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| Guest | Still happy with Vista, but . . . (Games Explorer problem) Well, I've been running Vista for several weeks now. Generally speaking, I'm satisfied. Performance is good, my system is stable, and the majority of my applications and games are working and behaving as they should. I have to admit though, I have now run into a problem which is just downright annoying. The problem is with the new Games Explorer. I'm sure most of you here know what that is -- it's the new feature in Vista that serves as the central repository and starting point for all of the games installed on your system (allowing you to organize everything according to various criteria and such). It's a nice feature of course, and initially I got it to work. But unfortunately for me, the icons inside my Games folder have become seriously screwed up, and I've been unable to repair the situation. There's nothing wrong with the icons that represent the games that come with Windows itself (Chess, InkBall, Purple Place, etc.), but the icons for most of the games I've installed myself are in a complete state of confusion. They are THERE, but have become SHUFFLED and INCORRECTLY ASSIGNED to the wrong entries within the Games folder (sometimes the correct icon for a game doesn't appear at all). It's such a turn-off that I ended up disabling the Games link on the Start menu. Something tells me that one of the possible reasons for this occurrence might be the fact that all of the games I've installed myself are from the Win98 to WinXP era and are not officially "Vista Certified." Maybe all of the games that are released from this date forward (the DirectX 10 titles especially) will know how to better integrate themselves with this particular aspect of Vista. Microsoft: I support you, but this is the kind of silly bug that should never surface in an OS (assuming that it's Windows' fault). By now you should be able to know how to get icons to behave correctly. Anybody else experiencing this problem? -- Vista Ultimate 32-Bit Core 2 Duo 2.40 GHz, 2 GB RAM, EVGA 8600 GTS |
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| Guest | Re: Still happy with Vista, but . . . (Games Explorer problem) Erich, I have several XP games (and a couple of win98) installed into the Games Explorer and so far I have not experienced the kind of problem you mention. I do experience a loss of config all the time, i.e. the list switches size and they resort themselves, lose groupings, etc. But they always work. Mark "Erich Kohl" <ekohl@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message news:Ljtri.1729$Yz6.1312@newssvr22.news.prodigy.net... > Well, I've been running Vista for several weeks now. Generally > speaking, I'm satisfied. Performance is good, my system is stable, and > the majority of my applications and games are working and behaving as > they should. > > I have to admit though, I have now run into a problem which is just > downright annoying. The problem is with the new Games Explorer. > > I'm sure most of you here know what that is -- it's the new feature in > Vista that serves as the central repository and starting point for all > of the games installed on your system (allowing you to organize > everything according to various criteria and such). > > It's a nice feature of course, and initially I got it to work. But > unfortunately for me, the icons inside my Games folder have become > seriously screwed up, and I've been unable to repair the situation. > There's nothing wrong with the icons that represent the games that come > with Windows itself (Chess, InkBall, Purple Place, etc.), but the icons > for most of the games I've installed myself are in a complete state of > confusion. They are THERE, but have become SHUFFLED and INCORRECTLY > ASSIGNED to the wrong entries within the Games folder (sometimes the > correct icon for a game doesn't appear at all). It's such a turn-off > that I ended up disabling the Games link on the Start menu. > > Something tells me that one of the possible reasons for this occurrence > might be the fact that all of the games I've installed myself are from > the Win98 to WinXP era and are not officially "Vista Certified." Maybe > all of the games that are released from this date forward (the DirectX > 10 titles especially) will know how to better integrate themselves with > this particular aspect of Vista. > > Microsoft: I support you, but this is the kind of silly bug that should > never surface in an OS (assuming that it's Windows' fault). By now you > should be able to know how to get icons to behave correctly. > > Anybody else experiencing this problem? |
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| Guest | Re: Still happy with Vista, but . . . (Games Explorer problem) Mark wrote: > Erich, > I have several XP games (and a couple of win98) installed into the > Games Explorer and so far I have not experienced the kind of problem > you mention. I do experience a loss of config all the time, i.e. the > list switches size and they resort themselves, lose groupings, etc. > But they always work. > > Mark > Okay, thanks for your input. I'm just glad that my games do work . . . seems there are people experiencing serious software compatibility problems, but the situation is not that bad with me. Maybe MS will discover the Games Explorer bug that I mentioned and fix it -- at the moment, however, there's really nothing I can do about it. |
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