Hi, I recently uninstalled STALKER but have been left with a shortcut in my Games/Unspecified location. No matter what I do I cannot delete it. I cannot click, right click or drag the item to do anything with it, it is just there. I have tried running Ccleaner and trying to find any registry entries related to it but it still wont budge. Any ideas ?
Cannot delete "unspecified" game
- Thread starter Darkst4r
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Download and run this. Should get rid of it http://www.purgeie.com/delinv/
Easier said than done, been trying for 2 hours to locate it. All remnants of the game have gone apart from this one file. It looks like an .exe file but without the icon, as if it has already been uninstalled (which it has), it just won't go.
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Have you tried CCleaner, to get rid off it.
Waheeeey, I finally managed it and it's only taken all day 
For anyone else that may get this freakish problem heres how I solved it. Open Regedit and navigate to the following key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\GameUX\S-1-5-21-342044676-311504734-1810751311-1001
You should see a list of confusing looking keys. Click on each one until you find the one which displays information about the game you want to remove.
Right click and delete it, log off or restart and the game/stubborn icon will be gone from the games folder.
For anyone else that may get this freakish problem heres how I solved it. Open Regedit and navigate to the following key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\GameUX\S-1-5-21-342044676-311504734-1810751311-1001
You should see a list of confusing looking keys. Click on each one until you find the one which displays information about the game you want to remove.
Right click and delete it, log off or restart and the game/stubborn icon will be gone from the games folder.