Its happen this evening.. I uninstalled an online game ( DOMO ).. then suddenly during the process, my PC delete my other software! My antivirus, my IE, my real player, my other games, my Nvidia,my Yahoo Messenger and many more! When I click the icon at dekstop, it say, windows cannot located... I try to reinstalled, but still the window say cannot located.. something error... so, now, I'm afraid to uninstalled other program (I don't want to lose other stuff! ).Anyone please tell me what to do... DX

Are you on that PC now?

Yes

So how are you posting if it deleted your IE and it cannot find your Windows installation?

Ahh.. my bad.. forgot to mention.. I ask my friend to give me the IE installer and install it.but the others such antivirus(avira free), ym cant.its say something like error.. the window cannot find... like that.. can someone tell me why this happen?

It's possible you have a corrupt profile. If that is the case then you would have booted up into what would look like a brand new Windows installation. The good news is that your programs and files are still there (use Windows Explorer to look into Program Files folder). I recently did a tech support job that had to do with fixing a corrupt profile and it's not for the novice. I would recommend seeking out a trusted (well referenced) tech support person in your area.

What operating system you're running, and its version.

What is the exact text of the error message if possible, this may convey a lot of information

2 options, system restore back to point when there was no issue or a repair installation - I would attempt the system restore first

System Restore
-Go down till you see
How to use System Restore to restore Windows XP to a previous state
How to restore Windows XP to a previous state (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306084)

Repair Installation
A Repair Install will replace the system files with the files on the XP CD used for the Repair Install. It will leave your applications and settings intact, but Windows updates will need to be reapplied.

Perform a Repair Installation (http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/helpandsupport/learnmore/tips/doug92.mspx)



You can try a repair installation to fix windows itself and then go through process of seeing what software you can get installed

XP Pro, 2002. Sorry,I'm so so noob about software and comp thing.so will take long time to understand.so, this is not because a virus eh? D exact text,for e.g... if I want to open the real player... ' window is searching for realplay.exe .To locate the file yourself click Browse' and then I didn't do anything... it say ' problem with shortcut.the item 'realplay.exe' that this shortcut refers to has been changed or moved,so this shortcut will no longer work properly'...

Is it will be OK if I uninstall other software such as my avg antivirus now?the PC is still the same( I not restore or reinstalled yet)

A system restore will be your best bet as a system restore will bring all those shortcuts back to the way they were before problems started happening

\Basically, the PC will be in the same working state as it was before issues started - anything you did after problems started will have to be reinstalled

OK.. thanks a lot guys.im going to restore my PC.I will inform soon if it solved my problem.thanks again! XD

Hope that helps out, it should get you back going

Here.. I already restore my PC.but it doesn't help much.. I still need to reinstalled IE back.when I double click the icon, nothing happen.is it because I never do backup thing? Also what I forgot to mention before.. everytime I start my PC, it say Internal Error.an internal error occured in the initialization stage.the application could not be loaded.please contact application vendor.Error no.502...

At this point you would need to do a repair installation

If you do not have an xp disc, see if ;you borrow one from someone but must be same version as you have installed or it will not let you do the repair - but if you have one on hand, use that one

Repair Installation
A Repair Install will replace the system files with the files on the XP CD used for the Repair Install. It will leave your applications and settings intact, but Windows updates will need to be reapplied.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/helpandsupport/learnmore/tips/doug92.mspx

here..i already restore my pc.but it doesnt help much..i still need to reinstalled IE back.when i double click the icon, nothing happen.is it because i never do backup thing? also what i forgot to mention before..everytime i start my pc, it say Internal Error.an internal error occured in the initialization stage.the application could not be loaded.please contact application vendor.Error no.502...

Hang on a minute, you've been accessing this site with IE!!

I had a problem like this kind of not to long ago, I went to the dentist one day left my computer on like normal everything was fine, I got home and it was shut off, when I went to cut it on it would only come on in safe mode and I was like that's weird when I finally got it to come up there wasn othing on my computer, it was like vista and everything was deleted there was one folder in the middle of my screen anyway I finally got my computer to restore to the day before and that finally fixed my problem, I'm not sure if it will help you but you can give it a try, just go into system restore and restore it to a previous date

OK.. I will do the repair installation.hope everything going to be okay after this.
And curlyben, I reinstalled my IE.
And babyboy, I already restored my PC but it didn't help

Lilium, please some consistency would help us in assisting you.

I can clearly see that yoy are up and running on Win XP with IE8.
Now admittedly running BETA software such as IE8 may well be causing you some problems, so a more stable browser, such as Firefox might be in order.