What do you use to limit public access to your Win7 PCs? [x-post from code4lib]

[Kern Mann]

Do you have .reg and/or batch files to do you Group Policy and registry 
edits?

You can use an imaging program like CloneZilla to push images to 
machines across the network.  You could do you adjustments and updates 
on one machine, then have the others replicate them/it.

Curiously,

kern


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On 9/5/2013 8:29 AM, Melanie Hogue wrote:
>
> We use a 4 level system. Assuming you are using a web filter to 
> eliminate scary sites and some kind of reservation system to limit 
> session length which are our first and second levels, we use both 
> something like Steady State -- a product called Smart Shield, along 
> with Smart Control (management console), by Centurion, AND we severely 
> limit what the public account can do -- like no menu selections for 
> Restart or Shut Down, no items on the Start menu except what you want 
> them to use, no access to Run (cmd.exe or regedit.exe, etc.).  This is 
> easier if you use Active Directory; but if not, it can still be done 
> at each individual computer by editing Group Policy. I did some of 
> that in regedit.exe
>
> We run a mixed house, XP and Win 7; and it seems to work well on both. 
> The only downside is that making adjustments to the build and updates 
> is cumbersome; but you probably noticed that with Steady State as well.
>
> Melanie A. Hogue, Systems Librarian
>
> Chestatee Regional Library System
>
> Dawsonville, Georgia
>
> 706-344-3690 Ext. 20
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