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Hi. I need to write a shell for a kiosk wich must contain only 2 or 3 applications. I need to make a simple gui with a button for each application. I've tried to make a simple autoit app with a simple gui but when one application is running the "shell" crashes frequently and windows restart it (killing the running application). Is there any way (like protected mode, running in protected memory) to run the shell as resident? Please help me

PS. I've tried with progman.exe from win2k. It does the work but it's not possible to disable the filemenu in order to prevent any user to browse and run any external program. I'd want to let the user use ONLY that 2/3 applications.

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Hi. I need to write a shell for a kiosk wich must contain only 2 or 3 applications. I need to make a simple gui with a button for each application. I've tried to make a simple autoit app with a simple gui but when one application is running the "shell" crashes frequently and windows restart it (killing the running application). Is there any way (like protected mode, running in protected memory) to run the shell as resident? Please help me

Perhaps if you post what you have tried someone will spot a problem.

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Use a linux kiosk solution.

Or dig into the administrative tasks of windows. A AutoIt solution will probably not be secure when you don't know the rest...

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Perhaps if you post what you have tried someone will spot a problem.

i must run internet explorer and other 2 client apps . tried all the apps with progman as shell and all works fine. but some users used the "run" trick from the filemenu to explore and run other executables...

Use a linux kiosk solution.

i need windows because the apps are win32 executables

Or dig into the administrative tasks of windows. A AutoIt solution will probably not be secure when you don't know the rest...

My need is only to prevent users to run other apps out from those assigned.

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i must run internet explorer

You realize, of course, that by allowing the use of a web browser, they have access to the filesystem, and therefore can get around their lack of a Windows Taskbar. Be sure to lock down permissions on files they should not have access to also.

By using a Linux solution with Wine (or another Windows emulator), you could effectively give them a browser and run your other apps, while not having any other Windows apps on the system.

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My need is only to prevent users to run other apps out from those assigned.

Thats what the digging is for..:)

Why you can't use a use a linux solution beats me.

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You realize, of course, that by allowing the use of a web browser, they have access to the filesystem, and therefore can get around their lack of a Windows Taskbar. Be sure to lock down permissions on files they should not have access to also.

By using a Linux solution with Wine (or another Windows emulator), you could effectively give them a browser and run your other apps, while not having any other Windows apps on the system.

i know, but i use internet explorer in kiosk mode and local gpo's for the security. There's no need to use linux. i just want to make a little shell

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Thats what the digging is for..:)

Why you can't use a use a linux solution beats me.

Because Linux is not an acceptable solution for the majority of businesses?? On the whole, commercial enterprises want to stay with Windows and there is no way to convince them to do otherwise.

George

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