trouble with reinstalling paint/calculator

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my husband ran a disk cleanup on our computer and in the process deleted
paint and calculator from our computer and i need them back. i have done
some reading around on here and gone to add/remove programs and tried to
reinstall them. it starts the process and then prompts for the service pack
2 cd. i put it in the cd drive, hit ok, it takes me to another screen and i
hit and ok again, and then it doesn't do anything. there is a browse section
with which directory to look in. i have tried it with the default entry and
just entering d: since that is my cd drive and it won't work either way.
anyone have any ideas on what could be wrong or how i can get these programs
back? thanks!
 
Restore your computer to a restore point immediately before disk cleanup
took place.
 
I would if that were an option, but it's been a while since he did this. If
I restored, then I would lost a lot of information I need to hold onto.
 
Maybe just the shortcuts are missing.

Do these work?

Open Paint...
Start | Run | Type: mspaint | Click OK

Open Calculator
Start | Run | Type: calc | Click OK

Restore shortcuts to the Accessories group
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/Accessories.htm


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I thought that it was worth a shot. ;-(

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i don't know why it kept prompting me for the cd because i already had
service pack 2 installed. the default directory it kept giving me was
d:\i386. i finally figured out to change it to c:\i386 after a lot of
playing around and trying to get something to work and then it finally
renistalled it all. thanks for all the help!
 
Glad you got it figured out. Keep having fun.

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