save the changes you made to the file.
||||||||||
|||||||||| 4. Click Start / Settings / Control Panel / Add-Remove Programs and follow the
|||||||||| instructions posted in the first paragraph to reinstall Pinball now that it's on the list.
||||||||||
|||||||||| --
|||||||||| Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
|||||||||| Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
||||||||||
|||||||||| Visit my MSN Games and Windows Gaming Help Site: www.msce.mvps.org
|||||||||| 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.
|||||||||| _________________________________________________________
||||||||||
||||||||||
|||||||||| KayMil01 Wrote:
|||||||||| =================
||||||||||| I don't know what happened, but recently, I noticed the general games on my
||||||||||| computer (solitaire, hearts, pinball etc.) are gone! I go into programs, look
||||||||||| in the games folder, and it says it's empty. I don't know what could have
||||||||||| caused the games to disappear. Is there anything I can do to get them back?
||||||||||| thanks.
 
G

Guest

I'm also having terrible trouble with pinball. I've followed the instructions
to edit the %System Root%... file but I can never get Pinball to reappear on
the list. I have cheked that the changes were actually made to the file and
they have been.

I have tried uninstalling and re-installing all the games. Whatever I do,
Pinball crashes after a few minutes play.

I expect this is just coincidence but the problem seemed to start soon after
I installed Visual Basic Express.

ANy help would be much appreciated.

Regards,

Rich
 
J

Jimmy S.

Hi RichLeyshon,

Next time you reproduce a Pinball crash, check your Event Viewer
(in Control Panel > Admnistrative Tools) for any Error entries under
either System or Application. They usually include a hyperlink.

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

Visit my MSN Games and Windows Gaming Help Site: www.msce.mvps.org
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.
_________________________________________________________

RichLeyshon Wrote:
=================
| I'm also having terrible trouble with pinball. I've followed the instructions
| to edit the %System Root%... file but I can never get Pinball to reappear on
| the list. I have cheked that the changes were actually made to the file and
| they have been.
|
| I have tried uninstalling and re-installing all the games. Whatever I do,
| Pinball crashes after a few minutes play.
|
| I expect this is just coincidence but the problem seemed to start soon after
| I installed Visual Basic Express.
|
| ANy help would be much appreciated.
|
| Regards,
|
| Rich
|
| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|
|| Hi KayMil01,
||
|| To add/remove Windows XP Games: Click START / Control Panel /
|| Add or Remove Programs / Add Remove Windows Components /
|| Accessories and Utilities / [Details...] / Games / [Details...] / then check
|| (or uncheck and then recheck the game) / Click [OK] 3 times to finish.
||
|| Pinball is not on that list by default. You may need to use these steps first:
||
|| 1. Choose Start / Run / Copy+Paste the next line into the RUN box and press [ENTER]:
|| notepad %SystemRoot%\Inf\Sysoc.inf
||
|| 2. Scroll down to the line that reads: Pinball=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,pinball.inf,HIDE,7
|| and delete the word HIDE from the line so it now reads: Pinball=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,pinball.inf,,7
||
|| 3. Click File / Exit and choose YES to save the changes you made to the file.
||
|| 4. Click Start / Settings / Control Panel / Add-Remove Programs and follow the
|| instructions posted in the first paragraph to reinstall Pinball now that it's on the list.
||
|| --
|| Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
|| Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
||
|| Visit my MSN Games and Windows Gaming Help Site: www.msce.mvps.org
|| 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.
|| _________________________________________________________
||
||
|| KayMil01 Wrote:
|| =================
||| I don't know what happened, but recently, I noticed the general games on my
||| computer (solitaire, hearts, pinball etc.) are gone! I go into programs, look
||| in the games folder, and it says it's empty. I don't know what could have
||| caused the games to disappear. Is there anything I can do to get them back?
||| thanks.
 
G

Guest

Hi Jimmy,

Two events were generated in the log and they are listed below. All a bit
out of my league I'm afraid.

Regards,

Rich

Details
Product: Windows Operating System
Event ID: 1001
Source: Application Error
Version: 5.2
Symbolic Name: DW_BUCKET_LOG
Message: Fault bucket %1.



