Still happy with Vista, but . . . (Games Explorer problem)
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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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Vista Ultimate 32-Bit
Core 2 Duo 2.40 GHz, 2 GB RAM, EVGA 8600 GTS
Linear Mode
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