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i have mistakingly deleted freecell, hearts,solitaire,minesweeper and the
inernet option games from the games menu. i do not have my xp home edition
disk so can they be downloaded or copied and installed from another computer?
many thanks,
 
jim said:
i have mistakingly deleted freecell, hearts,solitaire,minesweeper and the
inernet option games from the games menu. i do not have my xp home edition
disk so can they be downloaded or copied and installed from another
computer?
many thanks,
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You've (probably) just deleted the shortcuts to these games. In the first
place, check your Recycle Bin in case they're there.

You could recreate them by making shortcuts to
C:\WINDOWS\system32\freecell.exe, mshearts.exe, sol.exe, winmine.exe for the
non-Internet ones, etc, but it would be quicker to remove and re-add them as
components of Windows:

Control Panel > Add or Remove Programs > Add/Remove Windows Components >
Accessories and Utilities > Details button > Games

Untick it and OK your way out, then go back in and tick it, and OK your way
out. That should put them back in your menu.
 
thank you but the add remove windows components won't work without the disk
and when i tried runing freecell.exe it says not found. could i copy them or
the access and utilities bit from another computer to a usb mass storage
device and install them then please?
 
jim said:
thank you but the add remove windows components won't work without the
disk
and when i tried runing freecell.exe it says not found. could i copy them
or
the access and utilities bit from another computer to a usb mass storage
device and install them then please?
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Quite possibly you could copy and paste (not "install") the files with a USB
memory stick - give it a try. Not so "the access and utilities bit".

You won't be able to download them from the Internet - not from any legal
locations, anyway. But - what exactly did you *do* to get into this
position? You said you deleted items from the games menu - is this the menu
you get to after clicking on the Start button and then going to All Programs
(or just Programs)? Does the file freecell.exe exist in your system32
directory? It won't have been deleted by your merely deleting its shortcut.

Why don't you have the XP disc? It would be a good idea to sort yourself out
a replacement now, before you *really* need it! The person you got the
computer from should have provided a disc or means of making one - maybe
from files in a partition on the machine.
 
Thank you olorin, that has worked by pasteing them into system32 and making a
shortcut, i dont know how i managed to delete them. The shop where i bought
the computer from said that he would put it on for me and give me a disk to
take home when i got home however the disk was not there and thought i could
make a back up, but all attempts so far have failed. Do you know where i can
get a windows xp home edition repair disk or os disk please mate and thanks
again.
 
jim said:
Thank you olorin, that has worked by pasteing them into system32 and
making a
shortcut, i dont know how i managed to delete them. The shop where i
bought
the computer from said that he would put it on for me and give me a disk
to
take home when i got home however the disk was not there and thought i
could
make a back up, but all attempts so far have failed. Do you know where i
can
get a windows xp home edition repair disk or os disk please mate and
thanks
again.
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I believe the seller had an obligation to provide you with a disc or means
of making one - at the least, some means for you to be able to bring the
system back to the state it was in when you walked out of the shop.

You can't make one yourself from your installation (wouldn't that be a good
idea!) - only perhaps from a special partition that the maker might have
created with the necessary files in.

So rather than *you* running around trying to rustle a disc up, I'd say your
first step should be to contact the seller and get one from *him*, if that's
at all possible.

Other than that, it depends on exactly what version of XP you've got - OEM
or retail. You might be able to get a disc from the makers, eg Dell, Compaq
etc, via their website for a fee - though you said you have XP Home so I
think that narrows it down - I'm not sure it can be OEM and Home, others
here will jump in on that. There are different flavours of OEM, too.

re the Internet Games which you also said you're missing: here are the
shortcut names and names of the files they point to so you can re-create
them:

Internet Spades - target: "C:\Program Files\MSN Gaming
Zone\Windows\shvlzm.exe" - Start in: %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%
Internet Reversi - "C:\Program Files\MSN Gaming Zone\Windows\Rvsezm.exe",
rest the same
Internet Checkers - "C:\Program Files\MSN Gaming Zone\Windows\chkrzm.exe"
Internet Backgammon - "C:\Program Files\MSN Gaming Zone\Windows\bckgzm.exe"
Internet Hearts - "C:\Program Files\MSN Gaming Zone\Windows\hrtzzm.exe"

Were there others? I also have Spider Solitaire and Pinball in mine...
 
thanks very much for all your help mate
--
jim


Olórin said:
I believe the seller had an obligation to provide you with a disc or means
of making one - at the least, some means for you to be able to bring the
system back to the state it was in when you walked out of the shop.

