Internet Explorer

[user]

Sorry if this is posted in the wrong group..

I'm looking for a way to control the behaviour of a machine and IE within
it.

Situation is this:

We have some Win 2000 computers set up for the public to use just for the
Internet. Currently they are subject to a hard lockdown via GP to stop
people messing.
We have a Home page stored on the local machine which gives the user a
'Welcome' screen and various options in four languages on how to use the
machines etc. with various links localised for their language google.de,
google.fr, google.com etc etc.

What I like to do is this:
1. Stop people from closing Internet Explorer down.
2. Get IE to go back to its Home page after a set period of inactivity so it
is ready for the next user with the 'Welcome' screen up. I'm guessing that
the best way to do this would be somehow via Scheduled Tasks?

Any help and suggestion would be greatly appreciated!

Best regards,
Jimbo

 

[Jerold Schulman]

Sorry if this is posted in the wrong group..

I'm looking for a way to control the behaviour of a machine and IE within
it.

Situation is this:

We have some Win 2000 computers set up for the public to use just for the
Internet. Currently they are subject to a hard lockdown via GP to stop
people messing.
We have a Home page stored on the local machine which gives the user a
'Welcome' screen and various options in four languages on how to use the
machines etc. with various links localised for their language google.de,
google.fr, google.com etc etc.

What I like to do is this:
1. Stop people from closing Internet Explorer down.
2. Get IE to go back to its Home page after a set period of inactivity so it
is ready for the next user with the 'Welcome' screen up. I'm guessing that
the best way to do this would be somehow via Scheduled Tasks?

Any help and suggestion would be greatly appreciated!

Best regards,
Jimbo

To redirect back to your Welcome page after 1 minute of inactivity, assuming your Welcome page is http://welcome.mydomain.com

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="60;url=http://welcome.mydomain.com/">

Add this to every page.

 

[Jerold Schulman]

Sorry if this is posted in the wrong group..

I'm looking for a way to control the behaviour of a machine and IE within
it.

Situation is this:

We have some Win 2000 computers set up for the public to use just for the
Internet. Currently they are subject to a hard lockdown via GP to stop
people messing.
We have a Home page stored on the local machine which gives the user a
'Welcome' screen and various options in four languages on how to use the
machines etc. with various links localised for their language google.de,
google.fr, google.com etc etc.

What I like to do is this:
1. Stop people from closing Internet Explorer down.
2. Get IE to go back to its Home page after a set period of inactivity so it
is ready for the next user with the 'Welcome' screen up. I'm guessing that
the best way to do this would be somehow via Scheduled Tasks?

Any help and suggestion would be greatly appreciated!

Best regards,
Jimbo

To redirect back to your Welcome page after 1 minute of inactivity, assuming your Welcome page is http://welcome.mydomain.com

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="60;url=http://welcome.mydomain.com/">

Add this to every page.

 

[user]

Thanks for the reply but that would only work on the pages I control. If a
user navigated out to Google and left it on that page, thats where it would
stay. I would like the machine to wait a specified idle time, say 15
minutes, then go to the Home page even if Google (or any other webpage) is
up.

 

[Ken B]

Little bit of a hokey setup, but this could get it to work:

Set up the screensaver as logoff.scr, activating after 15 minutes
Enable auto-admin log on
Place a shortcut to iexplore.exe in the Startup group

hth... Ken

 

[Jim Dodge]

We could not find a way to do what you wanted with any standard tools. But
we started using a product called Public Web Browser over two years ago to
do what you need. You can find it here
http://www.teamsoftwaresolutions.com/. It is only $100/year for a site
license.

 

[user]

Cool!

We could not find a way to do what you wanted with any standard tools.
But we started using a product called Public Web Browser over two years
ago to do what you need. You can find it here
http://www.teamsoftwaresolutions.com/. It is only $100/year for a site
license.