Microsoft has hidden a few applications from the add/remove Windows Components Wizard that can be found within the Add or Remove Programs area. You may want to remove programs such as games and other components that are sometimes hidden from you. If you’re in a corporate environment you may want to remove the default games from your employees computers. Here are the steps for removing games if they are currently hidden in the add/remove Windows Components Wizard. After going through these steps you can unhide any of the other components you may want to remove from your system.

Does Accessories and Utilities currently show in the add/remove Windows Components Wizard.? If yes then click on details and see if games appears. If it does then you can uncheck to remove it and then click OK.

Otherwise Modify the following file – c:\winnt\inf\sysoc.inf

Now Accessories and Utilities should show in the Windows Components Wizard.

You can now select details and remove games!

You should not be able to run the following game files now:
C:\WINNT\System32\freecell.exe
C:\WINNT\System32\sol.exe
C:\WINNT\System32\winmine.exe
C:\Program Files\Windows NT\Pinball\PINBALL.EXE

Note: there maybe copies of these files located in the following directory:
C:\WINNT\system32\dllcache

Regards, Jared Blake