[windows2000] Re: Internet Only PC
- From: "Martin, Eddie" <EMartin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 10:31:52 -0400
Firefox works fine with Hotmail. I just tested it. If it works for hotmail
it should work for everything else. I have tested it in Yahoo as well with
no problems.
Eddie Martin
Bridgecom IT
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From: Greg Reese [mailto:GReese@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 10:15 AM
To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [windows2000] Re: Internet Only PC
good question. I have not figured that out myself. I was going to clean it
up and see if I could get those things back on there myself.
It stinks. If you lock down IE too far it quits working.
I like Jim's idea of Firefox but I wonder if it will work with Hotmail and
msn mail. I will have to look into that.
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From: windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bill Beckett
Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 10:01 AM
To: 'windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: [windows2000] Re: Internet Only PC
How are they installing things if it is locked down and they have no write
capabilities?
-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Reese [mailto:GReese@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 9:51 AM
To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [windows2000] Internet Only PC
My company runs Senior housing. Independent living apartments, assisted
living, nursing homes, that sort of thing.
A couple years ago, it was decided to offer high speed internet in our
resident libraries. My solution at the time was to put in a Wyse terminal
running Windows CE and the CE version of IE. Everybody complained because
they couldn't access their Hotmail account or Yahoo mail etc.
So I put in a Windows 2000 workstation with no cd and no floppy, then locked
it down as tight as I could, set IE as the shell and left it.
I have continued to get complaints about it. They still have trouble
accessing various types of webmail and they get errors instead of popups.
The video went bad on one of them and I have it in my office. The thing is
full of viruses, they somehow managed to install the yahoo toolbar, cool
websearch and a few others. Kids and grandkids get ahold of this thing too,
I don't think it's all our residents. I thought I had it locked down pretty
tight for the sole purpose of keeping this from happening. It won't load
plugins or Active X so I am not sure how this stuff got on there.
It's a real pain in the rear for me from a support standpoint. You think
users are bad, try explaining the internet to a senior citizen sometime.
I was thinking of maybe a light install of Linux or something to straighten
this out. But I want their web surfing to be as easy as possible which
means they should probably stick with IE.
Does anyone else have to support something like this? I don't seem to have
mine quite right and would like some ideas to make it better.
Thanks!
Greg
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