Vista Games Explorer Crashes. Help!

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  1. Soilwork

    Soilwork Master Guru

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    Hi All
    My Windows Vista 32bit installation has developed a nasty little problem. My games explorer will not open. Basically, the Games explorer window appears and then fades out. Thus I cannot play any of my games at the moment. I have tried wiundows Vista recovery, but that has not helped. Does anyone know how I can fix this?
     
  2. Animatrix

    Animatrix Ancient Guru

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    What happens if you make a new user account and open it using that ?

    There do seem to be some issues with it, but i have no definitive answer. It may have something to do with the start menu (try default setup), or maybe some needed service, or simply some issues caused by one of the games installed.

    There is really nothing in the links about your problem but maybe it's worth a look.
    http://forums.2kgames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12251
    http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=566743
    http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=550510
    http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb173432.aspx
     
  3. Soilwork

    Soilwork Master Guru

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    Thanks for the links, no help though. Looks like time for a format and reinstall, then to beg MS on hand and knees for an activation code :(
     

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