Games Explorer Folder - Delete a Game

AAW007 said:

Another brilliant solution from SevenForums, worked perfectly!

Thanks.

P.S. The "games" i was trying to remove from the Games Explorer window were also Internet Shortcuts (IE) to an online game. I think that, although the system allows you to "Create a shortcut here" Internet shortcuts are incompatible with Games Explorer. They do not show the correct icon neither do they do anything - clicking on them does absolutely nothing. Windows should not let you copy them there, or should at least give you a warning message...

Thanks again,

Adam.

You're most welcome Adam, and welcome to Seven Forums. :)

Thanks Brink.

I had found a number of good solutions and advice on Seven Forums so I just wanted to join to say so.

I regularly google for help on forums recently but have never been tempted to join, until now. (Mainly due to the experts like you rather than just the opinions of "stupid street" and not too technical like the MS Tech forums.)

Very user friendly

Anyway....,

Thanks again.

You're most welcome TDSM, and welcome to Seven Forums. :)

I had been so frustrated about not being able to delete 3 pseudo shorcuts to the game Civilization V from the Games folder. The "shorcut" was actually a URL. I have tried 3 times to make a shorcut for my game there but without success. I ended up with 3 unclickable (left or right click) generic files with the correct name for the name but zero functionality. This all thanks to the program STEAM, which I believe to be sent from the proverbial Dark Side of the Force, to put it in Lucas terms. It appears one MUST go through their godforsaken program to access Civ V. Anyhow, that's another story.

I did a Google search about my problem and found this thread with the EXACT, and I really do mean EXACT, solution. THANK YOU SO MUCH. What a relief! Kudos to brilliant minds such as yours! With my deepest gratitude.

:):):)

Araaraart
June 2012

You're most welcome Araaraart, and welcome to Seven Forums.

Hello Rick, and welcome to Seven Forums.

While doing the tutorial, do you have a AppExePath registry entry without a name of a program for it's data?

thank you for this!
i'm using windows 8.1 and uninstalled all the wildtangent games
and found all their links to their websites were still in the games folder
and on the apps screen too with no way to get rid of them...

i deleted the entire GameUX key and rebooted
and the entire games folder was gone! :)
solved everything...