Comments on: Game Controllers

By: K.

K. — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 12:27:04 +0000

Thank you for this amazing tutorial.

By: beakybal4

beakybal4 — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 14:36:16 +0000

Man, u ROCK, epic tutorial.
love u man

Josh.

By: Kelel

Kelel — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 20:51:28 +0000

Man thanks for this awesome tutorial. I wouldn’t mind hearing how you figured this all out. I know it must have taken quite a bit of your time.

Again, Thanks!

Kelel

By: thomas

thomas — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 23:02:50 +0000

well, it needs some registry settings, obviously.

note that the CLSID can be anything that does not already exist in the registry. but of course it has to be the same in all 7 places below.
also, the path maybe must be adjusted.

someone might test it… and eventually find a better solution.
let me know, if there are problems

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{4299124F-F2C3-41b4-9C73-9236B2AD0E8A}]
@=”USB Game Controller”
“System.ControlPanel.Category”=”4″

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{4299124F-F2C3-41b4-9C73-9236B2AD0E8A}\DefaultIcon]
@=”C:\\Windows\\System32\\joy.cpl”

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{4299124F-F2C3-41b4-9C73-9236B2AD0E8A}\Shell]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{4299124F-F2C3-41b4-9C73-9236B2AD0E8A}\Shell\Open]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{4299124F-F2C3-41b4-9C73-9236B2AD0E8A}\Shell\Open\Command]
@=”C:\\Windows\\System32\\control.exe joy.cpl”

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ControlPanel\NameSpace\{4299124F-F2C3-41b4-9C73-9236B2AD0E8A}]
@=”USB Game Controller”

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\ControlPanelWOW64\NameSpace\{4299124F-F2C3-41b4-9C73-9236B2AD0E8A}]
@=”USB Game Controller”

Arris: Looks convincing! Thanks for your work ; I’ll add it to the installer when I have some time.

By: thomas

thomas — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 19:47:33 +0000

you can also integrate the controller into the control panel…

http://www.imagebam.com/image/89765767191664

Arris: That’s nice! How did you do that?

By: Jake

Jake — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:48:30 +0000

Thank you so much!

By: Peter

Peter — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 14:50:42 +0000

I installed 64bit version of win2008r2, went through the tutorial (which is awesome, thank you for it), and now I figured out that there are messed-up icons in 32bit applications, for example in “save file” dialogs.
All icons of files and directories (even on the left side) are icons of “unknown file”.
It seems that 32bit applications are fully functional, but it is annoying and confusing every time I want to save or open a file with dialog…

Could you please help me?

By: mage7

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By: Torsten

Torsten — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 12:15:51 +0000

Thank you ver much , 90% of it is working!! great work!

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:39:05 +0000

A big thanks to the author! This guide is really something like the best thing ever!