Missing Files - I mistakenly deleted

#1 LucyGoose

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Posted 08 February 2012 - 01:00 PM

Hello, on XP professional system. Not sure what\how I did but I have inadvertently deleted the VOLUME control, and in Accessories -the games . I have tried the suggestions , and the solution appears to insert the XP disk, which has been lost. Is there any other way to retrieve these files. They are on my laptop. Don't miss the games but the volume control I do . tks

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Posted 08 February 2012 - 01:28 PM

Have u tried re installing your sound drivers?

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Posted 08 February 2012 - 04:36 PM

Not sure how I do that. Do I go into Hardware.... ?

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Posted 08 February 2012 - 05:38 PM

Looking at the attachment which shows the control panel (Start, The control panel)
See how the :Sounds and Audio devices" has been selected. Then Place "Volume Icon in the Taskbar" is selected.

It is also showing "Realtek AC97 Audio" in this case as that is the sound card in this computer. IS it showing a audio sound card?

Sometimes you may have to deselect and reselect to get it to appear. If that doesn't do it then we move to the next stage.

Vol_Ctrl.JPG (41.22K)
Number of downloads: 3

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My first Computer had a Whopping 16K of memory @ 0.89MHz
My first hard drive held 20 Megabytes and never got filled up.

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Posted 08 February 2012 - 05:40 PM

If you cant get it to work i would try and download the soundvol 32 here

http://www.4shared.com/file/39575054/e5c44d88/sndvol32.html?

It is a trusted site for me as i have downloaded this numerous times so it is clean. Once you download it go into your downloads and copy the file. Open My computer> Windows > System32 and paste to file into that folder. You can now make another copy on your desktop to access your Volume Controll.

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Posted 08 February 2012 - 07:46 PM

To Rotor123 Thankyou.
I tried as you instructed. Message : Windows cannot display volume control on taskbar, because it is not been installed. To install go to add/remove programs. In there I am instructed to insert XP disc

I don't have. So what's plan B.

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Posted 08 February 2012 - 07:48 PM

To Crashoveride420. Thanks, I will give this go now.

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Posted 08 February 2012 - 08:19 PM

Hey Crashoveride420 you are the best, thank you thank you thank you, I think I have it ok. (except LOL its in spanish) but I was able to put it as an icon in taskbar. Ok so is there also download to retrieve the 'Accessories ' games I oops deleted it too ?

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Posted 08 February 2012 - 08:30 PM

lol...you are dangerous with the delete button aint you :-) So you removed Accessories? In windows xp Games are below Accessories. I will check on a solution and get back to you in a second.

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Posted 08 February 2012 - 09:05 PM

Sorry the only link i had appears to be out of order. I will keep looking tho, there has to be something out there.

Another logical choice to try would be to copy the whole Accessories folder from another computer or computer account and paste it to the computer that is missing of the Accessories folder. in this case it would be
C:\documents and setting\john\start menu\programs and copy the accessories folder. then paste that into your account (same as above only with your account) sorry if this is confusing, this is tough to explain

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Posted 09 February 2012 - 10:12 AM

If you don't have the CD do you have a "C:\I386" folder on the c: drive?

My first Computer had a Whopping 16K of memory @ 0.89MHz
My first hard drive held 20 Megabytes and never got filled up.

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Posted 09 February 2012 - 01:03 PM

Thanks again for getting back to me.

I have some health issues that give me grief ,today is not going well, so it will be a bit before I get to it.

I will try solution one first. From my laptop to an external hard drive then to my PC . Hmmmm.
and I will look for the C:|1386 folder.

In the mean time I will tape over the delete button LOL

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Posted 09 February 2012 - 04:32 PM

note that it is C:i386 not C:1386

My first Computer had a Whopping 16K of memory @ 0.89MHz
My first hard drive held 20 Megabytes and never got filled up.

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Posted 10 February 2012 - 02:25 PM

Yep I did a search for C:i386, but there was 13 of em. Trying to copy and paste it here. won't let me

I will keep at it. two of them look promising ....C:\windows\servicepackfiles or \servicepackfile\servicepackcache

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Posted 10 February 2012 - 04:34 PM

there should only be one since it is a Folder called i386 on the C:\ typical size is around 500 Megabytes.

If you had that folder you can extract any Windows file from there.

If you find that folder or a Windows disc then press the Windows Key = the "R" key to get to the run command and type SFC/Scannow

That will search for corrupt, changed or missing windows files.

My first Computer had a Whopping 16K of memory @ 0.89MHz
My first hard drive held 20 Megabytes and never got filled up.