Details
Product: Windows Operating System
Event ID: 1000
Source: Application Error
Version: 5.2
Symbolic Name: ER_USERCRASH_LOG
Message: Faulting application %1, version %2, faulting module %3, version
%4, fault address 0x%5




Jimmy S. said:
Hi RichLeyshon,

Next time you reproduce a Pinball crash, check your Event Viewer
(in Control Panel > Admnistrative Tools) for any Error entries under
either System or Application. They usually include a hyperlink.

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

Visit my MSN Games and Windows Gaming Help Site: www.msce.mvps.org
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.
_________________________________________________________

RichLeyshon Wrote:
=================
| I'm also having terrible trouble with pinball. I've followed the instructions
| to edit the %System Root%... file but I can never get Pinball to reappear on
| the list. I have cheked that the changes were actually made to the file and
| they have been.
|
| I have tried uninstalling and re-installing all the games. Whatever I do,
| Pinball crashes after a few minutes play.
|
| I expect this is just coincidence but the problem seemed to start soon after
| I installed Visual Basic Express.
|
| ANy help would be much appreciated.
|
| Regards,
|
| Rich
|
| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|
|| Hi KayMil01,
||
|| To add/remove Windows XP Games: Click START / Control Panel /
|| Add or Remove Programs / Add Remove Windows Components /
|| Accessories and Utilities / [Details...] / Games / [Details...] / then check
|| (or uncheck and then recheck the game) / Click [OK] 3 times to finish.
||
|| Pinball is not on that list by default. You may need to use these steps first:
||
|| 1. Choose Start / Run / Copy+Paste the next line into the RUN box and press [ENTER]:
|| notepad %SystemRoot%\Inf\Sysoc.inf
||
|| 2. Scroll down to the line that reads: Pinball=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,pinball.inf,HIDE,7
|| and delete the word HIDE from the line so it now reads: Pinball=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,pinball.inf,,7
||
|| 3. Click File / Exit and choose YES to save the changes you made to the file.
||
|| 4. Click Start / Settings / Control Panel / Add-Remove Programs and follow the
|| instructions posted in the first paragraph to reinstall Pinball now that it's on the list.
||
|| --
|| Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
|| Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
||
|| Visit my MSN Games and Windows Gaming Help Site: www.msce.mvps.org
|| 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.
|| _________________________________________________________
||
||
|| KayMil01 Wrote:
|| =================
||| I don't know what happened, but recently, I noticed the general games on my
||| computer (solitaire, hearts, pinball etc.) are gone! I go into programs, look
||| in the games folder, and it says it's empty. I don't know what could have
||| caused the games to disappear. Is there anything I can do to get them back?
||| thanks.
Click to expand...
 
J

Jimmy S.

Hi RichLeyshon,

Those events usually include a clickable URL / Hyperlink which will
return a recommendation from the Microsoft Knowledgebase.

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

Visit my MSN Games and Windows Gaming Help Site: www.msce.mvps.org
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.
_________________________________________________________

