disable all fucntionality unless otherwise specified

[justride]

Hello,

I hear Windows offers policies to enable/disable various setting.

I have a machine, that will act like a kiosk, and I need it to boot,login manually and disable everything exception for running an application at startup.
I need to disable, peripherals,cd-rom, keyboard, mouse etc.. desktop,starmenu

I would also need to be able to enter some sort of keystroke to login and resume to admin mode.

Any suggestions?

 

[Auger282]

start > run > "gpedit.msc"

group policies

 

[justride]

but I only want these setting for one user, not the administrator. isnt group policies for all users?

 

[guitarzan]

For starters, you can create an accout with "Guest" rights, and have the machine automatically log in with that account. Do a search for "TweakUI", which lets you do an autologin, as well as other lockdown tweaks. To go in as an administrator, just log off and log in with an administrator account/password.

If you're on a 2k/2k3 domain, you can use "Group Policy" to lockdown the account. If not on a domain, run "gpedit.msc" (the local Group Policy snap-in)... but this will lock things down for all accounts on the computer (I think there's a way around that, but I'm not sure).

Also, I just came across a post from biglebowski in the virus/spyware forum that looks interesting and may be of help (I haven't tried it yet);

"Microsoft Shared Computer Toolkit for Windows XP Handbook"

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/maintain/sct/scthch04.mspx

 

[geeve]

How are you going to use a keystroke to go to admin mode if you have disabled the keyboard? lol

I would physically remove the peripherals or disable in the BIOS.
Try this link for automatic login which admin can overide.

http://www.winguides.com/registry/display.php/13/

For the rest I think Auger282 has the right idea

 

[justride]

I just need to autologin as the disabled user, this account will run a application and thats it, however the admin needs to be able to intervene is needed.

 

[pansophic]

Have you looked at the Windows Embedded market? There are lots of Windows configurations designed for a Kiosk application specifically. Most run on embedded processors, but I believe that there is a branch of Bart's PE that is designed for a kiosk application on an x86 processor.


pansophic