First off, my apologies if I posted this twice. I started to post this a couple days ago but cant remember if I followed through with the post and now I cant find it here. Disclaimer over. :) I am setting up an internet cafe and I want my members to only have access to what is on the desktop (so I have disabled the start button). I was wondering if I could create an html page with my cafe's theme and make clickable links to the computers programs and games. I have searched for days for something but cant find anything. I also dont want a third party program that would suck up valuable memory by running in the background. Is it possible? Thank you to anyone who replies.

I forgot to mention that the required html page would obviously be on the desktop and not on the net. Aussie

Why not create your html page, store it on the hard disk and create an icon for it on the desktop? All your active links on the page would then be accessible to your members. Is THAT what you wanted, or sumfink else?

Hey Aussie, Found this for you Click Here and make your way to bookmark wizard It will convert all your favs to a html web page, you could do some tweaking with the page to point the link to where you want them to go. Or this Click Here , this guy is a geunis Post back if you need any more help HTHY

just a stab in the dark here... make your links as \\computername\file-location.html

OK Aussie, I'll try to condense this a little bit. Read the whole thing first just to make sure you understand my description. Since you're running Winxp, make sure IIS is loaded. Created a new folder (don't care where you put it on your HDD). Fire up your html editor (Dreamweaver, FrontPage, notepad, etc). Create a single html file (design it to your own specifications) and save it in the folder you made. Open up your Control Panel => Administrative Tools => Internet Service Manager. Expand your navigation tree until you can see Default Web Site. Right-click on Default Web Site and select New => Virtual Directory (yep...another damn wizard). Select a name for your site => NEXT => browse to your folder you created with your html file => NEXT => leave default selections => NEXT => FINISH. To access the file for testing purposes, open up your browser and type http:///. This SHOULD pull up your created web page. Now pull up your Desktop properties => Background Tab. Browse to your created webpage and select it as the background => APPLY => OK. Things to remember: 1. The IIS portion isn't absolutely necessary. Creating a web page and utilizing it as a background doesn't need the IIS portion. I added it because if you're using the same background for several workstations, publishing it and pointing the other workstations to the site allows you to modify only one time and have it propogate down. 2. If you're going to use a single background image with your web page, take into account what resolution you're planning to use. Personally, I think taking a single jpeg and stretching it to 1600x1200 is just poor form. 3. If you go the route of publishing from one system down to all the others, setup syncronization. Less work for you. Don't get too creative with java, dhtml, custom css, etc. Each one will slow your workstations down more and more. I may definitely have left some gaps. Please feel free to ask anything if something isn't clear.