How to uninstall solitare, pinball, minesweep, hearts from W2K OS

[BDeasley]

what's the best way to uninstall these games from a Win2k
desktop.

 

[Kevin Christian [MSFT]]

Go into Add/Remove programs in Control Panel. Then select Windows
Components, games.

 

[Gary Smith]

Go into Add/Remove programs in Control Panel. Then select Windows
Components, games.

In order to make that work in a standard Win2K installation, you'll first
have to unhide the entries for the games. Locate the file sysoc.inf
(probably in C:\WINNT\inf) and open it in Notepad or your favorite text
editor. In the [Components] section you'll see a group of lines something
like this:

Games=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,games.inf,HIDE,7
AccessUtil=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,accessor.inf,HIDE,7
CommApps=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,communic.inf,HIDE,7
media_clips=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,mmopt.inf,HIDE,7
MultiM=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,multimed.inf,HIDE,7
AccessOpt=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,optional.inf,HIDE,7
Pinball=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,pinball.inf,HIDE,7
MSWordPad=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,wordpad.inf,HIDE,7

Delete the word "hide" from each entry you wish to reveal. Do NOT delete
the commas! The result should look like this:

Games=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,games.inf,,7
AccessUtil=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,accessor.inf,,7
CommApps=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,communic.inf,,7
media_clips=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,mmopt.inf,,7
MultiM=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,multimed.inf,,7
AccessOpt=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,optional.inf,,7
Pinball=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,pinball.inf,,7
MSWordPad=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,wordpad.inf,,7

Save the edited file and then go ahead with Add/Remove Programs.

 

[gls432]

-----Original Message-----

Go into Add/Remove programs in Control Panel. Then select Windows
Components, games.

In order to make that work in a standard Win2K installation, you'll first
have to unhide the entries for the games. Locate the file sysoc.inf
(probably in C:\WINNT\inf) and open it in Notepad or your favorite text
editor. In the [Components] section you'll see a group of lines something
like this:

Games=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,games.inf,HIDE,7
AccessUtil=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,accessor.inf,HIDE,7
CommApps=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,communic.inf,HIDE,7
media_clips=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,mmopt.inf,HIDE,7
MultiM=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,multimed.inf,HIDE,7
AccessOpt=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,optional.inf,HIDE,7
Pinball=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,pinball.inf,HIDE,7
MSWordPad=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,wordpad.inf,HIDE,7

Delete the word "hide" from each entry you wish to reveal. Do NOT delete
the commas! The result should look like this:

Games=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,games.inf,,7
AccessUtil=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,accessor.inf,,7
CommApps=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,communic.inf,,7
media_clips=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,mmopt.inf,,7
MultiM=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,multimed.inf,,7
AccessOpt=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,optional.inf,,7
Pinball=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,pinball.inf,,7
MSWordPad=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,wordpad.inf,,7

Save the edited file and then go ahead with Add/Remove Programs.

--
Gary L. Smith (e-mail address removed)
Columbus, Ohio
.
Gary thanks so much for the info this is a quick fix to a

growing issue again thank you.