Features of HP ThinShell include the following:
-You can choose to customize and use the built-in ThinShell interface or specify an entirely different shell program.
-Using your administrator credentials, you can customize the ThinShell interface and settings from within a standard user account.
-ThinShell can be used in conjunction with Cloud Connection Manager to simplify Kiosk Mode deployments for multiple standard users.
Download can be done here (64-bit or 32-bit)
Installation is very easy, and on HP thin clients it's already there.
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| User interface, choose buttons |
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| Applications for shell replacement |
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| Control Panel items available |
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| Default website to show |
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| Default behavior when process stops |
After reboot you will see changes immediately! It's like ThinKiosk but then integrated by default. Very nice to see some progress here.
When using ThinShell you can setup thin clients very easy. Just use HP Device Manager (or ConfigMgr) for capturing, deploying and managing thin clients afterwards.
Nice. I'm updating our T610s. HP Hotkey filter works now so we can FINALLY block CTRL+ALT+DEL. ThinShell v1 was very buggy. I'll try this instead of hacking the shell http://www.alexmags.com/infra/2014/12/30/vmware-view-client-as-desktop-shell/
ReplyDeleteI also like ThinKiosk
I like ThinKiosk as well, but ThinShell is not that bad even. Thanks for mentioning.
DeleteAny app you launch from thinshell is forced to be maximised. This makes View Client 5.4.0 look weird. Workaround launch wscript.exe to launch a wrapper to launch the app normal size.
ReplyDeleteThe HP branding from v1 is gone. You can kind of brand it by setting default site to an intranet set that shows a wallpaper. Like this
html
head
style
html {
width:100%;
height:100%;
background:#000 url(logo.png) center center no-repeat;
}
style
head
body
body
html
Thank you for the post; I'm working on a custom image for the HP T620 thin clients and Thin Shell will be useful I think.
ReplyDeleteI can users allow to download, but the cant open the folder.
ReplyDeleteI would like to allow them to download, and execute the downloaded files, just to install them to 1 specific directory, so they can update 1 specific program (its decentral and different for every user what they would like to use in that program)
Do you have an idea how? (im dutch)
I can users allow to download, but the cant open the folder.
ReplyDeleteI would like to allow them to download, and execute the downloaded files, just to install them to 1 specific directory, so they can update 1 specific program (its decentral and different for every user what they would like to use in that program)
Do you have an idea how? (im dutch)
Sorry, question is not clear to me..
DeleteI downloaded the latest version and can't find the end of session options. I was looking to restart auto-started application option for the Web browser. Any ideas?
ReplyDeleteI used the kioskmode with autoshutdown. Now I can't access the Administrator account anymore. Any idea how to fix this?
ReplyDeleteJust start with the SHIFT button (better late then never)
DeleteHello, how i can disable ctrl+alt+del on my thin cliente and passe it to my citrix session? Regards
ReplyDeleteNuno Nunes
Guess you need to configure Citrix policy for that.
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