In addition to my previous response about using Visual Basic 4( and VB5 comes
out next month!),  if you are using Win95 or NT for the unit you can set user
policys using the policy editor.  there is no built in shortcut to it so
you'll have to do in 95.  you have to get the file off of the Win95 CD in the
ADMIN\AppTools\PolEdit folder.  this allows you an enormous amount of control
over the system without resorting to third party add-on products.  you can
disable the run command in the start menu.  there is even an option to HIDE
all desktop icons maknig tehm completely unavailable.  Nothing against Peter
here, i'm sure that cnfiguration is going to work fine.  but VB + Internet
Explorer and built in Win95 tools will do the trick just as well and may save
you some development headaches.

Gary Acord


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From:   Museum discussion list on behalf of Shrope/Ratcliffe
Sent:   Sunday, February 16, 1997 7:10 PM
To:     [log in to unmask]
Subject:        Re: hacking Netscape for Kiosks...

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu:8000/NS/visc2.html


This is for Windows.
The critical thing here is that you use a 16 bit version of Netscape, on
Win95. I'm using Visual C++ v. 1.5, and everything works fine except I
can't get the ADD BOOKMARKS to go away? It's not on the floor yet, so
hasn't been really tested! But the results look positive.

I'm also using WinU as the desktop.  www.bardon.com
You can set any program(s) you want the public to access, and WinU locks
them off of the harddrive...password protected.

Peter Shrope
Maryland Science Center
Baltimore