My father is VP at the local Senior's Center, wherein they have 4 general use, unnetworked, public computers with win7 loaded on them...central printer, Internet access, anyone can use them with a published login and password....blah-blah-blah.
Their problem is that people come in and stake a claim to a particular machine because they have saved their bookmarks, put their favorite pretty wallpaper on the desktop, or made other user configuration changes that fit their own personal preferences.
Some of these changes cause problems for other users, or in terms of system operation.
He asked me if there is any way to break this cycle (probably because these people have nothing better to do than to stake a claim on a machine and defend it), but I have no win7 machine to experiment on. So, I thought that I might ask those of you who have direct knowledge of this....
Can windows 7 be configured to force a non-administrative users changes to be deleted once that user has logged out, returning that user account to a known, predetermined state?
Their problem is that people come in and stake a claim to a particular machine because they have saved their bookmarks, put their favorite pretty wallpaper on the desktop, or made other user configuration changes that fit their own personal preferences.
Some of these changes cause problems for other users, or in terms of system operation.
He asked me if there is any way to break this cycle (probably because these people have nothing better to do than to stake a claim on a machine and defend it), but I have no win7 machine to experiment on. So, I thought that I might ask those of you who have direct knowledge of this....
Can windows 7 be configured to force a non-administrative users changes to be deleted once that user has logged out, returning that user account to a known, predetermined state?
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