Windows Mobile in Kiosk Mode

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Matt — Mon, 20 Jun 2005 15:25:41 GMT

Thanks! You may have just saved us a lot of work. Great article!

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Mark Arteaga — Mon, 20 Jun 2005 17:14:49 GMT

One way I got around the issue of not running applications was having a program running in the background that will monitor the processes running on the device. For example, the client didn't want IE running, so the "Process Monitor" would kill IE everytime it started. It was a big hack but worked and still working today. I try and promote the "tight integration with device" route but usually security/IT dept want a complete lock down and only the application running.

re: Windows Mobile in Kiosk Mode

Hasani — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 19:09:15 GMT

http://www.aoe.vt.edu/~lscharf/samd/?topic=WinCE&title=Kiosk+Mode+in+Embedded+Visual+Basic

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Also, do you have any recommendations for wince devices we should use to host a kiosk app? doesn't need to be rugged. touch screen and color would be nice.

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Windows Mobile - Kiosk Mode.

Mikehall's Embedded WebLog — Fri, 05 Aug 2005 20:38:08 GMT

Since Kiosk mode seems to be the hot topic of the week (but only because I'm blogging about it!) I thought...

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Asheesh — Wed, 10 Aug 2005 13:15:21 GMT

Hi Marcus,

Extremely informative article. Yes, In fact I myself have advised one of my clients about going for a kiosk mode application, and have recommended the third party (spbsoftwarehouse.com) app for doing that.
But now after having read your article, I have my doubts.

Yes, hard-resetting is one way to go about it, and the third party app doesn't holds on to a single app completely, user does gets hold of other apps at times.

Then there is 1 way of running apps with AutoRun on SD card. I tried finding a way of how to stop running apps from SD card with AutoRun on, but couldn't find a way?
Do you have an idea as to how could this be done or whether in the first place, this is possible or not?

Regards,
Asheesh

Windows Mobile in Kiosk Mode

Windows Mobile for Partners — Sat, 20 Aug 2005 21:28:29 GMT

One of our UK sparring partners in Microsoft has written a great piece on his blog about Windows Mobile...

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Matt Evans — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 11:52:44 GMT

Hi Marcus,

Only just found your blog and after reading this post I thought I'd add my comments on what I have found in trying to lock down devices.

In the newer devices WM2003 and above (and i think ppc2002 as well but the reg keys are in different places) you can use a combination of reg keys to disable the running of applications on the device.

If you set the following key to value 1:
HLKM\Security\Policies\Shell
DisallowRun (DWORD) = 1

And then list the applications in this key, with the name of each value as a number and the value itself the exe name:
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\DisallowRun

KeyName: 1
Type: String
Value: <exe name> e.g. notes.exe

This will then display an error message when you try and run notes.exe.

It doesn't stop you installing new applications, but I think it's easier than installing stub apps over the ROM apps to prevent them running!

Cheers

Matt

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Tony — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 18:40:30 GMT

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