Comments on: Use Windows SteadyState to manage and lock down user accounts for shared access computers

By: Seb

Seb — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 11:16:45 +0000

Hi
I just found this program and so far its perfect apart from 1 thing: I want to be able to set up accounts for my kids that allow then an 1 hour on the computer and then log them off. It does that great but then they just log back on for another hour ;(
Is there any way (or other program) that it will let me log them off after a specified time and then not allow then to log back on for another specified time?
Hope that makes scene.
Thank for any help

By: Ezequiel

Ezequiel — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:41:53 +0000

Thanks for the info. Does the Windows SteadyState software come with Windows 7?

By: Monty Ray

Monty Ray — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 23:47:01 +0000

Please help me find the toolbar section in the FEATURES tab form the item #7 blog. I need to user Steady State with domain profiles and need to turn off the “third party software” switch.
Thanks

In order to enable the add-ons, just take the check off of the “third party software” section under the toolbar
section in the FEATURES tab. It should work after that.

By: Keith Styles

Keith Styles — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 04:30:27 +0000

Hi George, Thanks for the advice. It took me a while, but I did finally figure it out. Kinda obvious, once I put 2&2 together & achieved the result I was after.

By: George

George — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 06:17:30 +0000

In order to enable the add-ons, just take the check off of the “third party software” section under the toolbar section in the FEATURES tab. It should work after that.

By: Philip

Philip — Thu, 14 May 2009 20:27:24 +0000

Is there a way to add an Active Directory domain user or group to the users section instead of just local users? I want use this as a VMWare template and have multiple network users be locked down by Steady State?

thanks,

By: Keith Styles

Keith Styles — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 16:50:21 +0000

I’ve set WSS up ok, but for one problem;

The IE ADD On functions are all disabled. How do I enable them. I’ve tried with the user (limited) account locked & unlocked, but I am still unable to get the AddOns enabled. I don’t see any options in WSS which applies to this function.
Some help would be appreciated.

..Keith

By: veeru

veeru — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 10:07:33 +0000

Hi,

I want to restrict limited users to connect to the internet, Is it possible to do this from windows steady state?

By: rodrigo

rodrigo — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:31:08 +0000

Existe alguma maneira de desabilitar as mensagens do windows steady state quando o computador inicia???

By: akishore

akishore — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 13:36:36 +0000

Hi Ryan, good question, it’s not silly at all. If you have the Disk Protection feature on, this means that Windows will not allow any changes to the system files on the C drive, so you should create the new user profiles on a separate partition, such as D, E, etc.

Now if you only have one local drive, C, that’s also ok, simply create a new folder at the root of your C drive called Users or something similar and create the accounts there.

Let me know if this makes sense. Thanks.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 12:50:13 +0000

Hello,

Quote: ‘First, you would want to click Add a New User to create a new shared user profile. For the User Location, choose the C drive unless you have Windows Disk Protection on. I’ll explain why later.’

Im sorry if this seems like a silly question, but if i do want the Protection on, where do i save the new user profile to?

Thanks,

Ryan