[windows2000] Re: Internet Only PC
- From: "Nick Smith" <nick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 15:25:00 +0100
Greg,
I have a memory form the Thin list of some software someone used which
basically restored a clean version of the OS on reboot - no need to lock
it down as any changes made jsut vanished on reboot.
Will try and track it down.
Nick
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From: Greg Reese [mailto:GReese@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 28 July 2004 14:51
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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