RichLeyshon Wrote:
=================
| Hi Jimmy,
|
| Two events were generated in the log and they are listed below. All a bit
| out of my league I'm afraid.
|
| Regards,
|
| Rich
|
| Details
| Product: Windows Operating System
| Event ID: 1001
| Source: Application Error
| Version: 5.2
| Symbolic Name: DW_BUCKET_LOG
| Message: Fault bucket %1.
|
|
|
| Details
| Product: Windows Operating System
| Event ID: 1000
| Source: Application Error
| Version: 5.2
| Symbolic Name: ER_USERCRASH_LOG
| Message: Faulting application %1, version %2, faulting module %3, version
| %4, fault address 0x%5
|
|
|
|
| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|
|| Hi RichLeyshon,
||
|| Next time you reproduce a Pinball crash, check your Event Viewer
|| (in Control Panel > Admnistrative Tools) for any Error entries under
|| either System or Application. They usually include a hyperlink.
||
|| --
|| Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
|| Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
||
|| Visit my MSN Games and Windows Gaming Help Site: www.msce.mvps.org
|| 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.
|| _________________________________________________________
||
|| RichLeyshon Wrote:
|| =================
||| I'm also having terrible trouble with pinball. I've followed the instructions
||| to edit the %System Root%... file but I can never get Pinball to reappear on
||| the list. I have cheked that the changes were actually made to the file and
||| they have been.
|||
||| I have tried uninstalling and re-installing all the games. Whatever I do,
||| Pinball crashes after a few minutes play.
|||
||| I expect this is just coincidence but the problem seemed to start soon after
||| I installed Visual Basic Express.
|||
||| ANy help would be much appreciated.
|||
||| Regards,
|||
||| Rich
|||
||| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|||
|||| Hi KayMil01,
||||
|||| To add/remove Windows XP Games: Click START / Control Panel /
|||| Add or Remove Programs / Add Remove Windows Components /
|||| Accessories and Utilities / [Details...] / Games / [Details...] / then check
|||| (or uncheck and then recheck the game) / Click [OK] 3 times to finish.
||||
|||| Pinball is not on that list by default. You may need to use these steps first:
||||
|||| 1. Choose Start / Run / Copy+Paste the next line into the RUN box and press [ENTER]:
|||| notepad %SystemRoot%\Inf\Sysoc.inf
||||
|||| 2. Scroll down to the line that reads: Pinball=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,pinball.inf,HIDE,7
|||| and delete the word HIDE from the line so it now reads: Pinball=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,pinball.inf,,7
||||
|||| 3. Click File / Exit and choose YES to save the changes you made to the file.
||||
|||| 4. Click Start / Settings / Control Panel / Add-Remove Programs and follow the
|||| instructions posted in the first paragraph to reinstall Pinball now that it's on the list.
||||
|||| --
|||| Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
|||| Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
||||
|||| Visit my MSN Games and Windows Gaming Help Site: www.msce.mvps.org
|||| 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.
|||| _________________________________________________________
||||
||||
|||| KayMil01 Wrote:
|||| =================
||||| I don't know what happened, but recently, I noticed the general games on my
||||| computer (solitaire, hearts, pinball etc.) are gone! I go into programs, look
||||| in the games folder, and it says it's empty. I don't know what could have
||||| caused the games to disappear. Is there anything I can do to get them back?
||||| thanks.
 
C

Chris H.

Specifically on Pinball alone, it has never appeared on the list in Control
Panel/Add or Remove Windows Components/Accessories/Games. For some reason,
Microsoft kept it a separate path even though it is listed under All
Programs/Games.

If mine gets deleted for some reason (more own stupidity), I open Windows
Explorer, then navigate to the C:\Program Files\Windows NT\Pinball directory
and drag/drop a link for the pinball.exe file to my desktop as a Shortcut.
--
Chris H.
Microsoft Windows MVP/Tablet PC
Tablet Creations - http://nicecreations.us/
Associate Expert
Expert Zone -


RichLeyshon said:
I'm also having terrible trouble with pinball. I've followed the
instructions
to edit the %System Root%... file but I can never get Pinball to reappear
on
the list. I have cheked that the changes were actually made to the file
and
they have been.

I have tried uninstalling and re-installing all the games. Whatever I do,
Pinball crashes after a few minutes play.

I expect this is just coincidence but the problem seemed to start soon
after
I installed Visual Basic Express.

ANy help would be much appreciated.

Regards,

Rich

Jimmy S. said:
Hi KayMil01,

To add/remove Windows XP Games: Click START / Control Panel /
Add or Remove Programs / Add Remove Windows Components /
Accessories and Utilities / [Details...] / Games / [Details...] / then
check
(or uncheck and then recheck the game) / Click [OK] 3 times to finish.

Pinball is not on that list by default. You may need to use these steps
first:

1. Choose Start / Run / Copy+Paste the next line into the RUN box and
press [ENTER]:
notepad %SystemRoot%\Inf\Sysoc.inf

2. Scroll down to the line that reads:
Pinball=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,pinball.inf,HIDE,7
and delete the word HIDE from the line so it now reads:
Pinball=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,pinball.inf,,7

3. Click File / Exit and choose YES to save the changes you made to the
file.

4. Click Start / Settings / Control Panel / Add-Remove Programs and
follow the
instructions posted in the first paragraph to reinstall Pinball now that
it's on the list.

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

Visit my MSN Games and Windows Gaming Help Site: www.msce.mvps.org
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.
_________________________________________________________


KayMil01 Wrote:
=================
| I don't know what happened, but recently, I noticed the general games
on my
| computer (solitaire, hearts, pinball etc.) are gone! I go into
programs, look
| in the games folder, and it says it's empty. I don't know what could
have
| caused the games to disappear. Is there anything I can do to get them
back?
| thanks.
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 
G

Guest

Jimmy,

Yes, it does that but I don't see anything (that I understand) that seems to
reflect my problem. I am at a loss to know what to do next.

