Vista - Games folder not gathering information

Greetings,

I would like to know the following - is it possible to manually edit
information in the Games folder? If not, is there a way to have Vista poll
allgames for information manually? I have a number of games (some from
Microsoft) that the Games folder has steadfastly refused to retrieve the box
art and ESRB information from allgames as it should have.

Any suggestions??

"Bob Hessenauer" <Bob Hessenauer@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:A6129D54-3DD6-453B-87AE-779F6462F378@microsoft.com...

> I would like to know the following - is it possible to manually edit
> information in the Games folder? If not, is there a way to have Vista
> poll
> allgames for information manually? I have a number of games (some from
> Microsoft) that the Games folder has steadfastly refused to retrieve the
> box
> art and ESRB information from allgames as it should have.

Box art is working here but BBFC and PEGI ratings aren't coming down for me.

The data is stored in the registry under:

HKEY_LOCAL MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \
GameUX.

I've not yet tried editing myself, but you could give it a go.

--
Paul Smith,
Yeovil, UK.
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User.
http://www.windowsresource.net/

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Thanks for the heads up. I will give it a go. The help states that it
should ask for information when you manually add to the folder, but this is
not happening at this time. It might be a good idea if it tries to pull from
allgames.com (as it does for a number of games) and then presents a pop-up to
make sure that the right information is being pulled - or a search function
to allow this to happen.

I'll post results of manula editing once I have them.

"Paul Smith" wrote:

> "Bob Hessenauer" <Bob Hessenauer@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:A6129D54-3DD6-453B-87AE-779F6462F378@microsoft.com...
>
> > I would like to know the following - is it possible to manually edit
> > information in the Games folder? If not, is there a way to have Vista
> > poll
> > allgames for information manually? I have a number of games (some from
> > Microsoft) that the Games folder has steadfastly refused to retrieve the
> > box
> > art and ESRB information from allgames as it should have.
>
> Box art is working here but BBFC and PEGI ratings aren't coming down for me.
>
> The data is stored in the registry under:
>
> HKEY_LOCAL MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \
> GameUX.
>
> I've not yet tried editing myself, but you could give it a go.
>
> --
> Paul Smith,
> Yeovil, UK.
> Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User.
> http://www.windowsresource.net/
>
> *Remove 'nospam.' to reply by e-mail*
>
>

OK, we are getting quite close. I was able to gather and input all of the
information needed in the registry, except for the WMGameID. I think that if
I can get this value and place it in the appropriate registry keys the system
will perform as expected.

Any more suggestions??

PS - Thanks for the inpur to date...it has been extremely useful


"Paul Smith" wrote:

> "Bob Hessenauer" <Bob Hessenauer@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:A6129D54-3DD6-453B-87AE-779F6462F378@microsoft.com...
>
> > I would like to know the following - is it possible to manually edit
> > information in the Games folder? If not, is there a way to have Vista
> > poll
> > allgames for information manually? I have a number of games (some from
> > Microsoft) that the Games folder has steadfastly refused to retrieve the
> > box
> > art and ESRB information from allgames as it should have.
>
> Box art is working here but BBFC and PEGI ratings aren't coming down for me.
>
> The data is stored in the registry under:
>
> HKEY_LOCAL MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \
> GameUX.
>
> I've not yet tried editing myself, but you could give it a go.
>
> --
> Paul Smith,
> Yeovil, UK.
> Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User.
> http://www.windowsresource.net/
>
> *Remove 'nospam.' to reply by e-mail*
>
>

You may want to try looking into the "Game Definition File Editor" as an alternative to doing regedit. I know there are some games with a GDFbinary in the bin folder. I haven't yet been able to find a way to use this info to get windows to learn the developer information but I think this is the route that the windows games folder uses and it is our possible best bet to finding a way to get them to auto resolve without having to regedit all the time