Vista - Games Explorer

I certainly think that the idea of the Games Explorer is a good one. But...

Is there any explanation of how to get games to appear in the Games
Explorer? I have installed Oblivion and it runs OK. I have drag-and-dropped
the .EXE file into the Games Explorer as Vista Help suggests but this does
not work. A message comes up saying:

This file does not have a program associated with it for performing this
action. Create an association in the Set Associations control panel.

However, I don't know where this Set Associations control panel is. I have
tried to edit the properties of the "shortcut" created in the Games Explorer
but this doesn't work either (and the Edit button doesn't work).

Am I missing something? Or will Games Explorer only work with games which
the manufacturers have somehow set up to work with Games Explorer (in which
case it isn't anywhere near as good or useful as I thought).

I have noticed some shortcuts are not proper shortcuts at all (see Admin
tools for example) as the target path is different from normal. I suggest
manually creating a new shortcut pointing to the EXE file in c:\Program files
and use that instead.

--
P Hutchison


"Toran" wrote:

> I certainly think that the idea of the Games Explorer is a good one. But...
>
> Is there any explanation of how to get games to appear in the Games
> Explorer? I have installed Oblivion and it runs OK. I have drag-and-dropped
> the .EXE file into the Games Explorer as Vista Help suggests but this does
> not work. A message comes up saying:
>
> This file does not have a program associated with it for performing this
> action. Create an association in the Set Associations control panel.
>
> However, I don't know where this Set Associations control panel is. I have
> tried to edit the properties of the "shortcut" created in the Games Explorer
> but this doesn't work either (and the Edit button doesn't work).
>
> Am I missing something? Or will Games Explorer only work with games which
> the manufacturers have somehow set up to work with Games Explorer (in which
> case it isn't anywhere near as good or useful as I thought).

I think part of the Games Explorer is still a little bit from being full
working. I don't think you'll see games properly loaded there until games
come out with the Games for Windows certification, which as other
requirement like working with the Xbox 360 gamepad and has to work with
Media Center.


"Toran" <Toran@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:BA6A528A-1F1A-484F-9B58-ADF8BD15EDCA@microsoft.com...
>I certainly think that the idea of the Games Explorer is a good one. But...
>
> Is there any explanation of how to get games to appear in the Games
> Explorer? I have installed Oblivion and it runs OK. I have
> drag-and-dropped
> the .EXE file into the Games Explorer as Vista Help suggests but this does
> not work. A message comes up saying:
>
> This file does not have a program associated with it for performing this
> action. Create an association in the Set Associations control panel.
>
> However, I don't know where this Set Associations control panel is. I have
> tried to edit the properties of the "shortcut" created in the Games
> Explorer
> but this doesn't work either (and the Edit button doesn't work).
>
> Am I missing something? Or will Games Explorer only work with games which
> the manufacturers have somehow set up to work with Games Explorer (in
> which
> case it isn't anywhere near as good or useful as I thought).

Hi

The odd thing about the Games Explorer is I copied a game, Heretic II from a
Windows XP computer to my Vista computer (so the game was not installed) I
ran the game and now an icon appears in the Game Explorer, looks a bit
****ty though, the icon is small and low res, but it works. This game was
released in 1998. I installed Quake 4 from the original CD and no icon
appears?

"Dale White" <dale.white@NOinsightbb.NOcom> wrote in message
newsvGdnfQJ6KQvk03YnZ2dnUVZ_v6tnZ2d@newedgenetworks.com...
>I think part of the Games Explorer is still a little bit from being full
>working. I don't think you'll see games properly loaded there until games
>come out with the Games for Windows certification, which as other
>requirement like working with the Xbox 360 gamepad and has to work with
>Media Center.
>
>
> "Toran" <Toran@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:BA6A528A-1F1A-484F-9B58-ADF8BD15EDCA@microsoft.com...
>>I certainly think that the idea of the Games Explorer is a good one.
>>But...
>>
>> Is there any explanation of how to get games to appear in the Games
>> Explorer? I have installed Oblivion and it runs OK. I have
>> drag-and-dropped
>> the .EXE file into the Games Explorer as Vista Help suggests but this
>> does
>> not work. A message comes up saying:
>>
>> This file does not have a program associated with it for performing this
>> action. Create an association in the Set Associations control panel.
>>
>> However, I don't know where this Set Associations control panel is. I
>> have
>> tried to edit the properties of the "shortcut" created in the Games
>> Explorer
>> but this doesn't work either (and the Edit button doesn't work).
>>
>> Am I missing something? Or will Games Explorer only work with games which
>> the manufacturers have somehow set up to work with Games Explorer (in
>> which
>> case it isn't anywhere near as good or useful as I thought).
>
>