Windows SteadyState: Manage, protect and secure your PC

Windows SteadyState makes the configuration and management of computers easier for administrators by simplifying their security. Here are the primary functions of Windows SteadyState:

• Pick Up: understanding the initial steps and their explanations to help you in your first use of Windows SteadyState.

• Protection of Windows disks: Allows you to prevent the modification of the Windows partition which contains the Windows operating system and other programs, without the administrator’s authorization.

• Restrictions and user settings: The restrictions and user settings allows you to improve and simplify the users experience. The access to programs by users, their settings, start menu elements and Windows XP options can be restricted. You can also lock user accounts to prevent changes from taking place from one session to another.

• Administer user accounts: Create and delete account. You can use Windows SteadyState to create user accounts on other drives where you can store data and user configurations even if the Windows drive protection is activated. You can also import and export user’s settings from one computer to another and save precious time and resources.

• Computer restrictions: Control the security settings, confidentiality or other settings to prevent, for example, users from creating and storing folders on the C drive and from opening Microsoft Office files from Internet Explorer.

These functions make Windows SteadyState an ideal tool for situations where you find the computer being used by numerous people, like in schools, public libraries, communications centers and cybercafés.

Shared computers present their own specific problems. Current programs are designed to offer possibilities for personalization. But in the scope of shared computer use, it is generally not desirable to allow all access and functions that can be changed. Windows SteadyState will help protect your shared computers against unwanted changes.