{"id":219,"date":"2014-09-25T14:11:34","date_gmt":"2014-09-25T13:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidlowe\/?p=219"},"modified":"2014-09-25T14:16:09","modified_gmt":"2014-09-25T13:16:09","slug":"setting-up-a-dedicated-catalogue-search-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidlowe\/2014\/09\/25\/setting-up-a-dedicated-catalogue-search-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Setting up a Dedicated Catalogue Search PC"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the requirements of the newly refurbished Language Resource Centre was to have a facility for quickly searching our catalogue of available language learning self-study resources. To this end, I have produced a dedicated system using arm-mounted touch-screen all-in-one PCs locked down to display our very own on-line catalogue search form.\u00a0The PCs were built using\u00a0standard Windows 7 64-bit WDS images available on campus (thanks go\u00a0to our Desktop Infrastructure team for injecting the appropriate HP\u00a0extensible drivers to the build to enable USB 3.0\/\u00a0touch screen capability). I locked the PCs down using Group Policy.\u00a0 Here is a brief outline. Within a newly created Group Policy, I first enabled a specific user account to log on locally (best practise: add it to a security group), and removed the need to logon using CTRL-ALT-DEL ; these settings are found under Computer Configuration\/Policies\/Windows Settings\/Security\/Local Policies\/User Rights assignment and Security options, as shown in the picture below:<\/p>\n

\"gpo1\"<\/a><\/p>\n

To automatically log this user on at start up, I expanded the Computer Configuration\/Preferences section and added the following registry keys and values as shown in the pictures below (all REG_SZ string type):<\/p>\n

\"gpo4\"\u00a0\"gpo2\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Under the\u00a0 User Configuration\/Policies\/Administrative templates\/System\/Custom user Interface, I defined explorer.exe as the GUI to replace the normal Windows 7 desktop GUI. I also ensured that under\u00a0the System\/Logon – Run these programs at user logon setting\u00a0was defined to run the Microsoft On screen keyboard (%systemdrive%\\windows\\system32\\osk.exe).<\/p>\n

Also under User Configuration\/Preferences\/Windows Settings\/Registry I created a new registry value called LogPixels (type REG_DWORD) and set its value to 144 – this gave me a nice crisp\u00a0and highly accessible font DPI size when used in conjuction with\u00a0CSS em\u00a0settings\u00a0in our online catalogue web form.<\/p>\n

A couple of invaluable resources I found to help with GPO settings: http:\/\/deployhappiness.com\/group-policy-kiosk-mode-locking-down\/<\/a>\u00a0and a detailed explanation for setting\u00a0Windows font DPI size: http:\/\/social.technet.microsoft.com\/forums\/windows\/en-US\/c20c4c47-092d-4daa-b4a8-154b3852e13d\/using-group-policy-to-set-windows-font-dpi-size<\/a><\/p>\n

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