Have you ever put ICONS in the Games menu in Vista or Windows 7 that don’t work and will not let you delete them? Here is how to delete them from within the Registry.

Say you want to delete the Xfire ICON, but something happened to it that it is broke and does not work or give you a right click menu to delete or remove it from the list, well the only way to delete it is from the registry.  Below is the process that will show you how!

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Warning:

Do not mess with the Registry if you do not know what you are doing, removing or making changes incorrectly can cause severe problems with your Windows Operating system. I will not be responsible for any damage or lost programs, files or data.

1. Go to Start Menu, type regedit and press <Enter>. This will open the Registry Editor.
2. In the editor navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE / Software / Microsoft / Windows / CurrentVersion / GAMEUX. There are several long numbers (also called GUIDs) listed under GAMEUX.
3. Click on each one until you see the info on the Right side of the window.
4. Once you find the key info that contains the name of the ICON you want to remove, just right click on it and delete that registry entry folder.
5. By deleting the one I have highlighted yellow and circled in red it will delete the ICON called XFire.

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I had been using Windows 7 for a while now and then one day I booted up into it and bang IE 8 would not connect to the internet, what the heck. No matter what i tried it would not connect. I check all my settings and my network, I could connect to any computer on my network and the Network Sharing Center showed it connected to the web. I tried setting IP addresses and resetting my router, but nothing worked in IE 8 to connect.

Windows update worked fine, Anti-Virus updated fine along with everything else.

I downloaded FireFox and it worked fine. HHHHHMMMMMMM

I figured out why IE 8 wasn’t connecting to the internet and  have solved the problem, hopefully.

Control Panel > Network and Internet > Internet Options > Connections tab > LAN Settings >

Put a check mark in the box “Use a proxy Server for your LAN…”

Don’t worry about an IP address, at least i didn’t and it worked for me.

I don’t know if this is the cause of everyones problem, or even if this is a permanent fix, but try it, it may be your fix.

Also, I cannot figure why IE 8 worked fine on Windows 7 when it was first Installed, then just stopped working..

Hope this helps.