Kiosk questions

[Mykk]

My boss would like for me to come up with a Kiosk solution for IE6 but
we would like the back and forward buttons. I would even be happy with
a normal IE 6 window that just couldn't be closed or minimized. The
goal is to make the machines only able to browse the internet. I can
accomplish this I believe by running a start up script that launches IE
right away, as long as I can make sure they can't get out of IE.

I will be disabling the alt and control buttons along with the F4 and
F11 buttons.

Does anyone have any ideas, I have been researching for a couple days
and haven't found anything that I am totally happy with and we don't
want to spend a lot of money if we can avoid it.

Thanks,

Mykk

 

[Rob ^_^]

Hi Mykk,

Download the IEAK 6 or now 7 from Microsoft as a start. It documents all of
the policy restrictions that you can apply to a vanilla MSIE.

You could also search MS for adm scripts which are used in network bootups
to configure clients. You should be able to find one for a Kiosk client.

There are also some commercial applications. Browser Bob is one that comes
to mind.

Regards.

 

[Jon Kennedy]

You can use the registry to restrict IE:

The restrictions that are available to Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;823057
More here:
http://www.winguides.com/registry/category.php/612/

How to Use Kiosk Mode in Microsoft Internet Explorer
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=154780

Or you can get a third party app like this one to do all the work for you in
the registry:
http://www.emailarms.com/products/internet_kiosk.html

Or you can go for a pure kiosk browser solution like:
http://www.simpliciti.biz/lockedbrowser.php