See
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Desktop-Enhancements/Clocks-Time-Management/DoNotDisturb.shtml
This might be something worth looking into and it is free. It is all I
could find as a software application blocker.
I know there are ways to monitor what is going on on several computers
in real time from a single location. I'll look into that and pass on
anything I might find.
Tom
Frederick Navarro wrote:
> Hi Tom, thanks. We cannot deactivate the usb ports since our students would
> still use flash drives for their exercises and projects. The only concern I
> have are for the games. Though I might have said before with what kind of
> games are played which were resource hungry, but some would bring in trial
> version of yahoo games (i.e. scrabble, textwist,etc) so my question here
> lies as to how we could avoid students from playing while classes are going
> on. Thanks
>
> Frederick
>
> On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 10:07 AM, Thomas Mayer <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
>
>
>> Just an initial thought. If you do not need active USB ports, you may be
>> able to deactivate them through the BIOS and then password protect the BIOS
>> (which you probably have already done).
>>
>> You could use Tweak UI to limit the hard drives being recognized by XP to
>> only the internal drives, but the students will likely not take long to
>> figure that one out.
>>
>> BTW With only 256MB of RAM, you are already limiting the games that can
>> be played.
>>
>> Tom
>>
>>
>>
>>
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