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Re:Apple’s Devices Lose Luster in American Classrooms by Cthulhu_ on Friday March 03, 2017 @04:54AM (#13781803)
Back in my day (this was like 10-15 years ago), the Windows machines at an elementary school I worked at for a bit had a piece of software installed that undid any changes done to the computer after a reboot. IIRC that was more effective than locking the system down with all kinds of hacks.

(we famously circumvented a block on using the browser in a very locked down windows machine by opening up Notepad or whatever, opening a file, right-clicking and managing to open an Explorer screen, which changes to IE when entering an URL)

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Re:Apple’s Devices Lose Luster in American Classrooms by Terr_ on Friday March 03, 2017 @05:09AM (#13781860)
I'm going to guess that was Faronics Deepfreeze. I was a big fan of it as a student and later as a part-time admin, simply because it seemed a better relationship between administrator and user.
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Re:Apple’s Devices Lose Luster in American Classrooms by lotsofpulp on Friday March 03, 2017 @08:14AM (#13782600)
Windows XP had Windows SteadyState software that did the same thing.
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