Re: Internet Explorer

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Little bit of a hokey setup, but this could get it to work:

Set up the screensaver as logoff.scr, activating after 15 minutes
Enable auto-admin log on
Place a shortcut to iexplore.exe in the Startup group

hth... Ken


"user" <a> wrote in message news:OI4QbNdmFHA.3960@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Thanks for the reply but that would only work on the pages I control. If a
> user navigated out to Google and left it on that page, thats where it
> would stay. I would like the machine to wait a specified idle time, say
> 15 minutes, then go to the Home page even if Google (or any other webpage)
> is up.
>
>
>
> "Jerold Schulman" <Jerry@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:sb94f1h8h69f1e1vb7c55085ingv082l4r@xxxxxxxxxx
>> On Thu, 4 Aug 2005 12:41:13 +0100, "user" <a> wrote:
>>
>>>Sorry if this is posted in the wrong group..
>>>
>>>I'm looking for a way to control the behaviour of a machine and IE within
>>>it.
>>>
>>>Situation is this:
>>>
>>>We have some Win 2000 computers set up for the public to use just for the
>>>Internet. Currently they are subject to a hard lockdown via GP to stop
>>>people messing.
>>>We have a Home page stored on the local machine which gives the user a
>>>'Welcome' screen and various options in four languages on how to use the
>>>machines etc. with various links localised for their language google.de,
>>>google.fr, google.com etc etc.
>>>
>>>What I like to do is this:
>>>1. Stop people from closing Internet Explorer down.
>>>2. Get IE to go back to its Home page after a set period of inactivity so
>>>it
>>>is ready for the next user with the 'Welcome' screen up. I'm guessing
>>>that
>>>the best way to do this would be somehow via Scheduled Tasks?
>>>
>>>Any help and suggestion would be greatly appreciated!
>>>
>>>Best regards,
>>>Jimbo
>>>
>> To redirect back to your Welcome page after 1 minute of inactivity,
>> assuming your Welcome page is http://welcome.mydomain.com
>>
>> <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="60;url=http://welcome.mydomain.com/";>
>>
>> Add this to every page.
>>
>>
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