Re: Help! my games disappeared?!

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. :-)

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

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KayMil01 Wrote:
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| 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
||
||
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|| 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:
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||| 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.
||||
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|||| 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.
|||| _________________________________________________________
||||
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|||| KayMil01 Wrote:
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||||| 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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