If you choose to use Windows Disk Protection to remove changes, any changes made by shared users when they are logged on to the computer are removed when the computer is restarted. User Restrictions and Settings — The user restrictions and settings can help to enhance and simplify the user experience.
Restrict user access to programs, settings, Start menu items, and options in Windows. You can also lock shared user accounts to prevent changes from being retained from one session to the next.
User Account Manager — Create and delete user accounts. You can use Windows SteadyState to create user accounts on alternative drives that will retain user data and settings even when Windows Disk Protection is turned on. You can also import and export user settings from one computer to another—saving valuable time and resources. Schedule Software Updates — Update your shared computer with the latest software and security updates when it is convenient for you and your shared users.
The hardware requirements are the same as for Windows XP and Windows Vista, so any computer that runs these operating systems well should also be able to run Windows SteadyState. With the kiosks only being used to browse one website, you really do not need the complexity of securing Windows when there are some prebuilt solutions that you can look at.
Its totally free and offers many specific restrictions as well as locking down the HD so that it is restored to a specific, preconfigured state at each restart. For example, if a user manages to infect the machine with malware, a restart will clear it up immediately. THere are way too many options to mention here, but SS will do everything you mentioned in your question and more.
Download it and try it out. Its a very small download and is very easy to configure and use. I did a job like this for a Customer a few years ago. No keyboard was present on this unit, so the user couldn't exit full screen mode. If I had to do this today, I'd start looking around for kiosk extensions for Firefox or "shells" for Internet Explorer as a first step. To prevent memory leaks in the browser from taking the unit down I used a screensaver to logoff the computer after an inactivity timeout, whereupon it auto logged-on again.
I also scheduled a nightly reboot to keep the background processes from leaking away memory. On the "access only certain web site" front: You might be able to get away with pointing the DNS on the PC to a restrictive DNS server that only served the zones for sites you wanted to enable access to. You could use some "netnanny" type filtering software on the PC, but I have no experience with that to speak to. Finally, you could configure the PC to use a proxy server either hosted locally on the PC, or centrally on the 'net and filter requests that way.
That old kiosk job was really fun, in part, because the kiosk itself had no Internet connectivity! You could even load updates to the content on the kiosk from USB memory stick or CD with a proper authentication file on the media.
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Hi, I was wondering if there is a way to lock the wallpaper image on windows xp home edition? I know how to do it for xp pro, but since I don't have it, that doesn't help me.
I heard you can do it through editing the registry but I couldn't figure out which entry it was.
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