i am a great fan of windows solitiare but now have a problem.the game was always listed in the start MENU and it along with the other always installed games were listed in the game listing in the all other program section of the start menu.today my son was trying to get some extra free space on my hard drive by deleting unneeded windows programs through add and delete section and went to add or REMOVE windows programs and unchecked everything except for the fax box and then pressed ok.upon seeing that something was happening he canceled this action but now all i have listed in both spots is real arcade and it is not what i want. i am operating a acer laptop with windows xp.if i go to RUN and type in sol i get the game but can not find a way to get back to where i was. i do not claim to be the worlds greatest expert on computers so i am looking for a fairly simple way to repair this issue before it drives me nuts.any help at all would be more then great....thanks for your time and help. TRY going to "Run" and type C:\WINDOWS\system32
SOLITAIRE should be listed in that folder as "sol".
Right-click "sol", go to "Send To" and click "Desktop (create shortcut)"
Now you should have a shortcut to solitaire on your desktop.

Other games that might be in that folder are, "freecell", "mshearts", "spider" (Spider Solitaire), and "winmine" (MineSweeper).