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 looking for a good Disk Partition software to use that would work with a (RAID O) Drive setup, and well after a little investigating, I came upon this program called  “EASEUS Partition Manager 3.0 Home Edition”. I installed it and gave it a try, well now it is very simular to Partition Magic, but this Home Version is a Free Ware program. They also have a “Professional and Server Edition” Which most of us will not have any need for. It worked perfectly, I have a Set of WD Drives 160 GB each set on a RAID O setup, at first I was a little skepticle, but it never failed me, worked like a charm, I added a 80 GB partition with no problems using Windows XP Pro.

Instructions below:
1. I  had first to shrink my main partition to allow an 80GB unalocated partition space.

2. I then applied the settings and rebooted my PC to make sure it was ok.

3. I then formatted the unalocated 80GB space as NTFS, smooth as a whistle.

4. Rebooted to finish and all was just fine no problems.

After checking the program out some more, I found that you can use the graphical layout to just slide the edge of the box contianing the partion around to resize, of move it from one place to another and then click apply and it will do its job.

DOWNLOAD EASEUS Partition Manager 3.0 Home Edition Here.

I have 3 video tutorial links below to show basic usage.

Video (1) how to make unallocated space to use for an extra Partition.
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#1. Click Here to View the Video Tutorial
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Video (2) how to format and assign a drive letter to the unallocated Space.
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#2. Click Here to View the Video Tutorial
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Video (3) how to mount Windows 7 beta ISO and start the install using Daemon Tools
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#3. Click Here to View the Video Tutorial
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Click here to view how to install Windows 7 Beta using Daemon Tools instead of burning it to a DVD.

To access the Vista Features screen you should follow these steps:

1.        Click on the Start button to open your Start Menu.

2.       When the Start Menu opens click on the Control Panel menu option.

         3.     When the Control Panel window opens click on the Uninstall a program option under the Programs category. 
If you are using the Classic View of the Control Panel, then you would double-click on the Programs and Features icon instead. This option is shown by the arrow and red box in the image below.

     4.  You will now have opened the Programs and Features screen, which is the Uninstall or change a program screen, as   shown in the image below.

To access the Windows features screen you need to single-click on the option labeled Turn Windows features on or off is designated by the arrow and red box in the image above.

        Windows Vista will now ask for your permission to access the Windows Vista Features. You should click on the Continue button to give this permission.

The Windows Vista Feature List window will now open displaying all the Features available for your version of Vista. An entry can be a single feature or a feature with sub features. When enabling features that have sub features it is possible to only enable those sub features that are required by you. This enables you to finely tune how you want Vista to operate.

To enable a feature, simply put a checkmark next to the feature name. To disable a feature simply remove the check from the feature or one of its sub features. Once you have disabled and enabled the features you want on or off, you need to click the OK button to save these changes. Your PC will now have to be restarted for the changes to take effect, this may take a few minutes while it enables or disables the selected or unselected features.

Now that you know how to access the Windows Vista Feature List and to activate and disable features, you can control what programs and capabilities are available to you when using Vista.