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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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toddmack
toddmack

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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user633449
user633449

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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.

Shadow110
Shadow110

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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user633449
user633449

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-win_upgrade/removed-appshtml-file-on-desktop-windows-10/1613a1ec-645a-499a-8581-be28d3ca643e

There are some more details in that link on the problem.

toddmack
toddmack Question owner

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