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how to remove windows games completely

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by hotrodgers

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how can i remove windows games from windows 2000 pro? ex: solitaire, pinball, mines and freecell? when i delete them or rename the exe file you can still type in the run sol.exe and it will still bring solitaire up...i can search pc for all sol.exeand remove them or even rename them and they wcan still type at the run command sol.exe and it will bring solitaire back up. i want to prevent my users from doing this..is there a way to completly remove the games or better yet how can i prevent access to them through mmc?
thanks sr

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by blackdiamond

Hey,

We do two things to limit these items from users.
1. We set NTFS security options on the files so that only the network admin can access the files.
2. We enable the Don't run Specified Windows Applications in Group Policy, under User Coniguration\Adminstrative Templates\System

Thanx

by leptor

C:\WINDOWS\system32\dllcache has a copy of all the software windows believes are NECESARY for perfect windows operation. For some reason Microsoft put SOL and the rest of the games on that list. If you remove the files there first, then blow away anything relating to the game you want to remove, you would have deleted it permanently. Hope this helps.

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