Hi TX Techie,
You're welcome. Glad that helps!
--
Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
Jimmy S.
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
Visit my MSN Zone.com and Gaming Help Site:
http://mvps.org/nibblesnbits
MS Games Help and Support Center:
http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
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TX Techie Wrote:
=================
| Thank you, Jimmy! I searched through the newsgroup, but only found
| references to uninstall the XP Games from the GUI. I thought I might have to
| delete each one manually - you saved me some time with this script.
|
| Thank you!
|
| TX Techie
|
|
| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|
|| Hi TX Techie,
||
|| Here's script from a past thread in this newsgroup on the topic:
||
|| REM Delete games from workstations.
|| If exist "c:\winnt\system32\dllcache\winmine.exe"
|| del "c:\winnt\system32\dllcache\winmine.exe"
|| If exist "C:\winnt\system32\winmine.exe"
|| del "C:\winnt\system32\winmine.exe"
|| If exist "C:\winnt\system32\dllcache\sol.exe"
|| del "C:\winnt\system32\dllcache\sol.exe"
|| If exist "C:\winnt\system32\sol.exe" del "C:\winnt\system32
|| \sol.exe"
|| If exist "C:\winnt\system32\dllcache\freecell.exe"
|| del "C:\winnt\system32\dllcache\freecell.exe"
|| If exist "C:\winnt\system32\freecell.exe"
|| del "C:\winnt\system32\freecell.exe"
|| If exist "C:\winnt\system32\dllcache\pinball.exe"
|| del "C:\winnt\system32\dllcache\pinball.exe"
|| del /Q "c:\program files\windows nt\pinball\*.*"
|| del /Q "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start
|| Menu\Programs\Games\*.*"
|| If exist "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users.WINNT\Start
|| Menu\Programs\Games" RD /Q "C:\Documents and Settings\All
|| Users.WINNT\Start Menu\Programs\Games"
|| del /Q "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users.WINNT\Start
|| Menu\Programs\Games"
|| If exist "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users.WINNT\Start
|| Menu\Programs\Games" RD /Q "C:\Documents and Settings\All
|| Users.WINNT\Start Menu\Programs\Games"
|| pause
||
||
|| If exist "C:\Program Files\Windows NT\Pinball\PINBALL.EXE"
|| del "C:\Program Files\Windows NT\Pinball\PINBALL.EXE"
|| If exist "%SystemRoot%\System32\sol.exe" del "%SystemRoot%
|| \System32\sol.exe"
|| If exist "%SystemRoot%\System32\freecell.exe" del "%
|| SystemRoot%\System32\freecell.exe"
|| If exist "%SystemRoot%\System32\mshearts.exe" del "%
|| SystemRoot%\System32\mshearts.exe"
|| If exist "C:\Program Files\MSN Gaming
|| Zone\Windows\bckgzm.exe" del "C:\Program Files\MSN Gaming
|| Zone\Windows\bckgzm.exe"
|| If exist "C:\Program Files\MSN Gaming
|| Zone\Windows\chkrzm.exe" del "C:\Program Files\MSN Gaming
|| Zone\Windows\chkrzm.exe"
|| If exist "C:\Program Files\MSN Gaming
|| Zone\Windows\hrtzzm.exe" del "C:\Program Files\MSN Gaming
|| Zone\Windows\hrtzzm.exe"
|| If exist "C:\Program Files\MSN Gaming
|| Zone\Windows\Rvsezm.exe" del "C:\Program Files\MSN Gaming
|| Zone\Windows\Rvsezm.exe"
|| If exist "C:\Program Files\MSN Gaming
|| Zone\Windows\shvlzm.exe" del "C:\Program Files\MSN Gaming
|| Zone\Windows\shvlzm.exe"
|| If exist "%SystemRoot%\System32\spider.exe" del "%
|| SystemRoot%\System32\spider.exe"
|| If exist "C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\MSHEARTS.EXE"
|| del "C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\MSHEARTS.EXE"
|| If exist "C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\SPIDER.EXE"
|| del "C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\SPIDER.EXE"
||
||
||
|| --
|| Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
|| Jimmy S.
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
||
|| Visit my MSN Zone.com and Gaming Help Site:
http://mvps.org/nibblesnbits
|| MS Games Help and Support Center:
http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
|| My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
|| _________________________________________________________
||
||
||
||
|| TX Techie Wrote:
|| =================
||| We deploy new PCs or redeployments via a Ghost Image of WinXP Pro SP1 and
||| then apply another CD with several automated scripts to apply regional
||| customizations and installations. One of the latest requests of me is to
||| uninstall the XP Games from this Ghost Image (I am unable to modify the Ghost
||| Image itself - another group manages the Image).
|||
||| The environment involves ~ 3,000 PCs. All are a member of a Win 2003 Server
||| Domain and AD; some users have admin rights and almost all of them have
||| Internet access.
|||
||| TX Techie
|||
|||
||| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|||
|||| Hi TX Techie,
||||
|||| What type of environment are you working in, ie:
|||| How many computers?
|||| Are they on a domain?
|||| Are they using Active Directory?
|||| Do the users have admin rights?
|||| Do the users have internet access?
||||
|||| --
|||| Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
|||| Jimmy S.
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
||||
|||| Visit my MSN Zone.com and Gaming Help Site:
http://mvps.org/nibblesnbits
|||| MS Games Help and Support Center:
http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
|||| My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
|||| _________________________________________________________
||||
|||| TX Techie Wrote:
|||| =================
||||| Is there a way to a uninstall the Windows XP Games quietly (without user
||||| intervention) either via a command script (.cmd batch file) or a VBScript
||||| file?
|||||
||||| Thanks,
|||||
||||| TX Techie
