After installing updates yesterday, and downloading and installing Windows
Live Essentials, I disovered that all of my shortcuts to Internet explorer
were gone from my Start menu and quick launch menu bar. In it's place, in
the Start Menu, it simply had the (globe) icon and said "Internet". When I
clicked on that icon, it opened up the Internet Options screen. I Looked for
the program files where I expected them to be (c:/Program files/Internet
Explorer), but they were not there. However, since I had put my "links" on
my task bar, I found that if I clicked on a link in the list, it would open
up Internet Explorer. I could also get to it by going to START/RUN and
typing in iexplore.exe.

I finally found the file C:/Windows/ie8/explore.exe and created new
shortcuts, but I am concerned about what happened. Also, I attempted to go
to a restore point before the updates and the new download and got a message
that the system could not be restored to that point.

I also discovered that my entire "Games" folder is gone and I haven't
figured that one out yet either. Has anyone else experienced these problems?

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Magsmom wrote:
> After installing updates yesterday, and downloading and installing Windows
> Live Essentials, I disovered that all of my shortcuts to Internet explorer
> were gone from my Start menu and quick launch menu bar. In it's place, in
> the Start Menu, it simply had the (globe) icon and said "Internet". When
> I
> clicked on that icon, it opened up the Internet Options screen. I Looked
> for the program files where I expected them to be (c:/Program
> files/Internet
> Explorer), but they were not there. However, since I had put my "links"
> on
> my task bar, I found that if I clicked on a link in the list, it would
> open
> up Internet Explorer. I could also get to it by going to START/RUN and
> typing in iexplore.exe.
>
> I finally found the file C:/Windows/ie8/explore.exe and created new
> shortcuts, but I am concerned about what happened. Also, I attempted to
> go
> to a restore point before the updates and the new download and got a
> message
> that the system could not be restored to that point.
>
> I also discovered that my entire "Games" folder is gone and I haven't
> figured that one out yet either. Has anyone else experienced these
> problems?

Try running SR in Safe Mode.

"Magsmom" <Magsmom@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:CCEF81A7-390D-49DC-B96C-F9251B48CC6E@microsoft.com...
> After installing updates yesterday, and downloading and installing Windows
> Live Essentials, I disovered that all of my shortcuts to Internet explorer
> were gone from my Start menu and quick launch menu bar. In it's place, in
> the Start Menu, it simply had the (globe) icon and said "Internet". When
> I
> clicked on that icon, it opened up the Internet Options screen. I Looked
> for
> the program files where I expected them to be (c:/Program files/Internet
> Explorer), but they were not there. However, since I had put my "links"
> on
> my task bar, I found that if I clicked on a link in the list, it would
> open
> up Internet Explorer. I could also get to it by going to START/RUN and
> typing in iexplore.exe.
>
> I finally found the file C:/Windows/ie8/explore.exe and created new
> shortcuts, but I am concerned about what happened. Also, I attempted to
> go
> to a restore point before the updates and the new download and got a
> message
> that the system could not be restored to that point.
>
> I also discovered that my entire "Games" folder is gone and I haven't
> figured that one out yet either. Has anyone else experienced these
> problems?