🚀 go-pugleaf

On Tue, 8 Mar 1994, Lowell Herr wrote:

>  I am looking for software that will protect the terminal settings for
> both Mac's and Windows (DOS) machines.  I understand FoolProof works well
> for the Mac.  Any suggestions for DOS machines.  This software should not
> lock students out of the system but should prevent them from playing
> around with the basic screen settings.  Thanks for suggestions.
>

One way of limiting access to Windows is as follows:

In progman.ini add a section called:
[Restrictions]
NoSaveSettings=1
NoFileMenu=1
EditLevel=4

This will grey out the save settings on exit command. The second line
will remove the file menu so that students can not run programs from a
floppy disk. The third line will make the Windows Program Manager screen
completely unchangeable.

Be sure that Program Manager is set up EXACTLY the way you want it before
you add any of these settings. When you need to get into ProgMan and
change how it appears, change all of the above settings to 0, save, and
exit Windows. When you restart Windows it will be "normal" again.

Also, I remove the Control Panel and File Manager icons from the Program
Manager screen. This really limits what the user can do with the machine,
which I really don't like to do, but it also keeps me from having to
rearrange the screen frequently.

Making these changes to Windows makes it act very similar to At Ease for
the Macs.

Hope this was the type of answer you were looking for.

Dean Elliott
Evan Hardy Collegiate
Saskatoon, Sask.
S7N 2E4