Help ! Internet Explorer Lost

When I click the IE icon on my taskbar (or what everthat art of my screen is called to the left of and larger than the system tray) it says
'Can't Open this item - it might have been moved renamed or deleted'
This is my normal way of accessing this program
I am unable to locate it by the menu that appears when I click on the start button nor it it present when I select 'all programs' and look through that list.
It has gone.

How do I get it back ? (short of system restore)

Dumb_Question
4.February.2015

HP Pavilion dm4-1050ea - Windows 7 Home Premium

 

Thanks for quick response David
Meanwhile I downloaded Firefox, and that's now on my taskbar although I told only to create to create a desktop icon, which I did subsequently.
I read your post, and searched for 'IE as directed (I had already typed 'internet explorer' in the search box with the the same result) - no IE program showed up, just some other stuff topped by 6 CP entries of which I could see three (uninstall install and change/remove program).

So I'm no further n, except I now have Firefox (this is safari which have never previously used)

Dumb_Question
4.February.215

 

In fact I think the IE icon on my taskbar has trasnformed itself into a what looks like a blank sheet of paper icon

Dumb_Question
4.February.2015

 

Yes, I have both of these folders and they both contain a number of files and folders in them including iexplore.exe

(I didn't think to look there before, because I thought that these would be buried in OSv folders somewhere)...as they are in program folders why don't they show up under "all programs" ?

... have just read your first post post in full...:-o

Dumb_Question
4.February.2015

 

ok thanks David, it seems to be working now, has reappeared on the taskbar, though pin to taskbar did not seem too enough, it seems that I had to pin it to the start menu first/as well

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4.February.2015