Comments on: Windows SteadyState Lockdown and the Youth Internet Café /2007/07/31/windows-steadystate-lockdown-and-the-youth-internet-cafe/ David Szpunar: Owner, Servant 42 and Servant Voice Sun, 30 Nov 2008 14:51:58 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 By: XTN /2007/07/31/windows-steadystate-lockdown-and-the-youth-internet-cafe/comment-page-1/#comment-14541 Sun, 30 Nov 2008 14:51:58 +0000 http://infotech.davidszpunar.com/2007/07/31/windows-steadystate-lockdown-and-the-youth-internet-cafe/#comment-14541 Hello everyone im operating a small internet cafe with 12 pc’s. im using deep freeze to protect my configuration.im quite satisfied with deep freeze but we have online games that receive frequent updates or patches and i have to thaw the system one by one to get these updates.can anyone tell me a solution to this? do you guys know a similar product that will enable me to protect or selectively choose which folders i like be open for changes .thanks

]]> By: Edward Wells /2007/07/31/windows-steadystate-lockdown-and-the-youth-internet-cafe/comment-page-1/#comment-2334 Tue, 05 Feb 2008 07:55:11 +0000 http://infotech.davidszpunar.com/2007/07/31/windows-steadystate-lockdown-and-the-youth-internet-cafe/#comment-2334 Hello kind Sir:
I am still trying to figure out the screen saver function,and how to get it to run the screensaver I choose and not the default XP screensaver.
I have read many posts on it and seems like you had no problem with it. Might I get some help from you on that
issue?I know that problem is to be addressed by MicroS,
but as yet have found no updates for this issue.
Nice looking setup you have by the way.
Keep that smile and good info going :)..

]]> By: Pictures of SteadyState Internet Cafe Computers /2007/07/31/windows-steadystate-lockdown-and-the-youth-internet-cafe/comment-page-1/#comment-838 Mon, 29 Oct 2007 03:47:31 +0000 http://infotech.davidszpunar.com/2007/07/31/windows-steadystate-lockdown-and-the-youth-internet-cafe/#comment-838 […] been promising pictures of the Youth Internet Cafe running Firefox and Microsoft SteadyState but first I forgot, then I […]

]]> By: David Szpunar /2007/07/31/windows-steadystate-lockdown-and-the-youth-internet-cafe/comment-page-1/#comment-358 Sun, 19 Aug 2007 03:50:36 +0000 http://infotech.davidszpunar.com/2007/07/31/windows-steadystate-lockdown-and-the-youth-internet-cafe/#comment-358 George,

I am sorry you’re having such difficulties, but the four machines on which I installed SteadyState were not joined to a domain, they were standalone Windows XP Pro SP2 installations. I have not had the difficulties you describe. I did end up with a computer that wouldn’t boot originally, but it appears that that was a hard drive problem as running SpinRite and reinstalling Windows worked and I haven’t seen the problem since. (These were off-lease refurb computers so I’m not horrified by one of four having a minor issue, especially one so easily corrected.)

Perhaps you could try Safe Mode and see if it’s possible to disable the Disk Protection so you may try other options without reinstalling Windows?

Sorry I don’t have more helpful information, but if you do solve your problem you’re welcome to post it here so others can benefit from your solution.

]]> By: George /2007/07/31/windows-steadystate-lockdown-and-the-youth-internet-cafe/comment-page-1/#comment-351 Fri, 17 Aug 2007 03:48:31 +0000 http://infotech.davidszpunar.com/2007/07/31/windows-steadystate-lockdown-and-the-youth-internet-cafe/#comment-351 m running XP Pro on a domain.(let me know what other specifications you need) I installed SteadyState on numerous machines. 10 machines, worked fine. 10 other machines, when I turned Disk Protection “On� and the program installed disk protection everything seemed fine. To complete the installation of disk protection it restarts after clicking OK.</p> <p>Here’s where I’m getting the problem. It gets to the Windows XP screen and the bar under the windows icon that cycles from left to right never freezes, but I left one machine for a half an hour and it didn’t boot up. I ended up pulling the plug, and going home for the night. I couldn’t figure out why it was doing that.</p> <p>Please let me know what I can do to get SteadyState installed on those machines.</p> ]]> I’m running XP Pro on a domain.(let me know what other specifications you need) I installed SteadyState on numerous machines. 10 machines, worked fine. 10 other machines, when I turned Disk Protection “On� and the program installed disk protection everything seemed fine. To complete the installation of disk protection it restarts after clicking OK.

