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Disabling games that come with Windows is an easy task that doesn't involve any adjustments to Windows' registry.
I want to disable the windows games, like pinball and minesweeper. How can I do this in Regedit? I've made a registry back up and everything, I just want to know what values to set and where to find them.
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Wanna make sure people can't play games? Fair enough.
Playing games with the registry isn't needed though.
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Rather digging around in the registry, how about just uninstalling the games? In Control Panel, Add/Remove Programs, Add/Remove Windows Components, select Accessories and Utilities and press Details. Now deselect Games and press OK and/or Finish your way out. That should remove the games completely.
Without any risk to your registry.
Article C2259 - January 12, 2005
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That is a horrible way to get rid of games for people in a company. Not everyone is ignorant of the process and can simply reinstall the games by undoing what you did in the first place. However, not everyone is comfortable messing with the registry if it means ruining an OS on a computer they don't own.
Posted by: John Ryan at December 4, 2009 1:16 PMWe uninstalled all the games, then made an executable that was a graphic that said "Get Back To Work", and copied it to the harddrive as "sol.exe", "winmine.exe", etc., etc...
Posted by: Interociter Operator at February 16, 2010 5:54 PMBut then, we're meanies.... ;-)
Not only in the case of game as network admin or system admin we need to follow some basic security on PC as well as Security. Need to define startergy for all user where they can put their data keep centerlized shared folders on network restrict user to access / create indivisual folder share.
Posted by: Ashutosh Keskar at August 12, 2011 1:31 AMregarding windows based game, better to uninstall the game through administrator and allow user to use pc through normal user so they couldnt reinstall it.
Posted by: Ashutosh Keskar at August 12, 2011 1:34 AMThank you sir. This is very useful for my office PC.
Posted by: Parthipan at January 9, 2012 7:54 AM