Beside turning them off, I want to permanently remove the ability to turn them back on, for any and all users including myself the administrator. I want to do this on several computers in my business environment, as well as several in my home. I did try to completely remove them a couple of ways.
The last attempt removed them from the Games Explorer, but when I went to check to see if the option to turn them off and on--like you note--was gone, it was not.
They would turn on and then off again like I had not deleted anything. I want to completely remove the games, so reinstall or turning back on is not possible. Now that they are there you must prevent access to the ability to configure.
Of course, a clever user could always add the games in even if they weren't installed initially As the Games are now there, I would suggest three items. Make all users except you standard users. You retain an administrative user account on each machine.
This will not hamper their usage and prevent major changes without your knowledge. When you need to service or maintenance the computers, you can right click on a menu task or app installer, select run as administrator, and supply your credentials to execute. Alternatively, you can log-on with the Administrator account.
Click the Start orb and enter gpedit. Expand the window to full screen. Select and expand User Configuration folder.
Expand Adminstrative Templates folder. Expand Control Panel folder. Select the Add or Remove Programs folder. Double-click and configure that to hide that option once you have games removed and other features that you want added. Close out. That prevents the ability to add the games back. The next item is under Start Menu and Taskbar folder. You are still in the User Configuration folder Select that and you will find Remove games link from start menu. Double-click that and configure to remove it from the Start Menu.
Close gpedit. If you must leave an account type as administrative for someone I don't know why you would , they won't know how to change these configured settings. If they do, change their account type to standard. Saturday, February 20, PM. Computer Technician. Tried it. This didn't work either. Apparently there is no way to completely remove the games and their ability to be reinstalled in Win7 Ult.
Tuesday, August 3, PM. You're out for a challenge, aren't you? You can't remove so easily what you don't like, even if the equation of games with "essential system files" may sound exaggerated, surely.
So, 1 the suggestion with the winsxs folder isn't completely wrong. If you're able to find all references to the Windows games in this mega-folder, be my guest. I'm too lazy to do such an amount of investigation. There is no "games" subfolder to delete.
If you even don't trust yourself as an administrator who could reawake the nightmares , that can't be helped. Why isn't this solution satisfying? From other posts, I know there is a fear of gaming-addicted employees which I won't deny, but why can't this be handled by user restrictions?
Step 4: Once this window finishes loading it may take a while , remove the check from the box next to Games you can also expand the tree and remove individual games if you'd like. After the process completes itself the standard Windows games will be removed from your system, earning you some extra hard-drive space and fewer distractions from work.
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