Ignore my previous message, as I somehow missed the fact that there's no CD-ROM drive in the machines. Drew _____ From: windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Andrew S Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 9:58 AM To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [windows2000] Re: Internet Only PC The only thing that I would suggest is to continue to lock it down as much as possible - plus, create a ghost image of the machine, keep it on CD. Once a week or whenever needed, anyone can throw the CD in the drive, and it restores the image to the machine, and all is well again. Drew _____ 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