Using XP in Kiosk Mode
This seems like a very specific question so I'm not sure which forum to put it in since none of them quite seem to fit the criteria. My apologies in advance if this is the wrong place!
I've been working for a couple days to set up a Windows XP Professional (SP3) machine to be a kiosk computer. After a great deal of digging, I found and downloaded SteadyState 2.5 - which seems to be essentially discontinued -and some KB articles on how
to modify the registry so the computer will run in Kiosk mode and open a browser to a specific URL. However, after following these steps and configuring SteadyState as needed, when I log in as the standard user or the admin user I get a blank screen. Nothing
ever loads even though I've used the exact syntax given in the KB article for the Shell key in the registry.
Does this not work any longer? Is there a better way to do it? It seems that "iexplore -k www.urlhere.com" is not working as intended. I've also tried "iexplore.exe -k www.urlhere.com" just to be safe and the result is the same. Any help would be greatly
appreciated!
August 9th, 2011 4:49pm
Hi,
You can post the thread to Windows XP SP3 forum:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/itproxpsp/threads
Meanwhile the "-k" should still work. For example:
"C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe" -k
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August 11th, 2011 3:58am


