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How to remove games from user access

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I am being asked to not allow users in one department to have access to games (XP workstations in an AD network environment). What is the easiest way to do that?

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by borginva

Login with full rights and remove their games. You should be able to remvoe the defaults form ADD/REMOVE SOFTWARE>COMPONETS.
Then make their login accounts set for "limited access". They should not be able to reload them again, especially without the CD.

by pierrejamme

Pet peeve of mine. Why can't their Supervisor supervise them. Why does IT have to be the bad guy?
Sorry,
Peter

by 3xp3rt

Login with administrator rights go to games directory, right click and go to properties, security and remove users who have acces to them.

by hozcanhan

Since you are asking about ACCESS to games(which means they are installed on a server )you have to "lock" the games directory for these users . Put the games under one directory preferably , and through its properties remove the users from the list of people allowed to access from the list . If you want to be "more" polite then go individually to each game's starting exe file and ( e.g. doom.exe , chess.exe ) like above disable banned users from access to these exe files.

by cg it

Group Policy since this is an Active Directory environment. you can remove games and grey out access to entertainment from the programs/accessories/entertain of the start menu.

by w2ktechman

Personally, I would remove the games from add/remove programs and restrict access to any games in other places. Also, unless they are needed CG IT has a good idea with group policies, they can be setup to "grey out" or even to not allow a user to "install" anything on the system. However, this leads to IT needing to come out and install everything, constantly. If you know the programs that need to be avoided, you can set up software policy that "these users cannot install these applications". I would set these as local machine policies unless they are technical enough to remove the policy.

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