Mary,

Did you *install* the game software right on your desktop? If so, it sounds like you uninstalled
your desktop along with the game - which doesn't sound possible. But if you have, there are all
sorts of things that will no longer work correctly, if they work at all. Look in
c:\windows\profiles, and see how many users you have listed. You may have inadvertantly removed the
only user listed - yourself. If that is the case, I'm afraid you're probably looking at reinstalling
your operating system, and even that may not fix this problem because the registry is likely quite a
mess. You may have lost some data which is un-recoverable, and may end up formatting your drive just
to get everything working again. *If* you have a backup of your entire drive, you should be able to
restore your data, but again, even that will only serve to get your data back - things still
probably won't work right. You have a strangely unique problem that's going to require some hard
work to fix. Hope this doesn't sound too drastic, but I've never encountered such a problem. Best of
luck.

Alan Thompson
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From: Camerons <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 9:26 PM
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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