windows steady state killed my pc. i cannot get it to reboot successfully after tuning off at night.

Do not download Microsoft Steady State, I strangled my PC. I was on the telephone for hours with a Microsoft Tech and we still were unable to restore my PC to a working state. I plan to complain to MS and to the FCC regarding microsoft practices. This was my business PC and now I am frustrated. They stated they will call me back on Monday to resume technical support. I need my PC now.

To Allen and Deborah:
How did it “kill” or “strangled” your pc’s? I’m thinking about installing it on a couple of pc’s at my place of business. I’ve heard nothing but great things about this product, but then again it IS a microsoft product so I know there are problems to occur. I would like to know what happend?

Does anyone really KNOW what Microsoft Steady State does? I mean, aside from what Microsoft says it does. I think Bill is awfully interested in counting up the revenue he’s lost before he retires, because there’s much initiative at Microsoft to validate that we are all using “Genuine” copies of Microsoft products. I think that means “Genuinely registered”, nothing more. Who can prove to me that Steady State is not just a red herring sent to fix more of Vista’s issues while actually setting up a huge database in Redmond showing software usage practices among the world Microsoft community? And who cares, except Bill G.?

Steady state has killed my computer. It will not boot up off the recovery disk, it gets to the logon screen and asks me to click on user name and all user icons are missing, it tells me to contact the system administrator but there never was one. I cannot get logged on in Safe mode, debug, booting off the CD Recovery disk. Someone once said to me the best computer virus was Microsoft Windows, but I think MS “Steady state” wins hands down.
Can anyone tell me how to get back into my computer? I tried the above stuff and a reboot off my Recovery Disk. Nothing.

I think you need to know what you’re doing, before you install the MS Steady State. It is a great program to use if you’re setting up an internet cafe or Kisok for multiple users. To get to the administrator logon, simply press CTRL-ALT-DEL twice and you will get a log on screen where you can change the username and login as the administrator. If you didn’t set that up befroe installing, then you have an issue. Again, understand the program before you install it.

Thanks Troy - great advice.

I think that’s what the library here uses.

Go to load a Flash applet. “Flash is not installed”

Try to install Flash Player: “You can’t do that”

Try to check my email “This is not an email terminal”

Try to sign into Yahoo Web Messenger “You are not authorized to install that ActiveX control.”
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Public internet terminals with Windows are essentially useless by the time you’d locked them down enough to prevent a major spyware infestation.

The schools here gave up trying to use that and rolled out a customized Fedora called Userful DiscoverStation (Library in Marion uses it too)

Userful uses terminal multiplexing (easy to set up in Linux) to turn one tower with 5 dual output video cards into 10 workstations.

Good for the environment, less licensing to screw around with, less PCs to buy.

I really wish that the public services would quit screwing around with Windows and Microsoft formats, I’ve mulled over filing a lawsuit against our library for that.

Windows SteadyState doesen’t let me have the welcome screen, instead it uses the classic login way. i can’t get i back to the welcome screen evan after uninstalling it. does anyone know how to fix this