My personal experience with HP ThinShell for Kiosk Mode

Because my mainly focus is on endpoints, I'm doing a lot with fat, thin and virtual clients and mobile devices. This time I want to mention HP thin clients, which have some nice software onboard by default. There is Cloud Connection Manager, ThinShell and Universal Write Filter (UWF) for example. ThinShell is a client automation tool that enables Kiosk Mode (shell replacement) functionality for standard users (non-administrators).

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.

User interface, choose buttons

Applications for shell replacement

Control Panel items available

Default website to show

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.