Windows games disappeared

[Jimmy]

Pinball,Solitare and the rest of the games that come with
Windows are still on my Start Menu but when I click on
them, Windows does a search and says the links are
missing. I have looked on my c drive and they are not
there either I did not delete them but they disappeared.
All I have is a restore disk from my manufacturer and I
don't wish to restore xp just to get my games back.
Nothing else is messed up or missing and I have not had
any system crashes. What happened and is there anyway to
load or restore the games and nothing else?

[Michael Solomon \(MS-MVP Windows Shell/User\)]

Since you only have a restore disk, your only other option is to try using
System Restore to take you back to a time prior to when this began.
Start\All Programs\Accessories\System Tools\System Restore.

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Windows Shell/User
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"Jimmy" > wrote in message
...
> Pinball,Solitare and the rest of the games that come with
> Windows are still on my Start Menu but when I click on
> them, Windows does a search and says the links are
> missing. I have looked on my c drive and they are not
> there either I did not delete them but they disappeared.
> All I have is a restore disk from my manufacturer and I
> don't wish to restore xp just to get my games back.
> Nothing else is messed up or missing and I have not had
> any system crashes. What happened and is there anyway to
> load or restore the games and nothing else?

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi Jimmy,

Start/run 'sfc /scannow'

You may need to point this to the I386 folder on the hard drive.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Win98 Help - www.rickrogers.org

"Jimmy" > wrote in message
...
> Pinball,Solitare and the rest of the games that come with
> Windows are still on my Start Menu but when I click on
> them, Windows does a search and says the links are
> missing. I have looked on my c drive and they are not
> there either I did not delete them but they disappeared.
> All I have is a restore disk from my manufacturer and I
> don't wish to restore xp just to get my games back.
> Nothing else is messed up or missing and I have not had
> any system crashes. What happened and is there anyway to
> load or restore the games and nothing else?