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Disable Games via Group Policy

Hi All,

How do I create a group policy to disable windows installed games on win7, Vista & xp workstations.

Thank you in advance

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Mike Kline

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manny_lenis

Is this a domain enviroment?

Reyesrj

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We are in a domain enviroment. Mike's suggestion worked on win7, I have not seen a vista machine yet. I'm sure it works on vista too. I need help for the XP mahcines. Most workstations on the domain is running XP.

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bit_rot

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Reyesrj

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Thanks

I added "zClientm.exe" in the "Don't run specified Windows application" rule list. However it still runs. zClientm.exe is for internet games such as internet hearts and internet Backgammon. Does anyone know how to block this. We have a firewall that will block internet games but the pre-installed windows internet games are not blocked. These games are only in XP.

Reyesrj

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Thanks all,
I used both suggestions to block. In the "Don't run specified Windows application" rule list this is what I entered:
chess.exe
freecell.exe
hearts.exe
SpiderSolitaire.exe
solitaire.exe
purblePlaces.exe
bckgzm.exe
chkrzm.exe
shvlzm.exe
Mahjong.exe
MineSweeper.exe
C:\Program Files\Windows NT\Pinball\PINBALL.EXE
C:\Program Files\MSN Gaming Zone

This covered everything.

bit_rot

Glad that worked out for you! Keep that in your bag of tricks now!

We had some Intel onboard video on some of our machines, and users would accidentally hit ctrl alt and an arrow key which was a hot key combo for rotating the screen. I was able to trace back to the specific intel application and use Software restriction policies to kill it off and eliminate all the annoying tickets. :)

Marwa Kenawy

it's not working for me
clients still running games on their computers

Albert Widjaja

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