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<\/a><\/p>\nClick on Start (note that my start button says \u201cTeamTutorials\u201d) select Settings and click on Control Panel. <\/p>\n
If you control panel looks like this, click on \u201cSwitch To Classic View\u201d to get the old style control panel. If you already have the old control panel, continue on.<\/p>\n Double Click on User Accounts.<\/p>\n Select \u201cCreate a New Account\u201d from the window that pops up. <\/p>\n The first window that pops up will want you to name the user. I am going to call my user \u201ckioskuser\u201d. This will allow me to remember what that user is for if I do other things on this machine as well. Once you have typed in the name for your user, click on next to continue.<\/p>\n Next, it wants you to pick the type of account the user will have. Go ahead and give them administrator access. We are going to disable things that will allow them to change it anyway, so it won\u2019t be a big deal. Once you check the Computer Administrator option, click on Create Account.<\/p>\n Windows will now take us back to our user screen. You will now see the user we just created. Click on the users name to open the option for that user.<\/p>\n This window will pop up. Click on \u201cChange the Password\u201d to set the new password for the user. You may also want to make sure that any other accounts on the computer are password protected to prevent someone from using those accounts easily.<\/p>\n Pick a password for your user that you will be able to remember. Type the password in the top box and the second box. You can type a reminder of the password in the hint box if you wish. Click on Change Password to continue on once you are done inserting data into the fields. You can now close the user window but keep the control panel window open and select the System icon. We are now going to turn off error reporting, stand-by, hibernation, and some other features. <\/p>\n The above window will pop up. Click on the advanced tab.<\/p>\n This tab should look like above. Click on the error reporting button on the bottom. Check the radial button that says disable error reporting. Click on OK and you should now be back to the System properties under the advanced tab. Click on the settings button under the \u201cStartup and Recovery\u201d section.<\/p>\n Make the window that appears look like the one pictured above (by checking and un-checking boxes and changing settings.) Once you are done, click on ok. You are now back to our system settings. Click on the Remote tab at the top of the window.<\/p>\n Make sure that the \u201cAllow Remote Assistance Invitations to be sent from this computer\u201d option is unchecked. <\/p>\n Now select the Automatic Updates tab and make sure the \u201cTurn Off Automatic Updates\u201d option is selected. We are now done with system settings. Now, lets log off of our current setup and log on with our new user that we have created. This will give us a new desktop with no icons, and allow us to make our changes to the registry that are user specific. [HKEY_CURRENT_USER]. Once logged in as \u201ckioskuser\u201d we need to set the background, screensaver, and power settings to the options we want to have enabled. We will now turn off hibernation. <\/p>\n Click on Start->Settings->Control Panel. Double-click on display. (Alternatively, you could right-click on the desktop and select properties from the drop-down menu). In these menus are all the option for how your desktop looks. You can set up all these options however you would like. There are three options within here that should be done though.<\/p>\n The first one is to turn off all power management (turn off monitor, turn off hard drives, ect..). To do this select the Screen Saver tab and click on the Power button. <\/p>\n Set all three options (Turn off monitor, turn off hard disks, standby to never). Note that I have on battery options as I am on a laptop. You can ignore those settings. Now click on the advanced tab. Make your selections in the advanced window look like mine (again, ignore the laptop specific \u201cWhen I close the lid of my portable computer\u201d option). This will make it so that to shutdown all you need to do is simply press the power button once. <\/p>\n Now, click on the hibernation tab and ensure that it is disabled. <\/p>\n Finally select the Desktop tab and click on the Customize Desktop Button<\/p>\n Uncheck all icons except internet explorer. This will remove all icons from the desktop.<\/p>\n Click on start and select run.<\/p>\n Type in \u201ccontrol userpasswords2\u201d (without the quotes) and press enter or click OK.<\/p>\n Select kioskuser and then uncheck the checkbox and click apply. <\/p>\n Type in your password for kioskuser twice and click OK. If the window goes away with no errors, all is ok. Close the user(s) window(s). Now we need to modify the registry to prevent users from moving the task bar, right-clicking on the taskbar, right-clicking on the desktop, and disable the Windows logo keys. <\/p>\n Click on start and select run.<\/p>\n Type in regedit and press enter.<\/p>\n To disable windows logo keys: In the right pane, right-click and select New and then click on Binary Value. Name the value \u201cScancode Map\u201d without the quotes. <\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
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