SubJeff on 3/9/2009 at 09:53
I've found that installing games in Vista often doesn't lead to a shortcut on the desktop (they don't offer) and there is no link to start in the start menu.
This has happened in the past few days with Batman Arkham Asylum demo, which I have to navigate to with explorer to start, and now with the Min Ninjas demo.
The Mini Ninjas demo. Where the hell is it? I ran the installer but can find no way to start it. Its not in the Eidos folder, I've searched for "mini" and "ninja" and only come up with an empty safe folder and the original .exe installer.
This is seriously starting to piss me off now. Goddammit Microsoft!
EvaUnit02 on 3/9/2009 at 10:07
The Games Explorer.
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http://img30.imageshack.us/i/clipboard01spo.jpg/)
Inline Image:
http://img30.imageshack.us/img30/7978/clipboard01spo.jpgYou can customise the Start menu so that there's a Games pop-up menu.
Vista isn't doing anything, it's entirely the game installer. A lot of games released since 2007 are like this, no desktop icons or Start Menu groups are created at all. They assume that you have Vista (or newer) installed. I remember after installing Fallout 3 and GRAW 2 under XP and being puzzled as to why there were no shortcuts created anywhere.
Matthew on 3/9/2009 at 10:11
'Tis my favourite feature of Vista.
SubJeff on 3/9/2009 at 11:19
Not there.
Alot of stuff is there, in a folder galled MyGames and I start Company of Heroes from there but Batman and Mini Ninjas aren't there, GTA3 isn't there, other stuff isn't there. Oddly lots of Valve stuff is there that I have through Steam, and even DevC++!!
I reinstalled Ninjas and got the shortcut on the desktop.
Nameless Voice on 7/9/2009 at 22:06
That games folder is a buggy piece of garbage if it's the same as the one in Windows 7.
I created a shortcut to Fallout 2 in there while testing Windows 7 - it wouldn't let me rename the shortcut, change its properties, or do anything with it, and when I ran Fallout 2 from there, it gave a bunch of error messages and had totally corrupted graphics. The game ran fine if started from its .exe file directly.
As for where games are installed to, whatever folder you specified when you installed them, since surely no one would leave them at their default install paths, which are idiotic nine times out of ten.
ZylonBane on 15/9/2009 at 18:51
Games Explorer: For users too retarded to make a folder and put shorcuts in it.
Nameless Voice on 15/9/2009 at 20:32
Windows 7's new start menu: Preventing you from making custom and orderly folders in the start menu and forcing you to put them elsewhere.
Matthew on 15/9/2009 at 21:19
Quote Posted by ZylonBane
Games Explorer: For users too retarded to make a folder and put shorcuts in it.
Or too busy. Or just plain lazy. God forbid that computers actually be streamlined so that people like my parents can use them more efficiently, after all.
SubJeff on 17/9/2009 at 00:31
Seems my games folder doesn't refresh enough is all. Hmmm.
