XP - Internet access only

JJJJNR

Hi I'm in the process of setting up a couple of XP machines for our company internet cafe I've done it before but using steady state which isn't available anymore.

Is there anyway to give people access to IE only using gpedit ? also without using IE in kiosk mode.

homer911

Perhaps a dumb suggestion, but would it be possible to use Windows Family Safety? You can restrict access to just specified applications on the PC (and control the sites visitable..)

JJJJNR

Never heard of it, I'd prefer if it was a case of IE launching once the machine was powered on, and logged in, with restricted access to the start menu etc.

Overheal

Linux?

Capt'n Midnight

Overheal wrote: »

Linux?

naughty.

OP wanted IE access.

http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/page/Main_Page - if you want a basic version of IE on a linux box :pac: (but handy if you want to see what a web page looks like in various flavours of IE )



It used to be possible to select other apps as the windows shell, perhaps use IE ?

BUT if you can get into IE you can browse to the appropiate folder and click on and run things like cmd.exe or any other app , unless you have gone to extra lengths too

Overheal

BN

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

naughty.

OP wanted IE access.

I know I know but this would be one of those times when people are really asking to do something the software/environment is really not designed to do.

You could also try Deep Freeze: http://www.faronics.com/enterprise/deep-freeze/ Not terribly expensive either if just for a few lounge machines. It's incorporated into my company's PC shelf display software, to stop teenagers from acting the maggot, like setting the home page on the ipads to http://get.adobe.com/reader or setting up new passwords on the windows machines.

Fysh

Microsoft's current recommendation for SteadyState is in the form of a wagonload of instructions in this document (51 pages!).

I still have a copy of the SteadyState installation files and am happy to upload them to somewhere like sendspace if the OP wants, but in the absence of a verifiable checksum from the original installer I can understand any reluctance to trust Someone Off The Internet for such things.

Kinetic^

http://www.fogproject.org/

Probably overkill but will certainly work.

Capt'n Midnight

Fysh wrote:

I still have a copy of the SteadyState installation files and am happy to upload them to somewhere like sendspace if the OP wants, but in the absence of a verifiable checksum from the original installer I can understand any reluctance to trust Someone Off The Internet for such things.

a google of the checksum might reveal that the file is already in a trusted location , maybe