[WEB4LIB] PWB, SetBrowser, and IE

[Vermeersch, Scott M.]

>From my experience with Windows 2000 and PWB:

You can rename Iexplore.exe to Iexplore.bak, wait for Windows to recreate Iexplore.exe and delete Iexplore.bak (leaving Iexplore.exe), Windows will be unable to find IE because it is looking for Iexplore.bak not Iexplore.exe.

If you are using NTFS, you can also set security to deny read and execute.

The ultimate, if PWB is the only thing running on the computer, is to run PWB as the Windows shell, this does away with the Desktop and Start menu.

For our OPAC and research terminals, we are running PWB as the published application on a Citrix server using WYSE Winterms. Three years, no problems.

Scott Vermeersch
Computer Systems Analyst
Mayo Medical Library



-----Original Message-----
From: Susan Sloan [mailto:ssloan at bocalibrary.org] 
Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 1:17 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: [WEB4LIB] PWB, SetBrowser, and IE


We are using Public Web Browser and IE 5.5 SP2 on Windows 2000 machines. However, we've been seeing that patrons can get out of PWB and into straight IE. We now use the SetBrowser utility, but patrons still get around that. Someone from another listserv recommended removing or renaming the iexplore.exe file (works in Win 9.x), but in W2k the file simply reappears/replicates itself no matter what I do. Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Susan Sloan
Boca Raton Public Library