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Blake Kaos
How can I get rid of the games that came with Vista Home Premium (e.g.
Solitaire etc) and save some online real estate?
Solitaire etc) and save some online real estate?
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Hobbes
control panel _ Programs and Features_Turn Windows features on or off
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Mike Hall - MVP
Blake Kaos said:
Removing the games will make almost no perceptible difference..
Go to Programs and Features in Control Panel, then select the 'Turn Windows
features on and off'..
Then scroll down to 'Games' and uncheck as desired..
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Blake Kaos
Thanks, Mike.
I suspect your suggested solution would leave the games on my PC, but simply
make them inaccessible to me. I was thinking more on the lines of deleting
them altogether, to free up some disk space. Is that possible / worthwhile?
Thanks again.
I suspect your suggested solution would leave the games on my PC, but simply
make them inaccessible to me. I was thinking more on the lines of deleting
them altogether, to free up some disk space. Is that possible / worthwhile?
Thanks again.
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Nonny
Blake Kaos said:
Since you seem obsessed with gaining space... go for it. You'll get
back about 20K of space.
Delete the folder "Microsoft Games" in the Program Files folder.
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Colin Barnhorst
It will just hide them. If you are getting that pressed for hard drive
space, what general solutions have you looked at? Like an additional drive?
What is the capacity of the C: drive now?
space, what general solutions have you looked at? Like an additional drive?
What is the capacity of the C: drive now?
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Sinner
Colin Barnhorst said:
Did you ever stop to think that this may just be about housekeeping? Do you
still have every newspaper or magazine that has ever entered your home? If
you're not using them, just get rid of them.
I don't use messenger, movie maker, paint, most of the wallpapers and
cursors, media center, games, etc., but MS gives me no way to safely turn
them off, let alone delete them.
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SG
Blake Kaos said:
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/help/1e62706b-ef53-4ecd-a217-0e7bcf82009b1033.mspx
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All the best,
SG
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Colin Barnhorst
Yes, hopefully we all do housekeeping. But if trying to save hard drive
space is in play, the OP is looking at a drop in the ocean.
space is in play, the OP is looking at a drop in the ocean.
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Sinner
Colin Barnhorst said:
Even so, it's his computer and he should have the right to be as nit-picky
as he wants. MS can have no valid reason not to allow the removal of
unwanted portions of their product.
It's too bad they didn't retain the Win95 model and just continued to refine
the security issues. Sure, we can install other packages, but we can't
remove those MS products we don't want.
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Mike Hall - MVP
Sinner said:
I think that you will find that games are not obviously removable from
Ubuntu either..
By removing the features in Windows, that removes the icons in the start
menu. If the knowledge that some code still exists for the Solitaire game or
any of the others causes grief, then help for that condition is beyond the
scope of a Windows technical newsgroup..
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Sinner
Mike Hall - MVP said:
Who cares? I've never even seen Ubuntu.
It isn't about the games, even though the changes they made to Solitaire and
Hearts made them horribly slow, it's about corporations telling me what
hoops I have to jump through and how much I have to pay for the exercise.
There are programs within Vista that are intrusive, pervasive and downright
mean, and I don't have the right to remove them.
All I want from MS is an operating system. I can populate my computer with
the applications I choose, when I want or need them.
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Hobbes
Sinner said:
You would need to create your own OS to get exactly and only what you want.
Vista is for the general public with an enormous amount of variation in what
is "wanted".
I cannot think of a single product where the customer dictates every aspect
of its creation and implementation.
If companies obeyed every customer whim, there wouln't be a single
profitable company in the world...therefore companies and their products
would cease to exist.
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Mike Hall - MVP
Sinner said:
The games in Windows are none of what you claim, and the controlling card
file supplies the cards for ALL of the card games which are installed. The
sum total of the files witch make up the default games is less tan the space
taken up by the sum of text files which get installed along with most
applications..
From memory, the games have been seen in all Windows editions, certainly
from Windows 3, and were included originally as a fun way to learn the art
of of the double click and drag 'n drop..
Windows is put together for all levels of users, and Linux variants are
following the same path. You may well be in a minority, and as you already
know, the few sometimes have to be sacrificed for the many..
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Nonny
Mike Hall - MVP said:
And for YEARS (and this might still be the case), Solitaire was the
most used program on all Windows computers.
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Gordon
Nonny said:
But not after Minesweeper's acquired sound effects in Vista.. <VBG>
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Charlie Tame
Sinner said:
Well that is basically what Debian Linux is, and Ubuntu is Debian with
more stuff in it by default.
The "Core" of Debian is like MS-DOS, it has been given a GUI kinds like
Windows 3.1 was designed that runs "On top" if you like and then if you
want the extra GFX and fancy stuff you can add them yourself to Debian
or just get Ubuntu where someone else has done that for you.
By the way (Before I get jumped all over) technically this explanation
is not really accurate, but if as you say you never saw Ubuntu it's just
a simple way to describe what you would see,
But the same applies to some extent, you will always get some stuff you
really never use, and you probably could remove some of that safely,
however the applications (media players, browsers etc) are not
irrevocably "Integrated" with the OS as they are in Windows.
BUT, you will still get users who want everything, and install 20
different things to do the same job, and then yes, they break the system
just as they would break Windows.
This is not because of the disk space used, which is minimal usually, it
is because when 20 things are running the system slows down, drivers
maybe conflict and so on.
But what you describe is essentially the idea behind Unix / Linux. Bare
essential that you add to at will.
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norm
Mike said:
They aren't? Applications/add-remove/games, uncheck the game(s) to
remove, click apply. (This method is from a default installation of ubuntu).
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Colin Barnhorst
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there is Mahjong Titans.
A couple of my friends at Redmond tell me that the new productivity virus
there is Mahjong Titans.
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norm
You can move and run the xp version of solitaire on vista.Sinner said:
http://www.thepcspy.com/read/running_xps_solitaire_in_vista
The site also states that one should be able to move and run ALL the xp
games in the same manner. I have only done so with solitaire (for my
wife - no experience on moving any others).