Have you checked in secpol.msc (system32 folder) for any local settings that might work. I am at home now, so can't check (XP Home $&*?)

Sometimes group policy doesn't overwrite local policy, I found that recently.

Hello,

Technology will not solve a social problem.


There are a couple things that you can do to force the issue of the game problem (assuming all are within the web browsers)

* A week before you implement, record the dns name of the various game sites that your people go to. Get a list of the top 10 or 20 game sites.

* Switch over your internet access to one that requires a login. This means an authenticated proxy service, or a firewall approach that requires login. Release with an official statement from HR that Internet Gaming is forbidden, and tell them about the logging, and let them know they are being watched.

* Have HR determine a firing decision on the gaming. If the people are caught a couple times at the location, then they get called in, and their seat is givien to someone new.

* Decide if your employees even NEED internet access. If they don't have a business functional need, then kill it off.

* Re-configure DNS so that the top 20 game sites your people visit all go somewhere else, such as to an internal corporate "your game site is down, and we have recorded your attempts" location.

NOTE THAT YOU will have to have some key people on board: HR, the CIO, your Boss, and others in the organization that may have the power to weaken your initiatives. It sounds to me that you are trying to change the culture of the organization, and unless you are some senior executive, you cannot do this on your own. Get things in writing, on paper, so that if you have to defend your actions, you have authorization to do so.

Christian

Sorry i wasnt specific with what games, its not any internet games, its solitare, and minesweeper, and freecell, all the windows games I want to block, they are all already blocked from the internet except for a few certain sites that they need to goto...

Ok never mind, just figured it out, was typing the whole path in the window were u add such as %systemroot%\system32\sol.exe, when all u need to put in there is just "sol.exe, freecell.exe" no need for the path...