How do you add games to the Vista games menu?

quicker way of loading games is to create a shortcut to the game, call it say 'hl2' then place that shortcut in c:\windows\system32 folder

now, start, run, hl2

game loads :)
 
I took a look round the registry and the game browser games are stored in HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\GameUX\....

From what I have, the 'Games' folder contains windows games, and there's another one which looks like some random text which contains all the other games. Each game has a key containing a url to an image.

Not tried changing it yet though.
 
k I've tried changing it but I think it's probably downloading the image somewhere and caching it. Can't get it to use the url I've put in yet.

(editing game names does work fine though)
 
well I'm getting there:

gexp.JPG


C:\Users\<Username>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\GameExplorer\GamesBoxArt

but it currently only works for games that already have information downloaded

It wouldn't be /too/ much effort to change the registry around to make it look like it had downloaded the information.

ps my paint.NET skillz are amazing.
 
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