Spider Solitaire (spider.exe)

Wendles · External Since: Feb 10, 2007 Posts: 2

Hi helpers,
I am relatively computer illiterate so don't talk in mumbo jumbo please. I
have Microsoft XP and I seem to have lost my spider solitaire game off my
computer. My hubby has the sh**ts badly because he loves to play. Any ideas
as to where it might have disappeared to. If I have accidently deleted it,
how can I get it back ??
--
If you have been able to help me - thank you very much !!!
Kind regards,
Wen

RobertVA · External Since: Jan 10, 2007 Posts: 120

Wendles wrote:
> Hi helpers,
> I am relatively computer illiterate so don't talk in mumbo jumbo please. I
> have Microsoft XP and I seem to have lost my spider solitaire game off my
> computer. My hubby has the sh**ts badly because he loves to play. Any ideas
> as to where it might have disappeared to. If I have accidently deleted it,
> how can I get it back ??

Use windows Explorer to look in the \windows\system32\ folder of your
boot drive. If there's a spider.exe file there, double click on it.

Please report back with what happens.

Paul Smith · External Since: Apr 23, 2005 Posts: 397

"Wendles" <wendles DeleteThis @discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:3E21D189-BE1B-49CA-AD14-86F8C4EADF0A@microsoft.com...
> Hi helpers,
> I am relatively computer illiterate so don't talk in mumbo jumbo please.
> I
> have Microsoft XP and I seem to have lost my spider solitaire game off my
> computer. My hubby has the sh**ts badly because he loves to play. Any
> ideas
> as to where it might have disappeared to. If I have accidently deleted
> it,
> how can I get it back ??

Go to Start
-> Control Panel
--> Add/Remove Programs
---> Add/Remove Windows Components
----> Double click Accessories and Utilities
-----> Double click Games and select what items you'd like to reinstall.
------> OK / Next your way out and setup will perform the operations, during
this point it may ask you for your Windows XP CD-ROM.

Video guide can be found at
http://www.windowsresource.net/xp/videos/reinstallgames.wmv

--
Paul Smith,
Yeovil, UK.
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User.
http://www.windowsresource.net/

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Musing in Mesquite · External Since: Apr 08, 2007 Posts: 2

It was all good until I got to the install your CD part; my CD drive is dead
- no audio, no video, no nothing. What am I going to tell my 73 year old
mother when whe finds out she can't play Solitaire tonight? Is there
somewhere to download Accessories-->Games on-line?

"Paul Smith" wrote:

> "Wendles" <wendles.DeleteThis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:3E21D189-BE1B-49CA-AD14-86F8C4EADF0A@microsoft.com...
> > Hi helpers,
> > I am relatively computer illiterate so don't talk in mumbo jumbo please.
> > I
> > have Microsoft XP and I seem to have lost my spider solitaire game off my
> > computer. My hubby has the sh**ts badly because he loves to play. Any
> > ideas
> > as to where it might have disappeared to. If I have accidently deleted
> > it,
> > how can I get it back ??
>
> Go to Start
> -> Control Panel
> --> Add/Remove Programs
> ---> Add/Remove Windows Components
> ----> Double click Accessories and Utilities
> -----> Double click Games and select what items you'd like to reinstall.
> ------> OK / Next your way out and setup will perform the operations, during
> this point it may ask you for your Windows XP CD-ROM.
>
> Video guide can be found at
> http://www.windowsresource.net/xp/videos/reinstallgames.wmv
>
> --
> Paul Smith,
> Yeovil, UK.
> Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User.
> http://www.windowsresource.net/
>
> *Remove nospam. to reply by e-mail*
>

Jimmy S. · External Since: Apr 04, 2005 Posts: 1821

Hi Musing in Mesquite,

Your Mom will probably enjoy playing some of the flash
and java based games available at many popular and free
gamesites until you can borrow a CD Drive from a friend. Smile

--
Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com

Visit my MSN Games and Windows Gaming Help Site: www.msce.mvps.org
MS Games Help and Support Center: http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
_________________________________________________________

