System Restore

First, I have no knowledge of Win 8 and the people I work with are the same. We have a laser engraver that came with an Acer Pc that has Win 8. We are using Corel Draw with the engraver and for some reason the App was removed or missing. Lots of info was stored there and I am thinking there must be some way to do a systems restore to recover this App. Any ideas or help would be appreciated.

 

Hi Rich. Try this for a system restore in Windows 8
http://www.vikitech.com/11302/system-restore-windows-8

 

Along with the link supplied by DSTM look in your programs or programs x86 folder to see if the program files are still there. If not System Restore won't help as it does not replace removed files. If the files are there you may be able to just re-create a shortcut to the executable.

Have you looked at the Metro desktop to see if there is a tile for the thing?

 

First I am home and not at work, so I am not in front of that machine. When we first got the laser and the new Pc none of us new anything about Win 8 and had a hell of a time trying to figure it out. I installed a third party start menu, which helped us. Someone was using the machine and a problem occured. They restarted and rather than taking them to the start up menu, it took them to the tiles. I found the start menu tile, but the Corel Draw file was not there.

 

Hi Rich. When searching for anything whatsoever on your computer, there is a small program which will find every trace of any program on your computer instantly.
It is called "Everything"
It will find traces on multiple hard drives as well.
When it finds an entry you highlight it and choose "Follow Path" and it leads you straight to it.
I have had this program for ages and it's brilliant.Works with Windows 8 both 32 and 64 bit as well.
http://www.voidtools.com/

It runs rings around Windows search. Run as Administrator.

 

Thanks so much for your help and advice, Jay and Dougie. I did a system restore and that did the trick, like it almost always does. They are up and running and no lost data. PS: thanks Dougie for that everything, I just downloaded it for me.

Cheers: