First of all, I'm running Windows XP Professional with all of the latest updates. And my harddrive is partitioned like:
C Drive (10 gigs)- Only filled with the operating system and critical softwares
D Drive (70 gigs)- Filled with most of my programs and all other misc items.
My computer has been perfectly fine for the past few months until today. I was uninstalling a few pieces of software which asked if I wanted to keep a few certain files that may be shared with other programs (you've all encountered it before). I clicked to delete them all, since nothing ever happened before.
However, afterwards all of my programs which were installed on drive D no longer work or appear in windows explorer. All of the links in the quick launch/start menu are "broken," and I can't seem to find them anywhere (and no, they aren't hidden). The programs aren't uninstalled... they just can't be recognized by windows.
I already ran adware and antivirus programs, so spyware and/or viri aren't the problems. And I'd also definetely prefer to avoid reformating, as I just don't have that kind of time right now...
My question is, is it possible that while uninstalling those few pieces of software, the system deleted a few critical ".dll" or whatever files that is causing my programs on drive D to be unrecognizeable.
Thanks in advance!
C Drive (10 gigs)- Only filled with the operating system and critical softwares
D Drive (70 gigs)- Filled with most of my programs and all other misc items.
My computer has been perfectly fine for the past few months until today. I was uninstalling a few pieces of software which asked if I wanted to keep a few certain files that may be shared with other programs (you've all encountered it before). I clicked to delete them all, since nothing ever happened before.
However, afterwards all of my programs which were installed on drive D no longer work or appear in windows explorer. All of the links in the quick launch/start menu are "broken," and I can't seem to find them anywhere (and no, they aren't hidden). The programs aren't uninstalled... they just can't be recognized by windows.
I already ran adware and antivirus programs, so spyware and/or viri aren't the problems. And I'd also definetely prefer to avoid reformating, as I just don't have that kind of time right now...
My question is, is it possible that while uninstalling those few pieces of software, the system deleted a few critical ".dll" or whatever files that is causing my programs on drive D to be unrecognizeable.
Thanks in advance!
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