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After updating my OS and re-installing Firefox I've lost several programs, they are now in a new desktop folder. "Removed Apps". How do I recover them?

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Basically I can no longer play Battlefield 3. There is a new icon on my desktop with the firefox logo "removed apps". There doesn't seem to be any way to restore anything that was removed.

Basically I can no longer play Battlefield 3. There is a new icon on my desktop with the firefox logo "removed apps". There doesn't seem to be any way to restore anything that was removed.

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Did you refresh Windows? or Reset it? That's usually where that folder comes from. You'll have to re-install those programs. Regardless this isn't a Firefox issue, that file is just an HTML file that opens in Firefox because it's your web browser.

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Did you refresh Windows? or Reset it? That's usually where that folder comes from. You'll have to re-install those programs. Regardless this isn't a Firefox issue, that file is just an HTML file that opens in Firefox because it's your web browser.

Hi, that is a Windows 10 thing. It did not like the programs and uninstalled or moved them. You will have to reinstall them again.

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Thanks for taking the time to reply to this, got it figured out thanks to your help.