The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    Can you make windows detect games that only have game files

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by shinakuma9, Dec 31, 2009.

  1. shinakuma9

    shinakuma9 Notebook Deity

    Reputations:
    172
    Messages:
    1,512
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    55
    Okay so i just did a clean install of windows 7 today. But it said that windows saved a copy of my previous installation from windows.old.
    There are several games that i had gotten off friends that i didnt finish before upgrading and the game files are still there which i can copy to my current program files folder, but windows will not detect them as installed games.

    Is there any way of making windows detect them as installed games without installing them? I don't have the cd's for several games

    Prince of persia/Fallout 3/RE5 etc.
     
    shinakuma9, Dec 31, 2009
    #1
  2. Saisei

    Saisei Notebook Deity

    Reputations:
    108
    Messages:
    869
    Likes Received:
    1
    Trophy Points:
    31
    You do have the option to hide a game, by visiting game explorer.Game saves arent games so they wont get detected unless the save is matched w/ a version of the installed game.
     
    Saisei, Dec 31, 2009
    #2
  3. NBRUser0159099

    NBRUser0159099 Notebook Deity

    Reputations:
    184
    Messages:
    1,585
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    55
    well, if you can get them from your friends again, you can reinstall them and migrate your save files, that's what i did (except i had the files on my D:\, didnt get em from a friend :p).
     
    NBRUser0159099, Dec 31, 2009
    #3
  4. shinakuma9

    shinakuma9 Notebook Deity

    Reputations:
    172
    Messages:
    1,512
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    55
    I have all the save files/game files, all i want is them to be seen as installed games by windows. I don't think they are written in the registry is all.
     
    shinakuma9, Jan 1, 2010
    #4