group policy disable microsoft games

[vttech]

is there a group policy that can disable microsoft games that come installed on windows 2000/XP?

If so how do I set it up??

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[markdmac]

Sort of. There is a GPO for "Don't Run Specified Applications" and you can add SOL.EXE, Freecell.exe etc to that.

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[vttech]

Thanks Mark, But I have to find a way to do it under the computer account rather than the user account? any Ideas

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[markdmac]

Why? Apply that policy to all users at the domain level an any user logging in will be restricted.

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[vttech]

I would apply it at the domain level to certain computers because that is the set management wants...

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[markdmac]

Right, but the computers won't be launching the applications. The users will.

You can do what you want by applying this as I say but at the local machine policy. It will then only affect users logging into specific machines, however this is an administrative nightmare as you would be doing the same steps over and over on each machine.

Better to identify the group of users you wish to prevent from doing this and create a user group for them and apply the domain policy to that group only.

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