Windows SteadyState Returns Your PC to Normal

Any changes they make to the configuration will be undone just by restarting the machine.

Here we take a look at SteadyState running on a Windows XP machine.

When you install SteadyState you’ll need to validate your copy of windows with Genuine Advantage.

In the first part of the SteadyState wizard, add the username, password, and picture.

Notice you’re free to create the user on the system drive or an alternate partition or drive.

confirm to lock the profile so they can’t make permanent changes themselves.

In Windows Restrictions you could restrict them from several aspects of the OS.

In Feature Restrictions you’re free to lock down Internet access through IE and program menus and prefs.

In the Block Programs section you determine which programs a user can access.

Windows Disk Protection helps protect system prefs and data on the drive where the OS is installed.

It is turned off by default and to turn it on click Protect the Hard disk.

In the next screen you might turn it on and to complete the process a restart is required.

The minimum amount of space you’ve got the option to use is 2GB.

Schedule Windows Updates and other program updates.

you might also use your own script to schedule a time.

Getting this to work in Windows 7 is rather tricky.

I installed it using compatibility mode on Windows 7 32-bit, however not everything worked.

Right now I see no official support for it.

They were going to include a similar feature but it was scrapped.

If you still have a public XP or Vista machine however, it is still a great choice.