[OPLINTECH] Librarica Cassie and Windows 7

Thu Aug 4 14:27:09 EDT 2011

Hi Lynne,

Perhaps an easier way would be preventing the user from closing Internet Explorer at all?

There is two ways to go about preventing a user from Closing Internet Explorer.

1st way is via Group Policy

1.       Go to Start and then Run. In the Run Dialog type gpedit.msc

2.       Go to User Configuration in the left pane of the Group Policy editor

3.       Expand Administrative Templates

4.       Double Click Internet Explorer

5.       Double Click Browser Menus

6.       Double Click the Setting “File menu: Disable the closing of browser and explorer windows”

7.       Enable the policy setting

8.       Reboot the Machine

Now users won’t be able to close Internet Explorer….you can still shut down the machine though as far as I can tell. (The ways to close IE from the file menu will be grayed out and the red x at the top of the window won’t work)

The 2nd way is via the Registry.

1.       Open the run dialog box and type regedit

2.       Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Restrictions

3.       Create a new DWORD Value within the Restriction node with the name NoBrowserClose (must be type exactly as seen) 

4.       Set the value appropriately for NoBrowserClose  0 = disable restriction 1 =  enable restriction

5.       Restart the computer

No users can’t close Internet Explorer(via file menu or the red x at the top)….The Registry setting does pretty much the same thing as the group policy setting. Preventing users from closing the Internet Explorer window on those machines would probably be easier than running a script to check if its open every so often and then invoking it.

Just my 2 cents…I hope those two options will be of help to you

Sincerely

Ron Woods

Computer Services Manager

St. Clairsville Public Library

740-695-2062

http://www.stclibrary.org

woodsro at oplin.org

Hi Ron,

Thanks for this option!

I have a similar question, but this one relates to auto-starting a program every time it is closed. People keep closing the window with our catalog (it's Internet Explorer) and I wondered if there is a way to make it automatically re-open if someone closes it. Sadly, our public is not savvy enough to re-open the window themselves, and so the PACs sit there unused a great deal of the time.

Any suggestions for me? (We're running XP Pro)

Lynne Welch, 
Herrick Memorial Library - 
Wellington Ohio USA | 
tel. 440-647-2120

  _____  

Hi,

If you want to remove the shutdown button from Windows Start Menu do the following:

1.       Go to Start button and open the Run Dialog box.

2.       Type gpedit.msc and hit enter

3.       Expand “User Configuration” in the left pane of the group policy editor and then Expand “Administrative Templates” and then Click on “Start Menu and Taskbar” .

4.       Double Click “Remove and prevent access to Shutdown, Reboot, Sleep, and hibernate commands” 

5.       Enable the policy

6.       Restart the Machine

Now the Shutdown button will be gone from the Start Menu (works on XP. Vista, and as far as I know Windows 7 Business/Professional Versions and higher) The setting may be named slightly different if your using XP or 7..i just checked it on Vista Business SP2 and the setting is there.

Sincerely

Ron Woods

Computer Services Manager

St. Clairsville Public Library

740-695-2062

http://www.stclibrary.org

woodsro at oplin.org

From: oplintech-bounces at lists.oplin.org [mailto:oplintech-bounces at lists.oplin.org] On Behalf Of Shelley Bylica
Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 12:46 PM
To: 'Amy Wilson'; oplintech at oplin.org
Cc: 'Ann Bavin'
Subject: Re: [OPLINTECH] Librarica Cassie and Windows 7

We have the same issue here using XP & Vista. We would be interested also to learn about the solution to this problem to recommend to our IT group as we do also have to repeatedly “log people out of the Cassie system”  and log computers in again manually when patrons thought they had logged out when they logged out of Windows. 

Shelley Bylica

Public Services Librarian,

Marvin Memorial Library

419-347-5576 ext1

-----Original Message-----
From: oplintech-bounces at lists.oplin.org [mailto:oplintech-bounces at lists.oplin.org] On Behalf Of Amy Wilson
Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 12:24 PM
To: oplintech at oplin.org
Subject: [OPLINTECH] Librarica Cassie and Windows 7

For those using Cassie and Windows 7, does anyone know if there is a way to get rid of shutdown button on the start menu completely.  We are looking to find a way for Cassie to take over the logoff/exit process using the exit button on the Cassie menu.  Problem we are running into is an exit in windows does not equal an exit in cassie, so even though the user logged off of windows they still have the computer reserved in Cassie.  Any help would be most appreciated.

Amy Wilson

Network Administrator

Rocky River Public Library

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