You can't make one yourself from your installation (wouldn't that be a good
idea!) - only perhaps from a special partition that the maker might have
created with the necessary files in.

So rather than *you* running around trying to rustle a disc up, I'd say your
first step should be to contact the seller and get one from *him*, if that's
at all possible.

Other than that, it depends on exactly what version of XP you've got - OEM
or retail. You might be able to get a disc from the makers, eg Dell, Compaq
etc, via their website for a fee - though you said you have XP Home so I
think that narrows it down - I'm not sure it can be OEM and Home, others
here will jump in on that. There are different flavours of OEM, too.

re the Internet Games which you also said you're missing: here are the
shortcut names and names of the files they point to so you can re-create
them:

Internet Spades - target: "C:\Program Files\MSN Gaming
Zone\Windows\shvlzm.exe" - Start in: %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%
Internet Reversi - "C:\Program Files\MSN Gaming Zone\Windows\Rvsezm.exe",
rest the same
Internet Checkers - "C:\Program Files\MSN Gaming Zone\Windows\chkrzm.exe"
Internet Backgammon - "C:\Program Files\MSN Gaming Zone\Windows\bckgzm.exe"
Internet Hearts - "C:\Program Files\MSN Gaming Zone\Windows\hrtzzm.exe"

Were there others? I also have Spider Solitaire and Pinball in mine...
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Rahmat said:
Hi,
SP3 doesn;t have this game?
Where I can download online from internet?
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"SP3 doesn;t have this game?"

Which game are you talking about in this
statement-with-a-question-mark-tacked-on-the-end? Four plus Internet Games
are under discussion here.

And no, SP3 doesn't have the standard Windows games. It just doesn't. Did
you have them before installing SP3? Have you tried my previous suggestion
using Control Panel > Add or Remove Programs > Add/Remove Windows Components
Accessories and Utilities > Details button > Games? How about copying them
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over? Have you actually read the earlier posts in this thread?

I don't believe you can (legally) download these games, though I'm open to
correction here (eg TechNet subscribers?)
 
Olórin said:
You've (probably) just deleted the shortcuts to these games. In the first
place, check your Recycle Bin in case they're there.

You could recreate them by making shortcuts to
C:\WINDOWS\system32\freecell.exe, mshearts.exe, sol.exe, winmine.exe for the
non-Internet ones, etc, but it would be quicker to remove and re-add them as
components of Windows:

Control Panel > Add or Remove Programs > Add/Remove Windows Components >
Accessories and Utilities > Details button > Games

Untick it and OK your way out, then go back in and tick it, and OK your way
out. That should put them back in your menu.

to olorin
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THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU SO MUCH
I USED THE EXE INFO AND AM HAPPILY PLAYING MY GAMES AGAIN
YAY!!!!
 
Thanks so much! I tried the first route you gave and it wouldn't let me but
I was able to create the shortcut out of the following suggestion:
C:\Windows/system32\....*game you are missing* .exe.

Thanks again!
 
PD said:
Thanks so much! I tried the first route you gave and it wouldn't let me
but
I was able to create the shortcut out of the following suggestion:
C:\Windows/system32\....*game you are missing* .exe.

Thanks again!
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Glad it got you up and running!
 
jim said:
i have mistakingly deleted freecell, hearts,solitaire,minesweeper and the
inernet option games from the games menu. i do not have my xp home edition
disk so can they be downloaded or copied and installed from another computer?
many thanks,
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I'm thinking you MIGHT have only deleted the shortcuts to the games from
the menu (or deleted the menu itself) instead of deleting the games
themselves.

Use the Search function on the Start button's menu to look for the
following files and report back which are present on your hard drive and
what happens if you double click the file names in the search results.

freecell.exe

mshearts.exe

sol.exe

winmine.exe

spider.exe

bckgzm.exe

chkrzm.exe

hrtzzm.exe

Rvsezm.exe

shvlzm.exe
 
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