How to stop office people playing a computer game?

Posted by gitterdun in Computer GamesJan 4th, 2010 | 3 responses

Upul C asked:


I want to stop people in our office playing a particular computer game which does not need to install to play. They can play the game just double clicking the .exe file. Our network is a Windows NT domain and all the client computers have Windows Xp as OS.

I want to stop this using local group policy or from any other way.
This is a small offline game. I removed them from all computers, but they have saved them in diskettes, pen drives and running them using those. This does not need to install..



3 Responses to “How to stop office people playing a computer game?”

  1. bob_geldoff19 says:
    January 8, 2010 at 4:39 am

    If the game is online just block access to the website. Otherwise you would need to lock the game down on remotely via admin – ask the IT dept thats what they are there for.(unless your IT – pun intended)

  2. shely says:
    January 9, 2010 at 10:05 pm

    try to use “PersonalFirewall”
    it’s can stop any exe file.

  3. Rose D says:
    January 12, 2010 at 5:52 am

    This is going to be tough. The easiest solution is to get management on board and have them set a policy for the office so that you don’t have to devote your time and energy to finding technical solutions. If the office policy is that gaming isn’t allowed and you get disciplined if caught doing it, that’s the best way to address the problem. barring that, a few things to try:

    Using a group policy to disable USB storage devices -

    Use software restrictions to prevent the game from running if it’s in a certain path:

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