mgc7399
Hi all, our new pc came with windows xp media center, and there used to be this really cool screensaver called 3D maze which looked like someone running through a maze at high speed. Two days later, the screensaver was gone. I ran Disk Investigator software to scan the registry, and this came up:
x+› Screen Saver.3DMaze °ÿÿÿU S R : C o n t r o l P a n e l \ S c r e e n S a v e r . 3 D M a z e Ðÿÿÿvk N
but I could not figure out what to do from here...it said to save the clusters in the correct order and write it out to a disk. I tried some other software called PC Investigator file recovery, but I couldn't find the maze screensaver there either with the other recovered lost files (there were something like 25,000 on the C drive). It's probably just that I'm an idiot.
I am a computer retard, so I don't know what to do here but I do want to recover this screensaver or get another one similar to it. I'm afraid that anything else I do to this pc will ruin it. Any suggestions?
x+› Screen Saver.3DMaze °ÿÿÿU S R : C o n t r o l P a n e l \ S c r e e n S a v e r . 3 D M a z e Ðÿÿÿvk N
but I could not figure out what to do from here...it said to save the clusters in the correct order and write it out to a disk. I tried some other software called PC Investigator file recovery, but I couldn't find the maze screensaver there either with the other recovered lost files (there were something like 25,000 on the C drive). It's probably just that I'm an idiot.
I am a computer retard, so I don't know what to do here but I do want to recover this screensaver or get another one similar to it. I'm afraid that anything else I do to this pc will ruin it. Any suggestions?
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Cormac
Best bet is to do a system restore.
Go to start, all programs, then to accessories, then to system tools and choose system restore.
Then just pick a day before it disappeared and then let it do it's thing and you should have it back.
Good Luck
Go to start, all programs, then to accessories, then to system tools and choose system restore.
Then just pick a day before it disappeared and then let it do it's thing and you should have it back.
Good Luck
Wilhelmus
See if you have this file:
C:\CMPNENTS\MEDIACTR\1386\PLUS.CAB
If not, put your media center cd to cd drive and see if the plus.cab file is in there (same path, just change C with your CDROM/DVD drive letter).
If you found this file, open it with winzip and look for files,which extension is .SCR. Extract all those, for example create folder named screen to your desktop and extract those files to there. Filename is probably 3dmaze.scr or something like that.
If you found it just move it to C:\Windows\System32 folder.
C:\CMPNENTS\MEDIACTR\1386\PLUS.CAB
If not, put your media center cd to cd drive and see if the plus.cab file is in there (same path, just change C with your CDROM/DVD drive letter).
If you found this file, open it with winzip and look for files,which extension is .SCR. Extract all those, for example create folder named screen to your desktop and extract those files to there. Filename is probably 3dmaze.scr or something like that.
If you found it just move it to C:\Windows\System32 folder.
mgc7399
OP
Okay:
I tried system restore once before, when this first happened: it made no difference. I recently tried again with the same result. As for 1386\PLUS.CAB, I do have that cabinet file, but there is no 3Dmaze.scr or anything like that in there. There is no corresponding file in system32 either. I know the information is still on the hard drive somewhere; maybe it has been written over? I don't have a Media Center CD to try and reinstall it with, but I did try to reinstall the driver for Media Center with no success in recovering the missing screensaver.
Any more suggestions?
I tried system restore once before, when this first happened: it made no difference. I recently tried again with the same result. As for 1386\PLUS.CAB, I do have that cabinet file, but there is no 3Dmaze.scr or anything like that in there. There is no corresponding file in system32 either. I know the information is still on the hard drive somewhere; maybe it has been written over? I don't have a Media Center CD to try and reinstall it with, but I did try to reinstall the driver for Media Center with no success in recovering the missing screensaver.
Any more suggestions?
Cormac
Well you have 2 options to try.
First one is to do a search on your harddrive using *.scr and see if it appears anywhere on your computer.
Second one is to try and get a disk from the makers of your computer since you say it is new.
First one is to do a search on your harddrive using *.scr and see if it appears anywhere on your computer.
Second one is to try and get a disk from the makers of your computer since you say it is new.
mgc7399
OP
Hmm, I figured I would have to use the recovery disks. I did try to search for a .scr, but nothing came up for the maze.I had to burn two recovery DVDs off the D drive, but I was just avoiding using them because I'm a computer idiot and I'm afraid to screw the pc up. I was hoping there was some sort of undelete I could use instead, but I'll live. Since the computer is new I should be okay just to do a partial recovery, to reinstate whatever crap it came from the factory with, not a complete wipe of the hard drive and reinstall recovery, right?
Cormac
Scan those disks you burned using the command *.scr and see if it is even in there.
If it is great, then move it to the C:\Windows\System32 folder If not see if anyone you know is using Win xp media center and have them copy it to disk for you.
If none of those work you may be out of luck in getting it back.
Good Luck
If it is great, then move it to the C:\Windows\System32 folder If not see if anyone you know is using Win xp media center and have them copy it to disk for you.
If none of those work you may be out of luck in getting it back.
Good Luck
Charlieman5255
This will redownload the screen saver for you. I did NOT upload this, I accept No resposibility for any errors. However I have downloaded this and it works fine except for some reason most of the text in the setings is question marks. Ex. S????? ?f??
This is the only issue i've run into. Good Luck!!!!!!!
http://www.nickpar.dyndns.org/uploads/file...vers/3DMaze.scr
This is the only issue i've run into. Good Luck!!!!!!!
http://www.nickpar.dyndns.org/uploads/file...vers/3DMaze.scr
