How do you undo removing programs?

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Hi...I am not very computer savy and thing I made a huge mistake! I was
trying to clean up unwanted programs and removed 2 programs that I thought
were ok. PowerDVD and Walmart's Photo Service Software. I still had Windows
Media Player and other photo software. Since doing this, my digital camera
download will not work correctly (will go to transfer photos and movies and
than reaches about 90% and says it cannot complete the transfer). Also, I
now cannot play movies on my computer when I used to be able to. I thought
the PowerDVD was just an extra DVD player, and since I had Windows Media, I
though it was ok. From what I understand though, I downloaded software from
Microsoft's website and it detected I no longer have a decoder.
I am also getting alot of error messages at random times, like when I close
my Internet Explorer.
So, I am thinking that I shouldn't have removed those programs!!! How do I
get them back? and is this the problem?
Thanks so much!
Jennefer
 
Jennefer said:
Hi...I am not very computer savy and thing I made a huge mistake! I was
trying to clean up unwanted programs and removed 2 programs that I thought
were ok. PowerDVD and Walmart's Photo Service Software. I still had Windows
Media Player and other photo software. Since doing this, my digital camera
download will not work correctly (will go to transfer photos and movies and
than reaches about 90% and says it cannot complete the transfer). Also, I
now cannot play movies on my computer when I used to be able to. I thought
the PowerDVD was just an extra DVD player, and since I had Windows Media, I
though it was ok. From what I understand though, I downloaded software from
Microsoft's website and it detected I no longer have a decoder.
I am also getting alot of error messages at random times, like when I close
my Internet Explorer.
So, I am thinking that I shouldn't have removed those programs!!! How do I
get them back? and is this the problem?
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Simply reinstall the two needed applications using the same
installation CDs with which you originally installed them. If the
programs were installed by someone else, ask that individual where
he/she stored the installation CDs. If the programs were pre-installed
when you purchased the computer, the CDs should be stored wherever you
stored all of the other CDs and documentation that came with the computer.


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You reinstall the programs from the media CD's.

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Jennefer said:
Hi...I am not very computer savy and thing I made a huge mistake! I was
trying to clean up unwanted programs and removed 2 programs that I thought
were ok. PowerDVD and Walmart's Photo Service Software. I still had
Windows
Media Player and other photo software. Since doing this, my digital
camera
download will not work correctly (will go to transfer photos and movies
and
than reaches about 90% and says it cannot complete the transfer). Also, I
now cannot play movies on my computer when I used to be able to. I
thought
the PowerDVD was just an extra DVD player, and since I had Windows Media,
I
though it was ok. From what I understand though, I downloaded software
from
Microsoft's website and it detected I no longer have a decoder.
I am also getting alot of error messages at random times, like when I
close
my Internet Explorer.
So, I am thinking that I shouldn't have removed those programs!!! How do
I
get them back? and is this the problem?
Thanks so much!
Jennefer
Click to expand...

Media Player requires a software decoder to play DVDs such as PowerDVD. So
you need to reinstall PowerDVD (if it came with your DVD drive, you should
have a CD for it).


You could try a system restore.....to get thos progs back. Choose a restore
point at a time before you did your disk clean up.

The program(s) shouldn't really have been "deleted" as such, rather they
should be uninstalled through Add/Remove Programs in Control Panel, or via
their own setup/install/uninstall programs.

The programs can be reinstalled from the original media (CD's) they were
purchased on.
 
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