Comments on: How to open Internet Explorer in full screen kiosk mode

By: Prevent Users from Shutting Down Windows 7 Unless They are Logged In

Prevent Users from Shutting Down Windows 7 Unless They are Logged In — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 12:38:28 +0000

[...] down a PC from the Windows 7 login screen, but consider this: Some computers such as those in a kiosk, public café, or work environment need to have certain aspects disabled to avoid negatively [...]

By: Ville

Ville — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 03:15:27 +0000

For some reason my kiosk mode is not full screen. Why is that? I’m not really sure what’s wrong, but I followed your instructions.

Also, is it possible to have kiosk mode with an address bar?

By: Daisy

Daisy — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 17:14:32 +0000

Yes, full screen and Kiosk mode are two different things. Use the latter if you want to prevent users from doing anything other than browsing the Internet. Use it for public computers, etc.

By: tom

tom — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:41:03 +0000

To append this – when creating the shortcut, the best way would be to make a shortcut to anything (instead of pasting the IE path directly), right click the shortcut then change the target to “C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\IEXPLORE.EXE” –k and set your home page in IE to your kiosk webpage. Change your Icon to the IE icon and g2g.

By: Tony Denicola

Tony Denicola — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 23:19:54 +0000

How do I keep my computer opening in full screen without hitting Maximize each time I open a website?

Some computers have a close and some have exit in file menu. I was told to stetch picture to fill the screen then hold down the ctrl and shift. Seems to woork only on computers that have close in the file menu exit ones it does not work

By: phuket

phuket — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 04:52:05 +0000

I’m having a similar problem. Can you tell me how to turn off Kiosk Mode in IE?

By: rachelle

rachelle — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 17:48:55 +0000

Thanks, but how do you turn off Kiosk mode now!? I can’t get rid of it!

By: Sarah

Sarah — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:56:52 +0000

Also, you can use other command line arguments with IE 8, such as -private to start in InPrivate mode and -extoff to start IE with no extensions.

and -k for kiosk mode is definitely different than using F11 for full-screen mode!

By: Rajesh Reddy

Rajesh Reddy — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:12:34 +0000

Very useful tip, thanks

By: Anders

Anders — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 14:49:12 +0000

Hi, nice trick. But can you open IE in kiosk mode on a “secondary screen” ?

Regards Anders

By: web designer phuket

web designer phuket — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 05:53:54 +0000

I think this very good for local computers, is there a kiosk mode for online web browsers? When a visitor clicks a link, it automaticaly loads in F11 full-screen mode?

By: Sorpigal

Sorpigal — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 12:25:43 +0000

@Karen Freeman

F11 and -k are not at all the same thing. F11 gives you “full screen” mode, whereas -k gives you “kiosk” mode.

Try hitting F11 while in kiosk mode and you get… nothing. Try opening the file menu by hitting ALT+F… nothing. The browser is locked down in this mode. In full screen mode the user can easily and obviously escape back to normal mode and all normal functions work.

The original post is incorrect in equating full screen mode and kiosk mode. Which you use depends on what you really want.

By: Karen Freeman

Karen Freeman — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 20:11:16 +0000

I am using IE version 7.0 and your approach doesn’t work because you can’t put quotes before C:\ etc. Windows automatically puts in another C:\ before the “C:\ that you’ve inserted.
And if you get rid of the “C:\ and just start with “Program Files etc., that doesn’t work either.

Why not just tell your users to use the Function key F11? It’s a toggle, it’s fast and easy, and it works beautifully.

Karen

By: Geo

Geo — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 16:35:06 +0000

Excellent programme……u r very genious..thanks a lot.

By: abhishek

abhishek — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 06:08:02 +0000

quite useful tip…thanks