Have you ever wanted to maintain a publicly accessible computer without the fear of someone downloading viruses on it or modifying it’s configuration until it’s broken beyond repair?
Enter "Windows SteadyState". (Catchy ain’t it?)
Windows SteadyState is designed to help people set up Windows XP computer kiosks for corporate, education, or public access usage and provide reliability in maintaining/recovering it’s state so that it delivers a consistent experience to everyone that uses it.
The successor to the Shared Computer Toolkit, Windows SteadyState provides the ability to completely ‘erase & rewrite’ the profile & configuration of a computer back to the state it originally was in simply by a reboot. Yeah, yeah… it can lock down the workstation and restrict access to stuff like control panel, but what differentiates it is it’s ability to essentially undo the workstation’s profile – sort of close to reimaging the workstation.
It’s free.
LINK: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/sharedaccess/default.mspx
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