View Single Post

mpic92 · 07-23-2006, 07:57 PM

I recently removed Compuserve which is an AOL type program from my computer. I used Compuserve for many years but then upgraded to DSL and no longer had a need for it. When I uninstalled the program off my computer, all of the things I had downloaded all went away with it since the downloads folder was part of Compuserve (downloads folder inside Compusevrew folder in Prgram Files).

I accessed my downloads from a shortcut folder on my desktop and when I went to remove Compuserve, the fact of my downloads also going never crossed my mind.

So now they are all gone and I'm wondering how I can possibly get them back. I had maany system restore points but I ran into an issue when doing that. I restored my computer to an earlier time and Compuserve came back as well as my downloads folder. However, there were no files in the downloads folder. All of the folders that used to be there came back but the things inside (mostly microsoft word/excel file) were gone. I find it bizarre that the folders all came back but theres no sign of the files.

Some of these download files are very important and I'm wondering what I possibly can do to try to get them back onto my computer.

07-23-2006, 07:57 PM	#1 (permalink)
mpic92 Silver Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: MA Posts: 184	Downloads gone, need help. I recently removed Compuserve which is an AOL type program from my computer. I used Compuserve for many years but then upgraded to DSL and no longer had a need for it. When I uninstalled the program off my computer, all of the things I had downloaded all went away with it since the downloads folder was part of Compuserve (downloads folder inside Compusevrew folder in Prgram Files). I accessed my downloads from a shortcut folder on my desktop and when I went to remove Compuserve, the fact of my downloads also going never crossed my mind. So now they are all gone and I'm wondering how I can possibly get them back. I had maany system restore points but I ran into an issue when doing that. I restored my computer to an earlier time and Compuserve came back as well as my downloads folder. However, there were no files in the downloads folder. All of the folders that used to be there came back but the things inside (mostly microsoft word/excel file) were gone. I find it bizarre that the folders all came back but theres no sign of the files. Some of these download files are very important and I'm wondering what I possibly can do to try to get them back onto my computer. __________________ New HP dv9000t Laptop: Genuine Windows XP Professional Intel(R) Core(TM) 2 Duo processor T7200 (2.0 GHz) 17.0" WSXGA+ BrightView Widescreen (1680x1050) 512MB NVIDIA(R) GeForce(R) Go 7600 2.0GB DDR2 SDRAM (2x1024MB)