I have recently started playing with windows steady state. And am looking to use it for the company I work for, I was under feature restrictions and found that I can restrict the internet usage. I have done so, and put in a few sites I want to be allowed but when I switch from the admin account to the limited access account it can not access the internet. But when I uncheck the "Prevent Internet Access (except Web sites below)" and go back to that same account the internet works fine. I did notice that when I have it checked, that when I put in an address such as google.com it turns it into http:///?%google.com but if I enter in www.google.com IE says that it can not connect. I am currently running steady state v2.5 with internet explorer 8, on windows XP SP3 -Kura

Hi Kura, first, pleae make sure that the computer is not using proxy to connect to the Internet as SteadyState is designed for environment without proxy server. You can try unlocking the profile and disabling all internet restrictions, then logging on as the restricted user and visiting the home page. Log off, then log on as the administrator, open the restricted user in Windows SteadyState, lock the profile and select the desired internet restrictions again. Sometimes some of the restrictions in place prevent Internet Explorer from initializing something, which ends up preventing the allowed web sites from showing. By relaxing the restrictoins and visiting the site once, Internet Explorer is able to initialize everything, so after the restrictions are enabled, the page should still be available. Sean Zhu - MSFT

Sean, Yes i have already done all of this, thinking the same. But it still doesn't work. It seems as if when I enable the option in steady state that for some reason its keeping the URL local instead of trying to push it out to the internet. But the internet does work from that profile because I can ping websites through the command line. Kura