Now I’m not going to stand myself up as the world’s foremost “kiosk expert”, but in my experience, all of the ones I’ve built have been with “internet cafe”-style functionality in mind. So the built-in Windows 10 “kiosk mode” feature doesn’t actually allow you to run it with an internet browser of any sort. And neither is any browser, for the record. Well, Edge is a UWP app isn’t it? Actually it’s not quite a UWP app, it doesn’t update through the Windows Store, and it turns out it’s actually not available as an option in Assigned Access. Assigned Access only allows you to assign Universal Windows Platform apps (Modern Apps, if you prefer) for the kiosk mode. And Assigned Access is – well, it’s a way to enable a kiosk mode that can only one run application! Sounds just what we need, eh? Now, anyone who has ever scanned through a list of Windows 10’s features (or attended one of my many sessions on the subject) is probably quite aware that the new Microsoft operating system ships with a feature called Assigned Access. So, should be a nice short and succinct article… Ideally, the user’s settings (such as websites visited, bookmarks, cookies, etc.) should be purged at the end of the browsing sessionĭoesn’t sound too bad, no? Especially as though I’d done this with Internet Explorer on Windows 7 many times.
There should be no way for the user to activate other applications, browse the filesystem, or otherwise delve into or use other parts of the operating system.The user should be presented with nothing more than a full-screen browsing session upon logon, branded as necessary.The user should not have to remember or be given a password – logon should be automatic.It must run Microsoft Edge, not Internet Explorer.Hindsight is a beautiful thing, let me assure you.īut anyway – let’s start with a list of the requirements we had for our new shiny Windows 10 internet kiosk. After all, in the immortal words of Andy Wood and Jim Moyle “how hard can it be?” So I wasn’t particularly bothered when I came across the (first) instance I’d seen of someone wanting this on Windows 10 running Microsoft’s new browser, Edge, rather than the old warhorse Internet Explorer. The idea is that users are given a throwaway, cut-down machine that provides nothing but basic access to a browser for idly leafing through the goodness of the modern web. There are a raft of third-party tools that were used to enable this functionality for those of who couldn’t be bothered to spend the time to lock them down. I can recall building many a kiosk on Windows 7 using the imaginatively-titled Internet Explorer “kiosk mode”.
We’re all familiar with the use of Windows PCs as internet browsing kiosks.
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