Need Kiosk mode or explorer full screen to start automatcally

You really need to replace explorer.exe with a system shell designed for such purposes.  Simply starting IE in full screen mode won't prevent alt-tab switching, ctrl-alt-del to bring up task manager, autoruns from popping in a cd (and in some cases a usb drive), etc.  All of the above can be addressed by other means of course, but switching your shell to one that has a good track record and used by some kiosks would be specifically designed for your purposes.  Even those are often succeptable to keyboard buffer overflows on bootup.

Are you willing to use a commercial solution like that or would you rather spend the time to lock down the box as much as you can with the stock shell?  There's a lot more to attempting to secure the box than simply starting IE in full screen mode on startup.

If you chose the "configit yerself" route...we can help but it's far more involved than just a simple reg hack and unchecking a few default settings.

thanks for the feedback. Unfortunately a commercail solution isn't possible at this point. I fell like securing the workstation can be done to an acceptable level through group policies.  The situation I am in simply requires that the PC be set up to accomodate anonymous public users who are welcome to browse a website to their hearts content but that it. They won't be using the pc for anything else and they don't need to see anything except the website.

Hey.

You can create a .reg file to do this or alternatively do it manually.

Goto Start>Run>Type 'REGEDIT'

Locate:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

You might see the paths of the applications that are loaded when you start your machine to the right of the screen.

Right click on any where on the right side of hte screen on the white bit then on the menu go to:

New> String Value

Double click your new string value then enter the location of IE plus the kiosk switch.
(Remember if there's spaces in the path ex. C:\Program Files\etc you'll need to use speech marks; "C:\Program Files\etc".

ex.

"C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore -k"

If you want a specific page to load except your home page try:

"C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore -k www.otherpage.com"

Now when you restart your machine, IE when be launced automatically in Kiosk Mode.

Doing as Here2Help suggests, and having the users logged under the guest account may be secure enough for your needs.

I agree with Here2Help  but when you apply his solution it will apply to all users untill Administrators , HKLM ?

Why didn't use Group Policy and User Settings ?

NADIR- Where specifically is that setting in group policy that would do the same thing?

Here2- I added the string value and the problem is it doesn't seem to open up explorer after a log in.
"C:\program files\internet explorer\iexplore -k"