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Lifer
Just did a little snooping, and found the way to edit the Games interface in Vista. When you install a game, it will automatically be added to the Games menu. I've installed Vista twice now, and both times, it incorrectly labeled Half-Life 2 as Half-Life: Source, and did not put in box art for it.
After searching within this interface, I found there is no way to edit it. However, after a little registry searching, I've found where these entries are, and I can confirm that changes work perfectly fine.
Entries are located at Local_Machine/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/GameUX.
Inside is a folder named Games, which is simply the games that came with Windows. In my particular case, there were two more folders under the Games folder that started with S-1*******and so-on and so-on. The first of those two are where my installed games reside, and once you see inside, there is a key for each and every thing you could hope to modify.
If you have games that registered correctly, you'll notice the box art is simply a URL from a Microsoft site. So to input the Half-Life 2 box art, I went to ebgames.com, and input the URL to their box art on the game page, and voila, works perfectly. I also changed the name back to Half-Life 2 from HL:Source, and I'm looking great now!
Hope this helps some of you.
**UPDATE** - Last night after posting this, the Games menu automatically added the Steam client to the list. I decided to keep it, and went to steampowered.com to get a logo for it. I input this URL into the registry, and the logo popped up fine. However, I then decided that I wanted to make my own logo with the correct aspect ratio, so it looked like box art, and blended nicely with the others. I like the look of cleanliness 🙂.
So I made a new logo, input the path from my Pictures folder, and I found that it would not change the logo in the Games menu. It kept with the first one I put in. I tried and tried and tried to get it to change to the new logo, but it was stuck on the first one I entered. What the hell?
I finally spied the entry "TimeToRefreshBoxArt". Since this is all hex code, I went to modify, changed the Base to Decimal, and input a value of just 1. I assumed this was in seconds, and lo and behold, this finally refreshsed my logo. I proceeded to set it back to what it was (make sure you copy the value before changing it!).
This fixed me right up!
After searching within this interface, I found there is no way to edit it. However, after a little registry searching, I've found where these entries are, and I can confirm that changes work perfectly fine.
Entries are located at Local_Machine/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/GameUX.
Inside is a folder named Games, which is simply the games that came with Windows. In my particular case, there were two more folders under the Games folder that started with S-1*******and so-on and so-on. The first of those two are where my installed games reside, and once you see inside, there is a key for each and every thing you could hope to modify.
If you have games that registered correctly, you'll notice the box art is simply a URL from a Microsoft site. So to input the Half-Life 2 box art, I went to ebgames.com, and input the URL to their box art on the game page, and voila, works perfectly. I also changed the name back to Half-Life 2 from HL:Source, and I'm looking great now!
Hope this helps some of you.
**UPDATE** - Last night after posting this, the Games menu automatically added the Steam client to the list. I decided to keep it, and went to steampowered.com to get a logo for it. I input this URL into the registry, and the logo popped up fine. However, I then decided that I wanted to make my own logo with the correct aspect ratio, so it looked like box art, and blended nicely with the others. I like the look of cleanliness 🙂.
So I made a new logo, input the path from my Pictures folder, and I found that it would not change the logo in the Games menu. It kept with the first one I put in. I tried and tried and tried to get it to change to the new logo, but it was stuck on the first one I entered. What the hell?
I finally spied the entry "TimeToRefreshBoxArt". Since this is all hex code, I went to modify, changed the Base to Decimal, and input a value of just 1. I assumed this was in seconds, and lo and behold, this finally refreshsed my logo. I proceeded to set it back to what it was (make sure you copy the value before changing it!).
This fixed me right up!
