I would image there is something the game creater has to do to say "Hey, I'm
a game! Put me in Games Explorer!". So I don't thing there is much you can
do.
Robert Firth
http://www.winvistainfo.org
"Spektor" <Spektor@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I have Vista Premium 64bit, my partitions were messed up so I installed it
>to
> play about with and back stuff up from my old partitions to format fully,
> during this I installed Medieval 2 Total War to which the games explorer
> automatically picked it up and added it with box art etc.
>
> However on this install, games explorer has not added it automatically, it
> won't seem to no matter what I run the game from (shortcut / direct exe /
> auto-play form cd) I can only make it work from games explorer by dragging
> the short cut into games explorer but this doesn't auto-update it with the
> box art and just has a nasty little icon in the middle.
>
> Anyway to make games explorer auto search for a particular game or
> something? 
>
> Thanks