Comments on: Group Policy Tip: Local GPOs…Do they matter?

By: Instant Housecall Magazine » Setting up a Kiosk. Reader Response.

Instant Housecall Magazine » Setting up a Kiosk. Reader Response. — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 22:14:55 +0000

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Unit1 » Blog Archive » » Setting up a Kiosk. Reader Response. — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 12:26:41 +0000

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By: majortom1981

majortom1981 — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 23:37:58 +0000

I use all grou policy with content filter from our firewall.

Basically locked down everything via gp. Only have ie on the desktop and on the start menu.

(you will have to delete everything that cant be done on gp in their profile directory)

Made it so that ie cant be closed and that ie opens up on start up.

We have a script that makes it so that if you log off it logs right back in to that same user . to log in as an admin you hold down shift then press log off and keep holding shift till the login screen comes on.

You can get rid of the ie7 search bar by a reg edit that can be given out via group policy.

I also deleted all the bad icons in ie also .

you can also use kiosk mode for ie but your website must be able to be used without the back and foward buttons.

By: ShadowAdmin

ShadowAdmin — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:48:35 +0000

It’s on my to do list but I am thinking of using Windows SteadyState.

By: NinjaAdmin

NinjaAdmin — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:12:27 +0000

I use Kioware as well we used to do the whole IE 5 in kiosk mode running inside a terminal that would only open to ie5.

It wasn’t fun.

By: anewera

anewera — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 17:18:00 +0000

I would first like to say that i enjoy your site very much. about the kiosk software, we use kioware. it is easy to deploy, just dont change any hardware on the machine. I initially tried to lock-down firefox, but it seemed to be too much work for as little as it paid off. for the experienced computer user, there are always a way to get around those road blocks (eg. calculator trick)