[windows2000] Re: Internet Only PC
- From: "Jim Kenzig http://thin.net" <jimkenz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 09:57:28 -0400
Mozilla should work fine for them Greg. When they are ready to be replaced
have a look at the NetX protected units that have disk on chip.
http://www.netxinc.com/product_flexprotectpc.asp
<http://www.netxinc.com/product_flexprotectpc.asp> Also you could look into
putting a product like Goback onto them that resets the settings back to
defaults if it gets screwed up. This will cut down drastically on your
support calls.
-----Original Message-----
From: windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Greg Reese
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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