Rich

Jimmy S. said:
Hi RichLeyshon,

Those events usually include a clickable URL / Hyperlink which will
return a recommendation from the Microsoft Knowledgebase.

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

Visit my MSN Games and Windows Gaming Help Site: www.msce.mvps.org
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.
_________________________________________________________

RichLeyshon Wrote:
=================
| Hi Jimmy,
|
| Two events were generated in the log and they are listed below. All a bit
| out of my league I'm afraid.
|
| Regards,
|
| Rich
|
| Details
| Product: Windows Operating System
| Event ID: 1001
| Source: Application Error
| Version: 5.2
| Symbolic Name: DW_BUCKET_LOG
| Message: Fault bucket %1.
|
|
|
| Details
| Product: Windows Operating System
| Event ID: 1000
| Source: Application Error
| Version: 5.2
| Symbolic Name: ER_USERCRASH_LOG
| Message: Faulting application %1, version %2, faulting module %3, version
| %4, fault address 0x%5
|
|
|
|
| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|
|| Hi RichLeyshon,
||
|| Next time you reproduce a Pinball crash, check your Event Viewer
|| (in Control Panel > Admnistrative Tools) for any Error entries under
|| either System or Application. They usually include a hyperlink.
||
|| --
|| Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
|| Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
||
|| Visit my MSN Games and Windows Gaming Help Site: www.msce.mvps.org
|| 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.
|| _________________________________________________________
||
|| RichLeyshon Wrote:
|| =================
||| I'm also having terrible trouble with pinball. I've followed the instructions
||| to edit the %System Root%... file but I can never get Pinball to reappear on
||| the list. I have cheked that the changes were actually made to the file and
||| they have been.
|||
||| I have tried uninstalling and re-installing all the games. Whatever I do,
||| Pinball crashes after a few minutes play.
|||
||| I expect this is just coincidence but the problem seemed to start soon after
||| I installed Visual Basic Express.
|||
||| ANy help would be much appreciated.
|||
||| Regards,
|||
||| Rich
|||
||| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|||
|||| Hi KayMil01,
||||
|||| To add/remove Windows XP Games: Click START / Control Panel /
|||| Add or Remove Programs / Add Remove Windows Components /
|||| Accessories and Utilities / [Details...] / Games / [Details...] / then check
|||| (or uncheck and then recheck the game) / Click [OK] 3 times to finish.
||||
|||| Pinball is not on that list by default. You may need to use these steps first:
||||
|||| 1. Choose Start / Run / Copy+Paste the next line into the RUN box and press [ENTER]:
|||| notepad %SystemRoot%\Inf\Sysoc.inf
||||
|||| 2. Scroll down to the line that reads: Pinball=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,pinball.inf,HIDE,7
|||| and delete the word HIDE from the line so it now reads: Pinball=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,pinball.inf,,7
||||
|||| 3. Click File / Exit and choose YES to save the changes you made to the file.
||||
|||| 4. Click Start / Settings / Control Panel / Add-Remove Programs and follow the
|||| instructions posted in the first paragraph to reinstall Pinball now that it's on the list.
||||
|||| --
|||| Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
|||| Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
||||
|||| Visit my MSN Games and Windows Gaming Help Site: www.msce.mvps.org
|||| 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.
|||| _________________________________________________________
||||
||||
|||| KayMil01 Wrote:
|||| =================
||||| I don't know what happened, but recently, I noticed the general games on my
||||| computer (solitaire, hearts, pinball etc.) are gone! I go into programs, look
||||| in the games folder, and it says it's empty. I don't know what could have
||||| caused the games to disappear. Is there anything I can do to get them back?
||||| thanks.
Click to expand...
 
J

Jimmy S.

Hi RichLeyshon,

Since this started after you installed a specific application,
uninstall that application, and test Pinball sucessfully before
you reinstall the application. It can make a difference.

