Is there a way to prevent my students at school from downloading and/or installing unauthorized material? I find that they've downloaded games and such to the school computers quite often. And then there are the file sharing programs that don't belong on school machines. Chat and email web sites are against school policy too. How, in Windows XP or 98, can I prevent this without removing Internet Explorer - which we need for other projects?
This probably isn't the place for it.
You may look for content-filters or proxies. If your school isn't terribly big, you could probably use a PHP one to access and filter out every site that someone goes to.
My school is small enough alright. But I need to be able to access ANY site from my "teacher computer" wich is on the same server as all the student computers.
Are there not some settings in XP that might help? What right are used/removed in the Guest account in XP?
Whatever account they use, just set up as "restricted users". Should have some advanced control in the user control panel where you can specify what exactly they can and cannot do.
If you still wanna use 98, then have a look at Fortres 101. Its a bit of software that is run on start up, is invisible to the user and you can lock down a computer tighter than a very very tight thing.
Yeah. I had that Fortress on there before. Kind of forgot about it. It looks like their Clean Slate program is more like what I'm after. It resets any changes back to the way they were when you log off or reboot the machine. I'm going to try the demo to see if I like it. Thanks for the help.