Musing in Mesquite Wrote:
=================
| It was all good until I got to the install your CD part; my CD drive is dead
| - no audio, no video, no nothing. What am I going to tell my 73 year old
| mother when whe finds out she can't play Solitaire tonight? Is there
| somewhere to download Accessories-->Games on-line?
|
| "Paul Smith" wrote:
|
|| "Wendles" <wendles.DeleteThis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
|| news:3E21D189-BE1B-49CA-AD14-86F8C4EADF0A@microsoft.com...
||| Hi helpers,
||| I am relatively computer illiterate so don't talk in mumbo jumbo please.
||| I
||| have Microsoft XP and I seem to have lost my spider solitaire game off my
||| computer. My hubby has the sh**ts badly because he loves to play. Any
||| ideas
||| as to where it might have disappeared to. If I have accidently deleted
||| it,
||| how can I get it back ??
||
|| Go to Start
|| -> Control Panel
|| --> Add/Remove Programs
|| ---> Add/Remove Windows Components
|| ----> Double click Accessories and Utilities
|| -----> Double click Games and select what items you'd like to reinstall.
|| ------> OK / Next your way out and setup will perform the operations, during
|| this point it may ask you for your Windows XP CD-ROM.
||
|| Video guide can be found at
|| http://www.windowsresource.net/xp/videos/reinstallgames.wmv
||
|| --
|| Paul Smith,
|| Yeovil, UK.
|| Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User.
|| http://www.windowsresource.net/
||
|| *Remove nospam. to reply by e-mail*

Musing in Mesquite · External Since: Apr 08, 2007 Posts: 2

Thanks, great idea but she's 73 and didn't like it when the computer moved
the cards for her. I could try a deck of real cards, huh? Thanks again!

"Jimmy S." wrote:

> Hi Musing in Mesquite,
>
> Your Mom will probably enjoy playing some of the flash
> and java based games available at many popular and free
> gamesites until you can borrow a CD Drive from a friend. Smile

>
> --
> Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
> Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
>
> Visit my MSN Games and Windows Gaming Help Site: www.msce.mvps.org
> MS Games Help and Support Center: http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
> My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
> _________________________________________________________
>
> Musing in Mesquite Wrote:
> =================
> | It was all good until I got to the install your CD part; my CD drive is dead
> | - no audio, no video, no nothing. What am I going to tell my 73 year old
> | mother when whe finds out she can't play Solitaire tonight? Is there
> | somewhere to download Accessories-->Games on-line?
> |
> | "Paul Smith" wrote:
> |
> || "Wendles" <wendles.RemoveThis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> || news:3E21D189-BE1B-49CA-AD14-86F8C4EADF0A@microsoft.com...
> ||| Hi helpers,
> ||| I am relatively computer illiterate so don't talk in mumbo jumbo please.
> ||| I
> ||| have Microsoft XP and I seem to have lost my spider solitaire game off my
> ||| computer. My hubby has the sh**ts badly because he loves to play. Any
> ||| ideas
> ||| as to where it might have disappeared to. If I have accidently deleted
> ||| it,
> ||| how can I get it back ??
> ||
> || Go to Start
> || -> Control Panel
> || --> Add/Remove Programs
> || ---> Add/Remove Windows Components
> || ----> Double click Accessories and Utilities
> || -----> Double click Games and select what items you'd like to reinstall.
> || ------> OK / Next your way out and setup will perform the operations, during
> || this point it may ask you for your Windows XP CD-ROM.
> ||
> || Video guide can be found at
> || http://www.windowsresource.net/xp/videos/reinstallgames.wmv
> ||
> || --
> || Paul Smith,
> || Yeovil, UK.
> || Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User.
> || http://www.windowsresource.net/
> ||
> || *Remove nospam. to reply by e-mail*
>
>
>

Jan Seary · External Since: Jul 07, 2009 Posts: 1

Just wanted to thank Paul Smith for his guidance on re-installing the
Microsoft games. So many things are just impossible for us computer
illiterates it is amazing how some of the problems we encounter are
actually so simple to fix.

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