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

Visit my MSN Games and Windows Gaming Help Site: www.msce.mvps.org
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.
_________________________________________________________

RichLeyshon Wrote:
=================
| Jimmy,
|
| Yes, it does that but I don't see anything (that I understand) that seems to
| reflect my problem. I am at a loss to know what to do next.
|
| Rich
|
| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|
|| Hi RichLeyshon,
||
|| Those events usually include a clickable URL / Hyperlink which will
|| return a recommendation from the Microsoft Knowledgebase.
||
|| --
|| Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
|| Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
||
|| Visit my MSN Games and Windows Gaming Help Site: www.msce.mvps.org
|| 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.
|| _________________________________________________________
||
|| RichLeyshon Wrote:
|| =================
||| Hi Jimmy,
|||
||| Two events were generated in the log and they are listed below. All a bit
||| out of my league I'm afraid.
|||
||| Regards,
|||
||| Rich
|||
||| Details
||| Product: Windows Operating System
||| Event ID: 1001
||| Source: Application Error
||| Version: 5.2
||| Symbolic Name: DW_BUCKET_LOG
||| Message: Fault bucket %1.
|||
|||
|||
||| Details
||| Product: Windows Operating System
||| Event ID: 1000
||| Source: Application Error
||| Version: 5.2
||| Symbolic Name: ER_USERCRASH_LOG
||| Message: Faulting application %1, version %2, faulting module %3, version
||| %4, fault address 0x%5
|||
|||
|||
|||
||| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|||
|||| Hi RichLeyshon,
||||
|||| Next time you reproduce a Pinball crash, check your Event Viewer
|||| (in Control Panel > Admnistrative Tools) for any Error entries under
|||| either System or Application. They usually include a hyperlink.
||||
|||| --
|||| Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
|||| Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
||||
|||| Visit my MSN Games and Windows Gaming Help Site: www.msce.mvps.org
|||| 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.
|||| _________________________________________________________
||||
|||| RichLeyshon Wrote:
|||| =================
||||| I'm also having terrible trouble with pinball. I've followed the instructions
||||| to edit the %System Root%... file but I can never get Pinball to reappear on
||||| the list. I have cheked that the changes were actually made to the file and
||||| they have been.
|||||
||||| I have tried uninstalling and re-installing all the games. Whatever I do,
||||| Pinball crashes after a few minutes play.
|||||
||||| I expect this is just coincidence but the problem seemed to start soon after
||||| I installed Visual Basic Express.
|||||
||||| ANy help would be much appreciated.
|||||
||||| Regards,
|||||
||||| Rich
|||||
||||| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|||||
|||||| Hi KayMil01,
||||||
|||||| To add/remove Windows XP Games: Click START / Control Panel /
|||||| Add or Remove Programs / Add Remove Windows Components /
|||||| Accessories and Utilities / [Details...] / Games / [Details...] / then check
|||||| (or uncheck and then recheck the game) / Click [OK] 3 times to finish.
||||||
|||||| Pinball is not on that list by default. You may need to use these steps first:
||||||
|||||| 1. Choose Start / Run / Copy+Paste the next line into the RUN box and press [ENTER]:
|||||| notepad %SystemRoot%\Inf\Sysoc.inf
||||||
|||||| 2. Scroll down to the line that reads: Pinball=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,pinball.inf,HIDE,7
|||||| and delete the word HIDE from the line so it now reads: Pinball=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,pinball.inf,,7
||||||
|||||| 3. Click File / Exit and choose YES to save the changes you made to the file.
||||||
|||||| 4. Click Start / Settings / Control Panel / Add-Remove Programs and follow the
|||||| instructions posted in the first paragraph to reinstall Pinball now that it's on the list.
||||||
|||||| --
|||||| Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
|||||| Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
||||||
|||||| Visit my MSN Games and Windows Gaming Help Site: www.msce.mvps.org
|||||| 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.
|||||| _________________________________________________________
||||||
||||||
|||||| KayMil01 Wrote:
|||||| =================
||||||| I don't know what happened, but recently, I noticed the general games on my
||||||| computer (solitaire, hearts, pinball etc.) are gone! I go into programs, look
||||||| in the games folder, and it says it's empty. I don't know what could have
||||||| caused the games to disappear. Is there anything I can do to get them back?
||||||| thanks.
 
G

Guest

I've tried uninstalling everything that I have added recently. I've checked
that I have all the latest XP SP2 updates. I've tried to use Add/Remove
Windows components. No luck.

Grrrrrrrr ....

Jimmy S. said:
Hi RichLeyshon,

Since this started after you installed a specific application,
uninstall that application, and test Pinball sucessfully before
you reinstall the application. It can make a difference.

