Are you positively sure you uninstalled the game and nothing else or
accidentally something else when you hit uninstalled? Joseph Rydzy

----- Original Message -----
From: "Camerons" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, October 06, 2000 12:26 AM
Subject: [PCSOFT] Uninstalled a Program and Now lots of other stuff is
missing in action!


> Help!
>
> I went to a new online game site and downloaded to my desktop the
necessary
> program to play their game.  After I was done, I went into Windows
> Add/Remove Programs and uninstalled.  All of a sudden I was staring at a
> BLANK desktop....no icons at all.  All I had was the bar at the bottom of
> the screen with the START button, etc.
>
> I rebooted, and got back My Computer, and a couple other basic icons.
> However, some of my shortcuts are gone, but more importantly, all but one
of
> the folders I had on my desktop are gone, along with their contents.  One
> folder remains....it was the one with the most in it....but it just has
> another folder in it called "all users"...which didn't start out there,
and
> I don't have a clue what it is.  I had not done my daily backup, and lost
a
> LOT of important stuff that I had stored in that those folders.  Don't
> understand what happened.  Why did I lost all but one folder, and most but
> not all shortcuts, etc?
>
> I went into Windows Explorer and looked around, but can't find any of my
> missing folders or their contents.
>
> Also did a "Find" using some of the file titles that I remembered, but no
> luck.  Actually, "find" doesn't even seem to look....I click on it and it
> instantly says no files found.  I typed in *.exe in the files or folders
> window, and it still says no files found, doesn't even seem to search.
>
> Please, give me some hope!  Is there anything I can do?
>
> Thanks very much.
>
> Mary Cameron
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