CoD WaW & Windows 7 Games Explorer
Friday, September 04 2009 @ 06:26 PM BST
by sixshots
Users of Vista would recognize this but this is based off of my usage under Windows 7. People who are moving from Vista to Windows 7 will need to know about this or use a 3rd-party software tool to help do the task for you.
Games Explorer is a feature that was first introduced in Windows Vista. The goal is to collect all the game shortcuts and put it into a single centralized place instead of clogging up your Start Menu/Panel with useless and unnecessary shortcuts. After all, we just want to run the game and be done with it, right?
Windows Vista's Games Explorer allows us to edit tasks and commands so that you can make the game start up in a certain way instead of the default way. This is a feature that has gone missing in Windows 7, due to such a small number of people who actually use it. When this happen, power users and tweakers like myself have to fend for ourselves on setting up our game shortcuts the way we want it to be. And that means having to dive into Windows' hidden folders that you'd normally do not see (unless you set it to see hidden folders).
By default, World at War sets up your Games Explorer shortcuts so that the default double-click action is to start up Single/Co-Op mode. This is fine if you're a heavy zombie player. But most people would not be starting this up. Instead, they prefer to start up the Multi-Player mode of the game. Usually to do that, you'd have to right-click on the icon to bring up the game's context menu and selecting Multi-Player mode. That's two extra steps just to start up Multi-Player each and every time. But unlike some of the other games, WaW seems to have hidden protected shortcuts that prevented people like me from messing around with these startup tasks. So let's start poking around...
