Disable all games windows xp

We can't guarantee quick solutions - Experts Exchange isn't a help desk. We're a community of IT professionals committed to sharing knowledge. Our experts volunteer their time to help other people in the technology industry learn and succeed. Plans and Pricing. Contact Us. Certified Expert Program. Credly Partnership. Udemy Partnership. Fair enough, so why is it that pinball. System administrators are often asked to remove games such as FreeCell or Pinball from Windows machines.

Sometimes deleting the executables and their shortcuts is not as easy as you might think; Windows will restrict you from deleting them. To remove these components you will need to use the sysocmgr.

This utility uses a txt file that can be scripted. Here is an example of how you can use this utility to remove the Pinball game from a Windows XP machine:.

Users may use any of the switches based on their requirement. After the execution of this command you will find that the Pinball game from your system has been removed. Additionally, this uses checksum so even if they rename a file it will not run. Check it out. What was posted previously looks good but some of the more talented users could pull games from the Internet or simply from a floppy.

If there are programs that does application blocking like BrowseControl , you can probably block regedit. Is there any other way that I can resolved this. Any help and advice would be highly appreciated. Thanks and more power. That is a horrible way to get rid of games for people in a company. I created an script in order to delete Game folders and it worked.

Thank you all for your comments. You can add software limitation rule via GPO, that will disable specific exe file from being run. In the GPO make sure you go by hash as opposed to "pinball. You'd have to either do it manually or by silent uninstall. In order to do the latter you'd have to verify what games are installed first, but keep in mind not all software can be silently uninstalled at least not easily , especially games are not designed to support silent uninstallation.

The second step would be removing administrator privileges from your users, so they cannot install anything. They will still be able to run stuff from pendrives, etc. In order to prevent that, the third step would be implementing software limitations via GPO, as mentioned above, but instead of blacklist methodology, disable everything and enable only apps that are actually in use in your network.

The is a little trick you can pull, if you have enterprise antivirus you can always add it as a known virus ; that way the person trying to run it will get a scare too If you use RT7Lite and remove it from the install all-together, they can have whatever rights they want and still will not be able to add it Good thinking, just leave that script intact so you can run it after people reinstall from the control panel. To continue this discussion, please ask a new question.