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

Visit my MSN Games and Windows Gaming Help Site: www.msce.mvps.org
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.
_________________________________________________________

RichLeyshon Wrote:
=================
| Jimmy,
|
| Yes, it does that but I don't see anything (that I understand) that seems to
| reflect my problem. I am at a loss to know what to do next.
|
| Rich
|
| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|
|| Hi RichLeyshon,
||
|| Those events usually include a clickable URL / Hyperlink which will
|| return a recommendation from the Microsoft Knowledgebase.
||
|| --
|| Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
|| Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
||
|| Visit my MSN Games and Windows Gaming Help Site: www.msce.mvps.org
|| 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.
|| _________________________________________________________
||
|| RichLeyshon Wrote:
|| =================
||| Hi Jimmy,
|||
||| Two events were generated in the log and they are listed below. All a bit
||| out of my league I'm afraid.
|||
||| Regards,
|||
||| Rich
|||
||| Details
||| Product: Windows Operating System
||| Event ID: 1001
||| Source: Application Error
||| Version: 5.2
||| Symbolic Name: DW_BUCKET_LOG
||| Message: Fault bucket %1.
|||
|||
|||
||| Details
||| Product: Windows Operating System
||| Event ID: 1000
||| Source: Application Error
||| Version: 5.2
||| Symbolic Name: ER_USERCRASH_LOG
||| Message: Faulting application %1, version %2, faulting module %3, version
||| %4, fault address 0x%5
|||
|||
|||
|||
||| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|||
|||| Hi RichLeyshon,
||||
|||| Next time you reproduce a Pinball crash, check your Event Viewer
|||| (in Control Panel > Admnistrative Tools) for any Error entries under
|||| either System or Application. They usually include a hyperlink.
||||
|||| --
|||| Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
|||| Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
||||
|||| Visit my MSN Games and Windows Gaming Help Site: www.msce.mvps.org
|||| 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.
|||| _________________________________________________________
||||
|||| RichLeyshon Wrote:
|||| =================
||||| I'm also having terrible trouble with pinball. I've followed the instructions
||||| to edit the %System Root%... file but I can never get Pinball to reappear on
||||| the list. I have cheked that the changes were actually made to the file and
||||| they have been.
|||||
||||| I have tried uninstalling and re-installing all the games. Whatever I do,
||||| Pinball crashes after a few minutes play.
|||||
||||| I expect this is just coincidence but the problem seemed to start soon after
||||| I installed Visual Basic Express.
|||||
||||| ANy help would be much appreciated.
|||||
||||| Regards,
|||||
||||| Rich
|||||
||||| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|||||
|||||| Hi KayMil01,
||||||
|||||| To add/remove Windows XP Games: Click START / Control Panel /
|||||| Add or Remove Programs / Add Remove Windows Components /
|||||| Accessories and Utilities / [Details...] / Games / [Details...] / then check
|||||| (or uncheck and then recheck the game) / Click [OK] 3 times to finish.
||||||
|||||| Pinball is not on that list by default. You may need to use these steps first:
||||||
|||||| 1. Choose Start / Run / Copy+Paste the next line into the RUN box and press [ENTER]:
|||||| notepad %SystemRoot%\Inf\Sysoc.inf
||||||
|||||| 2. Scroll down to the line that reads: Pinball=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,pinball.inf,HIDE,7
|||||| and delete the word HIDE from the line so it now reads: Pinball=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,pinball.inf,,7
||||||
|||||| 3. Click File / Exit and choose YES to save the changes you made to the file.
||||||
|||||| 4. Click Start / Settings / Control Panel / Add-Remove Programs and follow the
|||||| instructions posted in the first paragraph to reinstall Pinball now that it's on the list.
||||||
|||||| --
|||||| Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
|||||| Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
||||||
|||||| Visit my MSN Games and Windows Gaming Help Site: www.msce.mvps.org
|||||| 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.
|||||| _________________________________________________________
||||||
||||||
|||||| KayMil01 Wrote:
|||||| =================
||||||| I don't know what happened, but recently, I noticed the general games on my
||||||| computer (solitaire, hearts, pinball etc.) are gone! I go into programs, look
||||||| in the games folder, and it says it's empty. I don't know what could have
||||||| caused the games to disappear. Is there anything I can do to get them back?
||||||| thanks.
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