Organizing games on PC

enigma27 · 13 Mar 2017 at 22:28

Hi All.

anyone got any neat tricks or software to better organised there Games library?

Fed up of having loads of icons on my desktop and wondered if there is anything good to sort icons from stean, origin, uplay etc.

sgavan · 14 Mar 2017 at 06:15

Create a folder with the shortcuts then on the taskbar create a shortcut to the folder. Or I think windows 10 may be bringing a similar feature to the start menu, but not sure about this yet.

D3K · 14 Mar 2017 at 06:39

enigma27 said:
Hi All.

anyone got any neat tricks or software to better organised there Games library?

Fed up of having loads of icons on my desktop and wondered if there is anything good to sort icons from stean, origin, uplay etc.

I use fences from stardock. Paid a tenner a few years back and worth every penny

GBRusty · 14 Mar 2017 at 08:14

D3K said:
I use fences from stardock. Paid a tenner a few years back and worth every penny

So, does it save the icons from going all over the place when I run a game in weird resolution that upsets my carefully placed ones?
Might get this fence thing

enigma27 · 14 Mar 2017 at 08:45

Thanks will take a look at fences also.

ossieclap · 14 Mar 2017 at 09:10

I use Rocketdock exclusively for shortcuts to my games. I set it to auto-hide on my desktop and to popup when my mouse pointer touches the top of the screen. Has been working well for a number of years

Nemeses · 14 Mar 2017 at 09:32

ossieclap said:
I use Rocketdock exclusively for shortcuts to my games. I set it to auto-hide on my desktop and to popup when my mouse pointer touches the top of the screen. Has been working well for a number of years

Does it pop up if you in-game and your mouse touches top of screen?

ChrisD. · 14 Mar 2017 at 09:34

Clean desktop, install to start menu. Simply press the Windows key and type in the name of the game I want to play.

DONOHUE07 · 14 Mar 2017 at 09:50

I use Razer comms, open it up and it neatly displays all my installed games, it's also a very good voice program

ossieclap · 14 Mar 2017 at 10:35

Nemeses said:
Does it pop up if you in-game and your mouse touches top of screen?

You can configure the layering within the Dock Settings-Position category. e.g Always on top, always on bottom etc....

The default is to layer above general windows but not to interfere if you're playing in Fullscreen.

Sp00n · 14 Mar 2017 at 10:49

ChrisD. said:
Clean desktop, install to start menu. Simply press the Windows key and type in the name of the game I want to play.

SilverTongue · 14 Mar 2017 at 10:57

tend to only have a couple of games on the go at a time, plus a couple of "ongoing" i.e mmo's or non fully open word stuff like et2 so only have about 5-6 game shortcuts on desktop plus opffice-y bits, think I have 3 columns of shortcuts and crop desktop backgrounds in a way that the shortcuts don't interfere. When I finish a game I delete the shortcut and replace it with the game I'm playing after

smogsy · 14 Mar 2017 at 11:36

add them all to steam or this:

https://www.launchbox-app.com/

Witcher1980 · 14 Mar 2017 at 13:30

I gave up with icons so I just set up categories in Steam now.

http://imgur.com/jEkU3JP

GBRusty · 14 Mar 2017 at 15:03

That's the thing, it's not just Steam. I've got origin, windows, GOG, UBI etc.

Witcher1980 · 15 Mar 2017 at 14:03

Yeah same, just add them all as non steam games.

V4NT0M · 15 Mar 2017 at 14:05

Delete the icons from your desktop... Problem solved?

ttaskmaster · 15 Mar 2017 at 14:18

D3K said:
I use fences from stardock. Paid a tenner a few years back and worth every penny

Likewise. Got it in a Humble Bundle. Fantastic stuff!

demonix · 15 Mar 2017 at 14:27

This is why I loved the start screen in windows 8 and 8.1 as you can set what you wanted on it and have them in specific groups which is mostly intact on the start menu in windows 10 (although I haven't experimented with that yet).