Thread: Windows SteadyState

Windows SteadyState permits to shield shared Windows XP and Vista PCs from illegal alters to hard disks and to control users from accessing or modifying system settings and data.

SteadyState helps create shared PCs simple to set up and keep for administrators, and more dependable and steady for PC users. By using this, you can more efficiently:

• Protect shared PCs from illegal changes to their hard disks.

• Control users from accessing system settings and data.

• Improve user experience on shared PCs.

These capabilities create Windows SteadyState helpful in conditions where a PC is utilized by many people, like schools, libraries, society technology centers, and Cyber cafés.

The important screen of Windows SteadyState is your beginning place to access every setting and limit you can apply. These settings are divided into two kinds of settings.

• Computer Settings—utilize these settings to shield and schedule software updates for whole PC.

• User Settings—Make use of these settings to organize and limit particular user accounts.




After installing Windows SteadyState, your next step is to make new user accounts and organize their equivalent user profiles for shared PC use. You can do this by clicking on Add a new user link on main window.



After your users included then you can organize their settings and limits like limiting Windows aspects and blocking access to certain programs.



You can also organize PC limits which permit you to apply settings and limits at system level that will improve privacy and safety of all shared users who use PC. Some aspects contain removing the shutdown option and avoiding users from making files and folders on C: drive.



Using Schedule Software Updates aspect, you can schedule updates at a particular time of the day and at frequency you would like updates to be finished to share PC. You can schedule updates and affect them permanently, even when Windows Disk Protection is turned on, guaranteeing that main Microsoft updates and antivirus updates are not consequently removed at reboot.



Windows Disk Protection is intended to help shield system settings and data on partition on which XP or Vista is installed from being permanently altered.

The activities executed by a user in a session cause several changes to operating system partition. Program files are made, changed, and deleted. The operating system also updates system information as part of its normal functionality. On a shared PC, though, aim is to make a situation of consistency for all users. Every user who logs on must experience similar situation as all other users, and no user must be able to change or damage system. Windows Disk Protection clears all modifications to operating system partition at what specified interval you set.

After organize a PC the way you want, export and import your organized user profiles to other PCs on which you have installed Windows SteadyState using Export and Import aspect.