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State-Sponsored Solitaire?
jefu writes "According to this story the state of North Carolina may be considering banning solitaire on state owned machines. It seems that state workers are now perceived as having replaced leaning on brooms with playing solitaire or minesweeper. The story provides coverage of both sides of the issue, noting that playing solitaire (or other games) may provide workers with a way to burn off some stress, but that this kind of activity is likely to be perceived as time wasting. My favorite bit (especially as April 15th draws ever closer) is where the author notes that fifty percent of the time an IRS employee is on the computer they are playing games, shopping online or gambling."
It all boils down to incompitent admins. Simple to remove all games from Windows systems. The process takes a few minutes when the machine is delivered. One nice thing about Windows Group Policy objects, you can enforce security policies where they can't be changed. You can also rescan machines as they log onto the network and re-apply the policy if the tech savy person manages to circumvent it.