[windows2000] Re: Internet Only PC
- From: "jalexander" <jalexander@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 05:07:34 -0800
I have not personally used it yet but I have heard wonderful things about a
small program called DeepFreeze. Basically, everytime the computer is
rebooted, it is returned to its original software configuration state
regardless of what the user did. It doesn't appear to be very expensive and I
believe you can download an evaluation version.
HTH
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To: <windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: "Greg Reese" <GReese@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 09:51:09 -0400
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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