OT: Inhibiting persistent changes to a workstation

From	Don Y <this@isnotme.com>
Newsgroups	sci.electronics.design, comp.arch.embedded
Subject	OT: Inhibiting persistent changes to a workstation
Date	2013-09-27 19:59 -0700
Organization	Aioe.org NNTP Server
Message-ID	<l25gll$vdb$1@speranza.aioe.org> (permalink)

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Hi,

Well, today I was formally told that W7 will be installed on
these machines (see "OT: Disk 'imaging' SW" thread).

*And*, I've been asked to set up 10 machines in a "lab"
for students to "drop in", as needed.

[For the record, I don't run W7 so have only casual experience
with it and its capabilities]

This has got to be an even bigger nightmare to deal with!
Bobby comes in at noon and changes something on machine X.
Mary comes in at 4PM and "discovers" those changes, much to
her chagrin.

(The clientele number ~1000 so creating accounts for each
student is just not realistic)

So, I'm looking for something that will "discard" any changes
made to a system (W7) after a login session terminates.

How effective is "PC Safeguard" in this regard?  Is it worth
pursuing a 3rd party product, instead (e.g., "DeepFreeze")?
Any other suggestions?

[Again, I *really* want to keep myself out of the maintenance
loop.  So, <someone_else> should be able to make the sorts of
"normal" changes to such a system without fear of them being
"discarded" at the end of the session]

Thx,
--don

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OT:  Inhibiting persistent changes to a workstation Don Y <this@isnotme.com> - 2013-09-27 19:59 -0700
  Re: OT:  Inhibiting persistent changes to a workstation Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2013-09-27 21:46 -0700
    Re: OT:  Inhibiting persistent changes to a workstation Don Y <this@isnotme.com> - 2013-09-27 23:01 -0700
  Re: Inhibiting persistent changes to a workstation "Tim Williams" <tmoranwms@charter.net> - 2013-09-28 02:25 -0500
    Re: Inhibiting persistent changes to a workstation Don Y <this@isnotme.com> - 2013-09-28 09:21 -0700
      Re: Inhibiting persistent changes to a workstation "Tim Williams" <tmoranwms@charter.net> - 2013-09-28 12:31 -0500
        Re: Inhibiting persistent changes to a workstation Don Y <this@isnotme.com> - 2013-09-28 13:21 -0700
          Re: Inhibiting persistent changes to a workstation "Tim Williams" <tmoranwms@charter.net> - 2013-09-29 01:47 -0500
      Re: Inhibiting persistent changes to a workstation "Tim Williams" <tmoranwms@charter.net> - 2013-09-28 12:33 -0500
        Re: Inhibiting persistent changes to a workstation Don Y <this@isnotme.com> - 2013-09-28 13:27 -0700
  Re: OT:  Inhibiting persistent changes to a workstation Tom Gardner <spamjunk@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2013-09-28 10:34 +0100
    Re: OT:  Inhibiting persistent changes to a workstation Don Y <this@isnotme.com> - 2013-09-28 16:23 -0700
      Re: OT:  Inhibiting persistent changes to a workstation Herbert Kleebauer <klee@unibwm.de> - 2013-09-29 10:50 +0200
        Re: OT:  Inhibiting persistent changes to a workstation Don Y <this@isnotme.com> - 2013-09-29 09:15 -0700
  Re: OT:  Inhibiting persistent changes to a workstation mike <ham789@netzero.net> - 2013-09-28 04:00 -0700
    Re: OT:  Inhibiting persistent changes to a workstation Don Y <this@isnotme.com> - 2013-09-28 09:29 -0700
      Re: OT:  Inhibiting persistent changes to a workstation mike <ham789@netzero.net> - 2013-09-28 13:15 -0700
        Re: OT:  Inhibiting persistent changes to a workstation Don Y <this@isnotme.com> - 2013-09-28 13:20 -0700
          Re: OT:  Inhibiting persistent changes to a workstation Paul <paul@pcserviceselectronics.co.uk> - 2013-09-28 23:07 +0100
            Re: OT:  Inhibiting persistent changes to a workstation Don Y <this@isnotme.com> - 2013-09-28 15:41 -0700
  Re: OT:  Inhibiting persistent changes to a workstation Rich Webb <webb.ra@example.net> - 2013-09-28 09:56 -0400
    Re: OT:  Inhibiting persistent changes to a workstation Don Y <this@isnotme.com> - 2013-09-28 09:32 -0700
      Re: OT:  Inhibiting persistent changes to a workstation Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com> - 2013-09-28 09:58 -0700
        Re: OT:  Inhibiting persistent changes to a workstation Don Y <this@isnotme.com> - 2013-09-28 16:35 -0700
        Re: OT:  Inhibiting persistent changes to a workstation Spehro Pefhany <speffSNIP@interlogDOTyou.knowwhat> - 2013-09-28 20:12 -0400
          Re: OT:  Inhibiting persistent changes to a workstation Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com> - 2013-09-28 18:09 -0700
            Re: OT:  Inhibiting persistent changes to a workstation krw@attt.bizz - 2013-09-29 11:24 -0400
              Re: OT:  Inhibiting persistent changes to a workstation Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com> - 2013-09-30 10:24 -0700
                Re: OT:  Inhibiting persistent changes to a workstation Don Y <this@isnotme.com> - 2013-09-30 12:11 -0700
                Re: OT:  Inhibiting persistent changes to a workstation Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com> - 2013-10-01 00:12 -0700
                Re: OT:  Inhibiting persistent changes to a workstation Don Y <this@isnotme.com> - 2013-10-01 17:37 -0700
                Re: OT:  Inhibiting persistent changes to a workstation krw@attt.bizz - 2013-10-02 15:32 -0400
                Re: OT:  Inhibiting persistent changes to a workstation krw@attt.bizz - 2013-09-30 19:39 -0400
          Re: OT:  Inhibiting persistent changes to a workstation Don Y <this@isnotme.com> - 2013-09-28 18:33 -0700
  Re: OT:  Inhibiting persistent changes to a workstation Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com> - 2013-09-28 09:37 -0700
    Re: OT:  Inhibiting persistent changes to a workstation Don Y <this@isnotme.com> - 2013-09-28 16:38 -0700
      Re: OT:  Inhibiting persistent changes to a workstation Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com> - 2013-09-28 18:30 -0700
        Re: OT:  Inhibiting persistent changes to a workstation Don Y <this@isnotme.com> - 2013-09-28 18:39 -0700
  Re: OT:  Inhibiting persistent changes to a workstation David Brown <david.brown@removethis.hesbynett.no> - 2013-09-29 23:13 +0200
    Re: OT:  Inhibiting persistent changes to a workstation Don Y <this@isnotme.com> - 2013-09-29 15:43 -0700
  Re: OT:  Inhibiting persistent changes to a workstation Don Y <This.is@not.Me> - 2013-11-17 01:06 -0700

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