Re: Help! my games disappeared?!

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]


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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, 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. :-)
||
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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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||| 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.
|||| _________________________________________________________
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|||| 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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