How to make a touch terminal (Internet kiosk)?

Question

Windows

There is a monoblock with a touch screen and Win7 on board. There is a task to make an Internet kiosk out of it, allowing the user to go to 5 predefined sites. Access to all other sites and programs on the computer must be closed.
Advise how to do this by the OS itself or with the help of third-party software, preferably free, of course.

Answer 1

In the system, any program like "parental control", in which only the necessary 5 sites are allowed + firefox with the addition of R-kiosk.

Answer 2

You can do this: Opera with the kiosk mode enabled, a small program that restarts the opera when it closes, and Squid to limit the user's adventures. A small program is written instead of a shell. I have something similar, but on Linux.

Answer 3

Banning sites can be done manually in the hosts file
. And I think it's worth writing a wrapper program that will only work with the browser to prevent all possible user actions.

Answer 4

1. Using local policies, we prohibit the launch of all programs except the necessary ones.
2. Install the Firewall and configure it to pass only the necessary addresses and protocols.
3. Either set your shell as a shell, or set your favorite browser in kiosk mode as a shell. (This could be a Firefox add-on for R-kiosk or Opera, or Chrome, etc.)

Answer 5

If we consider the browser, it is best to use Chome for this:
Create a shortcut to the browser (I have it installed here by default: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe") and specify after the quotes in the properties key and a link to your site in this form --kiosk
In the full version, I had this entry: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --kiosk metalvision.ru
Also pay attention in case of copying to the bitness of the system and correct it yourself (C:\Program Files (x86)) to your bitness.
For such a solution, the extensions have a ready-made module called KIOSK (pop-up keyboard when the cursor is placed in the input field)
Another optimal solution is to use a ready-made browser for touch systems, there are many of them, from the Site Kiosk program to StarBrowser, both are good, only the first one is expensive, the second one is free to download from it-innovations.ru/katalog/glavnaya/programmnoe-obe... there are many other ready-made solutions. The advantage of such programs is the implementation of the functionality in the form of a return to the main page after a certain period of inactivity and an already built-in algorithm for working with one or more sites. Well, the most important thing is that the dialog boxes from the OS and other programs do not make their way through these browsers.