Windows 7: Windows 7 Game Explorer interfering with Game launching

I've been without the net for about a week, and was agitated to notice that many of my games would not launch immediately, at first i thought it was my display drivers but more digging and watching the activity of Rundll upon a game launch, (and the fact that games not registered in the game exporer worked fine).



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VV's and Testing appreciated, though im sure my 3 individual systems with individual configurations and setups are more then enough imo.