Programs not showing in search or uninstall list after system restore

[craglyboy]

Hi guys,

I was wondering if anyone could help. Basically I have had to perform a system restore/refresh and chose to keep my files. When windows rebooted up the login issues I was having were gone but I now can't find my programs in the normal way I could.

I can go into the file explorer and find the program I want to run and it will run, and steam has found all my games and will play them without reinstalling. But if I type in the search bar nothing appears for the program, if I go to start>all apps none of my apps appear and if I go to add/remove software none appear there either. I looked in the registry but there are only programs there that were installed after the restore.

What I am asking is there anyway to force the windows to see these programs again as they all work like they did before the refresh, it's just a ball ache finding them.

 

[wpgwpg]

If these programs were installed after the date of the restore point, that could explain it. For example if you installed something in May and used a restore point created in April, anything installed after the date of the restore point would be affected.

Good luck.