http://www.rinkworks.com/stupid/

yeh uhh i think i deleted the internet

you deleted the internet ?

yeh i removed the big ole blue E

Additionally, you may have had a new version of Windows and so, the old installer and start menu/screen links and what not are gone. So you go to the game's folder, and delete the folder, then Empty the Recycle Bin. Other than that, skeletonbow sums it up nicely if you either installed the game through Galaxy or through a download.

And take a bit of zeogold's comments, no, its not Steam. You may make it like Steam, and you may make it not like Steam, your choice.

"Let me esplain."
::looks at typical skeletonbow post::
"No, there is too much. Let me sum up."

The Steam-generation, the ones who wonder how can you even install a GOG game (without Galaxy). There are all those scary exe and bin files (the extensions that the stupid Windows hides from users by default) you need to download first with a web browser, and then they have vanished somewhere and are nowhere to be found (to the Windows Downloads folder most probably).

Even though I don't currently use Galaxy myself, I am happy GoG has come up with Galaxy so that I don't have to instruct newbies how to download and install stuff from the internets with your mere web browser. The old GOG Downloader client was making it even harder to understand for many, having to log into GOG both through your web browser and the client at the same time, etc.

The most ironic thing is, you can't install Steam or Chrome or whatever without the .exes. Lol. Then they try the awkward steam way and call it 'convenient'. So much for an INconvenient solution.

I think you're mis-attributing that. I think you'd be better off calling it the Facebook generation. There's no install at all for that sort of flash game, and thus no reason to know how to install something manually. I think it's the paradigm we're going toward, again;cloud services, streaming games. Thin clients, the "nicer" modern name for the dumb terminals of the mainframe era. I'm old enough to have seen the pendulum do two full swings for business software, and games are surely a business, these days.

With Steam, at least, you *do* have to install a game, even though it's wholly automated. Even though it's one tiny step from a cache, to clear with your cookies after you do your personal browsing for the day ;)

Believe me this is far too common, I often get a lot of PC's for repairs and most people don't know how to remove installed applications. Mind you on one laptop I even found 5 different browsers (excluding IE), yes 5.

Its sad to think that my seven year old son could work a computer better.

Browsers are like Pokemon ^^ - you gotta own them all - didn't you know ;) ?

My kids are well aware of how to install and remove programs on everything up through Windows 7. I don't personally mess with windows 8 (installed a shell on my wife's Win8 laptop to let the start menu be a start menu again).