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Solitaire left me!
I lost my Solitaire game in Windows 98!
I only have Recovery disks from Acer so I can't reinstall it. I have tried to uninstall and reinstall it with Control Panel but to no avail. How can I get a copy of Solitaire to play with? Thanks |
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Often a restore disk will write the W98 .cab files to the hard drive. Do a
find on: win98_24.cab and if found, note its location. Then use sfc.exe to extract a copy of the file from that location. Run sfc.exe and select the "extract one file..." option. Type in the complete name of the missing file you want to restore or use the browse button for a file replacement. Click start and in the resulting window, browse to the location of the folder containing the W98 .cab files (either the hard drive or CDRom drive). If the information in the "save in" box is wrong, use the browse button to show where the file is to be restored to. Click OK and if appropriate, on the resulting screen, show the location where the file being replaced is to be backed up to. Click OK or skip as appropriate. Restart your computer and the file replacement will occur during the boot process. If you are going to use sfc.exe for other than the extract option, I highly recommend that you first read the article he http://home.satx.rr.com/badour/html/using_sfc.html -- Regards Ron Badour, MS MVP Windows 98 Tips: http://home.satx.rr.com/badour Knowledge Base Info: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo "rmpete" wrote in message ... I lost my Solitaire game in Windows 98! I only have Recovery disks from Acer so I can't reinstall it. I have tried to uninstall and reinstall it with Control Panel but to no avail. How can I get a copy of Solitaire to play with? Thanks |
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Ron Badour, thank you so much!
Solitaire is now up and running. Your expertise is much appreciated. rmpete "Ron Badour" wrote: Often a restore disk will write the W98 .cab files to the hard drive. Do a find on: win98_24.cab and if found, note its location. Then use sfc.exe to extract a copy of the file from that location. Run sfc.exe and select the "extract one file..." option. Type in the complete name of the missing file you want to restore or use the browse button for a file replacement. Click start and in the resulting window, browse to the location of the folder containing the W98 .cab files (either the hard drive or CDRom drive). If the information in the "save in" box is wrong, use the browse button to show where the file is to be restored to. Click OK and if appropriate, on the resulting screen, show the location where the file being replaced is to be backed up to. Click OK or skip as appropriate. Restart your computer and the file replacement will occur during the boot process. If you are going to use sfc.exe for other than the extract option, I highly recommend that you first read the article he http://home.satx.rr.com/badour/html/using_sfc.html -- Regards Ron Badour, MS MVP Windows 98 Tips: http://home.satx.rr.com/badour Knowledge Base Info: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo "rmpete" wrote in message ... I lost my Solitaire game in Windows 98! I only have Recovery disks from Acer so I can't reinstall it. I have tried to uninstall and reinstall it with Control Panel but to no avail. How can I get a copy of Solitaire to play with? Thanks |
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