Organizing games

Plan and simple, Nope

Hold on a sec, just before we leave this.

Do you mean to have a folder, like any other folder but contain only shortcuts to your games.

But as for preview, do you just mean its icon, the picture icon that comes with the game?

Lucky

Is there a particular reason you do not want to use the Game Exploere itself?

You can add all your Games to it and customize it however you see fit.



This tutorial:
Games Explorer Folder - Add Games To

Will show you how to manually add your games.

You can make your own box art, add launch option to the context menu , and customize your game Explorer however you like.
I always like customizing it in this manner to suit my perferences, as seen in the snip here.

@wishmaster - yes, thank you for posting that image. I am really keen on having that folder on my desktop. I will try the link and if I still have troubles will ask more

edit: So I'm going through the tutorial and stuck trying to find a game with similar ESRB rating as Kane And Lynch 2 : Dog Days, which will also be LISTED in the notepad with list of all the old games. Does it have to have the same content, or does it only have to be "Mature"???

Quite Honestly, the rating itself will not effect anything if it isnt exactly correct.

If you use something like: Half Life for example, youll get a Mature Rating (Animated Blood,Violence)

I just try to get the base rating as close as possible (Mature,Teen etc) and dont worry to much about the details in it.

I focus more on editing the other info to fit particular the game;
Title, Release Date, Publisher/Devoloper, (and links) Box art etc.

okay thanks wishmaster, I'll continue on with the tutorial just using a "mature" rating game and post if I encounter any problems or if everything works out.

edit: so, i continued to do what i was supposed to, but whenever I accidently entered a image file location that was incorrect (for the shortcut image to be an icon), it ended up deleting the whole registry, so I've had to start over 3 times now. So while I try doing it again, could you please let me know how your supposed to properly open the "Game" folder, because the only time I can get it to look like yours (game provider and all games I have), is when I right click one of the games and select "Open File Location". I don't think this is normal, I would really like to be able to access the folder from my desktop without the hassle everytime

edit x2: yeah, sorry for editing so much and having such unnecessarily long questions. I figured out how to make the Game folder appear as a link in the start menu, so now my only question is whether I can make it appear on desktop

If you have the "Games" button in your Start menu, you can just drag it to desktop and it will create a shortcut on your desktop, that will lead to the Games Explorer.

If you don't have the link to Games Explorer in your Start menu, then right click on your Start button>properties>Start Menu tab>Customise> then find the "Games" part and click "Show as link" and click "Ok".