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by john.turford

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Is there any way of stopping the downloading of games from the internet by users onto the client PCs on a W2K network by using group policy in active directory? If so, how can I do it please?

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by Former member

Disconnect the Internet? I mean, how are you going to tell the difference between useful .exe's and games? You can come at this at a different angle and go with W2K profiles/policies that don't give the users any rights to install programs...

by techkid

you can create a policy to deny certain exe's.

Create a GPO and call it "denied apps" or somthing, then>User Config>System>Don't run specified windows applications

There you can specify the exe of a given program. For example you could type in sol.exe and then the users wouldn't be able to run solitair. This works for any application. The only caveat is that if the user is real smart, he can rename the exe and then he'd be able to run it.

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