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Our family runs a small café, and we are using a computer running WinXP home to let the costumers surf the net. Last year we simply let the users use the Guest account using trust-no-exe, but it's not really safe or pratical (my mom uses this computer for personal use aswell, so we have to keep the visitors out of some parts of the hard drive). How would you suggest to set it up? All suggestions are welcome, I considered Knoppix but then I heard that older hardware and mobos might not work correctly with it, and this computer is about 5 years old (possibly more, can't remember). The most important thing is that the computer can be booted into a normal WinXP home account without any installs/uninstalls.

Hi,

I don't know too much about this toolkit (never needed to lock anything down beyond what could be done through common group policy settings), but that would be the first place I would look.  See if it helps:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/sharedaccess/default.mspx

Maybe use something like this

http://www.antamedia.com/

You could try a live cd... they cant save anything... or access the hard drive.... Try DSLinux

cybercafe pro?

http://www.cybercafepro.com/

i only know of it because of erm... 'friendly' versions out there

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Originally posted by Adeptus
Hi,

I don't know too much about this toolkit (never needed to lock anything down beyond what could be done through common group policy settings), but that would be the first place I would look.  See if it helps:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/sharedaccess/default.mspx

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Seems nice, I'll try it later today or tomorrow. Thanks to everyone else, too, keep those sugegstions coming. I would prefer a free way to do it