Here’s where I’m getting the problem. It gets to the Windows XP screen and the bar under the windows icon that cycles from left to right never freezes, but I left one machine for a half an hour and it didn’t boot up. I ended up pulling the plug, and going home for the night. I couldn’t figure out why it was doing that.

Please let me know what I can do to get SteadyState installed on those machines.

]]> By: Firefox Updates and Windows SteadyState /2007/07/31/windows-steadystate-lockdown-and-the-youth-internet-cafe/comment-page-1/#comment-343 Wed, 15 Aug 2007 17:08:17 +0000 http://infotech.davidszpunar.com/2007/07/31/windows-steadystate-lockdown-and-the-youth-internet-cafe/#comment-343 […] ran into a small issue with the SteadyState/Firefox setup that was a relatively easy fix: Firefox tried to update itself and the theme when new versions came […]

]]> By: Paul Marc /2007/07/31/windows-steadystate-lockdown-and-the-youth-internet-cafe/comment-page-1/#comment-339 Wed, 15 Aug 2007 15:48:16 +0000 http://infotech.davidszpunar.com/2007/07/31/windows-steadystate-lockdown-and-the-youth-internet-cafe/#comment-339 David
I have started a similar project also using steadystate. What did you use to “kill the firefox.exe process after 5 minutes of the computer being idle” ?

]]> By: David Szpunar /2007/07/31/windows-steadystate-lockdown-and-the-youth-internet-cafe/comment-page-1/#comment-292 Tue, 31 Jul 2007 17:19:16 +0000 http://infotech.davidszpunar.com/2007/07/31/windows-steadystate-lockdown-and-the-youth-internet-cafe/#comment-292 Thanks, Matt! Glad I could help! Getting a good response from people is a pretty good motivator to put effort into detailed articles in the future. I appreciate you as well as Brett and John above taking the time to comment. You even get a little Google Juice for your own blog since I’m a DoFollower :-)

]]> By: Matt Singley /2007/07/31/windows-steadystate-lockdown-and-the-youth-internet-cafe/comment-page-1/#comment-290 Tue, 31 Jul 2007 14:29:19 +0000 http://infotech.davidszpunar.com/2007/07/31/windows-steadystate-lockdown-and-the-youth-internet-cafe/#comment-290 What a great post! I think you’ve convinced me to deploy SS at work. Thanks for the info!

]]> By: David Szpunar /2007/07/31/windows-steadystate-lockdown-and-the-youth-internet-cafe/comment-page-1/#comment-288 Tue, 31 Jul 2007 14:21:13 +0000 http://infotech.davidszpunar.com/2007/07/31/windows-steadystate-lockdown-and-the-youth-internet-cafe/#comment-288 Thanks Brett and John, glad my post was helpful! Took me long enough to write the thing…and I still need to do the part about the physical install! But I figured it was about time for another technical post. Maybe I’ll try to keep the next one under 1000 words though…I had to find a plugin to auto-create the table of contents just for this thing :-)

Let me know if you run into any issues with SS, or if you have success as well; I’m sure my machines will need to be tweaked after teens beat them up!

Oh yeah, and don’t forget to set a BIOS password and prevent booting from CD-ROM or floppy in addition to SteadyState, or someone could use a live Linux distro or do any number of bad things to your locked down systems.

]]> By: John De Souza /2007/07/31/windows-steadystate-lockdown-and-the-youth-internet-cafe/comment-page-1/#comment-287 Tue, 31 Jul 2007 14:13:25 +0000 http://infotech.davidszpunar.com/2007/07/31/windows-steadystate-lockdown-and-the-youth-internet-cafe/#comment-287 David, just last night I was reading about SteadyState. In my “daytime” job I am responsible for PCs for a regional real estate broker. We provide many “shared” or “public” PCs. We have used either 1) nothing, 2) limited users, 3) Deep Freeze, or 4) Drive Vaccine. We have not settled on one approach. I will try SS this week, Thanks.

]]> By: Brett Anderson /2007/07/31/windows-steadystate-lockdown-and-the-youth-internet-cafe/comment-page-1/#comment-286 Tue, 31 Jul 2007 12:08:54 +0000 http://infotech.davidszpunar.com/2007/07/31/windows-steadystate-lockdown-and-the-youth-internet-cafe/#comment-286 Good info David – I just started looking at SteadyState for the same purpose here at CLC, and this info will come in handy.
I heard your name mentioned as I was listening to Casting From the Server Room yesterday in the gym. I thought “I know that guy!” Pretty cool!

]]>