Since you never did a normal shutdown or restart of your computer before the
weekend which have insured the saving of all new options etc. Is it possible
that the computer had a power failure causing the computer to turn off and
that it rebooted as a result of some other action?
"Jeffrey" <Jeffrey@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I downloaded iTunes, Windows messenger, Picasa etc and then all of a sudden
> they were gone from my computer. Over the weekend the computer I believe
> re-started and then all the programs were gone!
>
> I even searched the hard drive and the program files acted like they were
> NEVER there. I have never heard of Windows totally erasing a program, can
> anyone help?!?!?