How to reinstall Games

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When adding and removing features under Vista 64 edition I noticed that they
are not deleted from the hard drive upon deselection. All my Games have
stopped working and I need to extract and actually reinstall these from the
Vista installation CD. Is there an easy way of doing this? What's happened is
that the executables for Chess, Freecell etc have become corrupt and will not
run. I tried the easy way by removing them under the windows features,
rebooting then re-enabling them. I know that replacing the executables will
work as this has rectified the issue with other software that had similar
problems. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks...
 
Wellsyboyred said:
When adding and removing features under Vista 64 edition I noticed that
they
are not deleted from the hard drive upon deselection. All my Games have
stopped working and I need to extract and actually reinstall these from
the
Vista installation CD. Is there an easy way of doing this? What's happened
is
that the executables for Chess, Freecell etc have become corrupt and will
not
run. I tried the easy way by removing them under the windows features,
rebooting then re-enabling them. I know that replacing the executables
will
work as this has rectified the issue with other software that had similar
problems. Any help would be appreciated.
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Have you made any modifications to the system for example by removing
shortcut arrows from icons? That can break the Games Explorer.

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No. This problem occurred having run 'defender' which found problems and
appears to have truncated the executables causing them not to run. Subsequent
reinstallations of other programs which were affected cured the problems
which I can't do with the 'inbuilt' software in Vista short of reinstalling
Vista which I am loathe to do.
 
Hi,

From an administrative command prompt (right-click cmd and run as
administrator), type "sfc /scannow" - without the quote marks - hit enter.
The process may take a while but should attempt to repair any corrupt files.
 
Hi, Thanks for your suggestion. I tried this and after the scan it reported
back that there were a number of files which it could not repair. I checked
the details of which in the generated cbs log which were all the games
executables. Is there a way in which I can easily replace these executables
from the Vista installation CD? Many thanks.
John
 
No, I haven't made any modifications at all.. I ran 'defender' which I think
was the culprit and it knocked out several programs, all of which now work
having re-installed them. Where I'm stuck is with these windows
'components'....
 
Seems to me that it might be time to do something devious like go find the
executables and temporarily move them to another directory, so they're "gone"
from where they're supposed to be. If you think that the re-istall doesn't
succeed because these files exist, then maybe this will make the re-istall
succeed.
If this works, you can delete the files from where you "hid" them (moved
them). If not , and the system twists your arm (complains), you still have
them and can put them back.
--
-me.
Let this forum know if this helps or if you figure out the problem, so
others can benefit. As far as I know the "notify me of replies"
does not work, so do not count on this feature.
 
Hi, thanks for your suggestion. I did actually try this and the execs were
replaced by the 'system' with rogue copies, just the same. The problem is
that I need to extract said execs from the DVD somehow, replace the ones that
exist on the hard drive and then set a new system restore point so that the
backups are overwritten. Whatever went corrupt in the first place affected
the backup image as well :_(
 
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