Get Games Explorer Working on Server 2008

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    • #46758

      Thats great! 🙂
      I can get the games explorer working by just registering gameux.dll and typing Games in windows explorer, but as you mentioned the games cannot be started, probably due to missing registry entries.I think the best way to resolve this is to monitor the games explorer on vista and server 2008 using process monitor and see whats wrong.

    • #46759

      Can you make a zip file w/ those files in it? My only Vista system (Vista Enterprise) doesn’t seem to have those files.

    • #46760

      Does it have the games explorer?

    • #46761

      Hi,

      First I have tried nixx42’s tutorial and as he said Game Explorer shows up but it is not functioning. After that I have searched Vista x86 setup image for Game Explorer files and found some more files in Windows directory. Copied all files to the Server 2008s Windows directory and restarted the Windows and voila! It’s alive 🙂 I have attached required files.

      1. Follow nixx42’s tutorial
      2. Change winsxs folders owner and gain write rights for there
      3. Extract archive to the Windows directory
      4. Restart (and cross your fingers :))

      If everything goes ok you should be able to use Games Explorer 😉

      [attachment=0:s8iqr955]ws2008gefiles.rar[/attachment:s8iqr955]

    • #46762

      Can someone upload files for x64?

    • #46766

      @IgorHW wrote:

      Can someone upload files for x64?

      I would also like to get those files! 😀

    • #46765

      May someone explain how to create HKLMSOFTWARE………… in detail. Thanks much. I don’t know where to start.

    • #46764

      @Tanaka wrote:

      May someone explain how to create HKLMSOFTWARE………… in detail. Thanks much. I don’t know where to start.

      Start>Run>type “regedit”>find keys HKLMSOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersion
      HKLM = HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE

    • #46763

      @IgorHW wrote:

      @Tanaka wrote:

      May someone explain how to create HKLMSOFTWARE………… in detail. Thanks much. I don’t know where to start.

      Start>Run>type “regedit”>find keys HKLMSOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersion
      HKLM = HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE

      Thanks much. I still confuse how to set owner to system. Thanks again

    • #46767

      I have managed to take the corrisponding files from Vista x64 and applied them to Server 2008 x64 and all is working perfectly, just need to find out how to install the Vista games, I took these games from the vista x64 and placed them in the same directory on server 2008, now it asks me for a Xinput file, which I also took from Vista, when inserted in Server 2008 the games will not load.

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