Lock down old pc w/View

[MarkWorthington]

We are migrating our new purchases to include slim clients, but we can not afford to do all of them at once.  I am a system admin at a college and will need to setup a lab with older machines to go directly into VMware View to run the virtualized desktop.  Does anyone have a recommendations/faq/instructions/references that help lock down a machine so that the end user can only use the virtual desktop and can not get out of it?

[larsonm]

There's a document that discusses this exact topic:

PC Re-purposing with VMware View client for Windows.pdf

[ryan268]

I've got a thinstation image that works pretty much perfectly for view. If you PM me i can set you up with a image.

[erickbm]

We use SecureLockdown for our old computers. It makes the computer pretty much useless outside of what you configure for the user to access. We created a local user with no password and configured Windows to auto login with that user. When the computer boots up, the user only has a desktop icon to the view client.

http://shop.inteset.com/lock-down-windows-with-inteset-secure-lockdown

It seems to fit our use case.