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at my work, i was given the assignment of getting rid of the Solitaire game in Windows 2000 Professional. i am not their tech person but since i know quite a lot about pc's, i was asked that. i've tried the following that did not give results:
1) Add/Remove Windows Components. The choice for the games is not there! I tried bringing the option over from my own W2k pc and that didn't work.
2) Deleted the sol.exe file and everything referring to it. It just reappears when you search for it.
3) Got rid of the shortcut so they wouldn't find it, but they searched for sol and sound it.
4) Got rid of the Run option in Start Menu and delete all instances of sol.exe, emptied the cache of previous run files, and hid the sol.exe file. Then in the search options and folderddisplay options I unchecked Display hidden files. That worked for a while as noone in there knows how to find it. However, once the PC was restarted, the search was able to find the sol.exe since it wasn't hiddne anymore. I'm thinking of getting rid of the search option as well but how much can I hide it before some curious little shit finds it again?
Is there another way of removing Solitaire without reinstalling or formatting? (it's the server of the store) I didn't know Microsuck was so persistant in its games!
1) Add/Remove Windows Components. The choice for the games is not there! I tried bringing the option over from my own W2k pc and that didn't work.
2) Deleted the sol.exe file and everything referring to it. It just reappears when you search for it.
3) Got rid of the shortcut so they wouldn't find it, but they searched for sol and sound it.
4) Got rid of the Run option in Start Menu and delete all instances of sol.exe, emptied the cache of previous run files, and hid the sol.exe file. Then in the search options and folderddisplay options I unchecked Display hidden files. That worked for a while as noone in there knows how to find it. However, once the PC was restarted, the search was able to find the sol.exe since it wasn't hiddne anymore. I'm thinking of getting rid of the search option as well but how much can I hide it before some curious little shit finds it again?
Is there another way of removing Solitaire without reinstalling or formatting? (it's the server of the store) I didn't know Microsuck was so persistant in its games!