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Disable the History button
12:08 PM EDT 10/18/04
One of my concerns is that patrons are able to view the "History" of what has been navigated during other patrons adventures on the Internet Explorer. We have been able to disable the Print button (its now considered Print Preview) along with some other buttons, but it is really painful when nosy patrons are able to see what previous people before have done on the internet.
This seems to be a really hard solution to find online. I know it probably has something to do with the registry - maybe even adding something to the group policy. Has any other libraries found a solution to this?
We do not use any filtering software.
Thanks,
Ryan
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Re: Disable the History button
9:51 AM EDT 10/20/04
as a reply to Ryan McCloskey.
Thank you for your reply.
We have discovered that setting the history for 0 days is much better than what its default is set for, 20 days. My only question for you is this:
You said "So we make sure each patron logs out, or we do it for them, and the history is erased. This way, patrons can still use the history button to go back to sites they've visited, but not the previous person's history."
When I logged out of the current profile, and then logged back in, the history still stayed there. Only because it is set not to keep the history for more than that current day. Do you have a special log-in, log-out tool? Is it something like where your patrons are required to do something each time they want to log in? Enter a PIN?
We are running Windows XP as well as Windows 2000 with Internet Explorer. I am going to go around to all the machines and set it so that they record 0 days of History, but I'm still confused on how your log-in, log-out technique erases the history for that particular day even when you acknowledged that IE keeps the history for that session.
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Re: Disable the History button
12:35 PM EDT 10/28/04
as a reply to Ryan McCloskey.
What kind of security are you using on these XP and 2000 machines? Are they on a domain or standalones?
History, temp internet files, etc are all stored in the profiles. You could use something like the PAC Security Tool, or even just making mandatory profiles would delete all history and saved files at log-off.
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