Games For Windows Shortcuts in VISTA...

Let's say you have 2 hard drives.

Each has a copy of the same game but only one is linked to the shortcut in your desktop.

How do you find out which one of the hard drives contains the one linked to the shortcut so that you can delete the one that you are not using?

You would be wrong to say, "Right click and you will see the 'Location'" as this will NOT reveal which drive it is linked to.

For example: Gears of War For Windows. Shortcut is located in VISTA Desktop. You right click, expecting the target to reveal a directory address. Instead, it says, "Gears of War for Windows". It doesn't say, "D:\Gamez\Gears of War" or something like that.

I swear, they are making things unnecessarily complicated.

Right Click---->Properties

Open File Location shows the drive on mine. Of course, I have full path enabled in the folder options.

Or look in the box which says "Start In"

Holy crap! Really? Windows 7 took that away? You mean...Windows 7 is more convoluting?

Right Click---->Properties

Open File Location shows the drive on mine. Of course, I have full path enabled in the folder options.

jun_aka_pekto

Right click what?

Or look in the box which says "Start In"

jun_aka_pekto

Box? Star in? What?

Neither of those will work on shortcuts created for/by the Games Explorer in Vista. The Games Explorer shortcuts are... special, and basically apps in themselves. To find out the install location for the game you need to open up the Games Explorer, right click the shortcut, and select customize. Then go to the Play item in the list box and select Edit to see where it is pointing to. Yes it is convoluted, but Windows 7 took even that away in the new Games Explorer.carlosjuero

Yeah, that's what I thought too, those shortcuts aren't just shortcuts. My first impression was that these were kinda like apps in themselves. The question is...why?