Not all installed games appear

Jekyll and Hyde

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Hi folks,

Something has always puzzled me, then again everything does lol but you know when you click on start and there is a Games button that you can use to play and manage your games? well when I install my games only some appear in there and its rather handy to see the ratings and such, not that I really follow it, but that is another story.

Back to my question, why do only a few games appear there, if anyone does'nt know what I mean, its the the screen which has a trophy icon on it and then the ratings etc.........I just find that only a few games appear there, but not all that I have installed, is this just a quirk of Vista? or is there something I can do to make it show all of them?

As I install alot of games, I would like them all to appear there, but am confused as to why not.

Jekyll and Hyde :)
 

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Hi,
Unfortunately not all games are supported by Games Explorer, and there's nothing you can do about it, except wait until MS adds them to their library ;)
 

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Hello Jekyll and Hyde!

Have a look at this article posted over at the new Windows Seven Forums.















Later ;) Ted
 

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Hi Rhystic1,

That explains it then......thank you, for a minute I was thinking that I have another problem, me and my paranoia I don't know!! lol

Cheers

Jekyll and Hyde ;)
 

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Hi Ted,

Thanks for that, good to know, although I don't much look forward to DX11, I know it will be along time before I install that when it comes along, I was always told to wait awhile for any problems to be ironed out.

Jekyll and Hyde ;)
 

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Hello again J & H.

You're welcome; that's a sound policy!















Later ;) Ted
 

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Hi Ted,

Well I ended up learning that the hard way, involving many late nights and painful days formatting and well I'm sure you know the drill :D

Chris
 

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    GeForce 8800 GTX 768MB
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    Onboard
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    19" Belinea
    Screen Resolution
    1280 x 1024
    Hard Drives
    500 Gig Barracuda
    PSU
    No idea
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    Cooler Master
    Cooling
    a few fans and a Zalman something or other.......
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    Logitech G15
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    Logitech G9 Laser Mouse
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