Hi

What preinstalled Dell games are you talking about can you tell us the names ?

I have a Dimension E 521 with Vista Home Premium and it did not come with any games from Dell 

Other than the games that are in the Vista OS are these the games you are asking about ?

There is an icon for games,music& photos if you got them from that icon we may not know what they are so how can we help you ?

Can you give us this info ?

 

Many new Dell's come with some trial or limited time use games.  That's the only ones I know about and once you reinstall they are gone and no way to recover them.  The built in Vista games, as noted, should still be available.

OK,

In start, all programs, dell games there are: these do not work

play games

bejeweled 2 deluxe

blackhawk striker 2

blasterball 2

chuzzle deluxe

fate

jeopardy

penguins

polar bowler

polar golfer

scrabble

 

in start, all programs, games there are: these all work

chess titans

freecell

games explorer

hearts

inkball

mahjong titus

minesweeper

bubble place

solitaire

spider solitaire

 

in start, games there are:

a mixture of all above.

the ones that won't play in dell games, won't play here either. can i get these back??

Hi

The only thing i can think of is when you installed Vista using the DVD you wiped the games out

but the link to them is still there .

Did you get the disk to reinstall them with your computer?

If they came installed from Dell in the D:\Recovery and you did not use F8 to restore it back to the way it came from Dell you may never get them back .

Do you still have the D:\Recovery drive?

Have you tried to used F8 to restore it back ?

http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/dsn/en/document?journalid=ED2AE5EE49FC11DC98AD0D55439BE9C6&docid=316056

If

that does not work you may get it working by using this link.

http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/dsn/en/document?c=us&l=en&s=gen&docid=298A2E89689E13C2E040A68F5B280AA4&cs

Good Luck

thanks, i will try. will let you know

i have no disc with the games on it that i know of.

i reinstalled over the phone with dell, don't remember using the F8.

i still have the D:\recovery drive

what do i do to use the F8 to restore them?

 

don't think i want to do another restore or reinstall just for the games.

i sure wanted to check out jeopardy though!!!!!!!!!!