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David Lawson

A while back my wife and I installed XP over ME. It appeared that alot of
thing were lost. While doing a Virus Scan I was actually watching the name
of the files and found that things like The Sims and other programs are
still there, however, I am not smart enough to get them to work. I can only
find these files if I do a SEARCH. Help, my wife has been cranky about her
Sims.

David
 
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A while back my wife and I installed XP over ME. It appeared that alot of
thing were lost. While doing a Virus Scan I was actually watching the name
of the files and found that things like The Sims and other programs are
still there, however, I am not smart enough to get them to work. I can only
find these files if I do a SEARCH. Help, my wife has been cranky about her
Sims.

David
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You will need to reinstall your game and any other
programs. Even if the files are still present in
C:\program files, you will be missing registry entries for
thsoe programs without which they won't work or work
correctly. (The registry is a huge database of settigs).
 
Hi David

Upgrading to XP won't remove any programs. I expect you may have just lost some shortcuts in this case. Find out the location of the Sims by doing a search again, and then run the game by double clicking Sims.exe. This is an informed guess! It may have a slightly different name, but it will be an exe and have the Sims logo as it's icon.
Your previous programs like the Sims should all work fine, if you find a program that doesn't work you can reinstall it over it's original locaction.

Once you have got the Sims working you can bring a smile to your wife by right clicking the Sims.exe file, selecting create a shortcut, and then dragging this shortcut to your desktop.

All the best.
Dan
 
You shouldn't need to reinstall your applications as the XP upgrade doesn't replace the entire registry.
 
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You shouldn't need to reinstall your applications as the
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XP upgrade doesn't replace the entire registry.If a proper upgrade install had been peformed, then the
Start Menu shortcuts would have been retained too - which
is why I suspect that the registry has been written anew.
 
Yes you may be right bout that.

BMC said:
XP upgrade doesn't replace the entire registry.
If a proper upgrade install had been peformed, then the
Start Menu shortcuts would have been retained too - which
is why I suspect that the registry has been written anew.
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after installing xp2x i then went in for upgrade to repair the problem of
right clicking any one of the program files to get short cuts to desk top.
instead the programs just flicker and nothing comes up.
 
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