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Tools of the trade for locking down your computers

11 Aug 2010 - 11:36am | Sarah Washburn

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Lockdown utilities have been on my mind, mostly because we continue to hear from libraries wondering how to protect their public computers due to the precarious situation that the Windows 7 and Windows SteadyState situation has caused. We've offered some alternatives to SteadyState in previous posts, and covered lockdown utilities in our first Cookbook (pdf), but I thought some recent experiences from the field might offer some help for libraries seeking a new solution.

Do you use thin clients at your library?

9 Jan 2009 - 3:45pm | Sarah Washburn

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Here at TechSoup, we've been talking quite a bit about the benefits of using thin clients at libraries and public labs.

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