eVisitor KIOSK Installation Guide
Note: For best results, be sure you have a clean install of windows and a reliable internet connection. These are the top two causes of problems with eVisitor Kiosk. If you are having troubles with Kiosk running for several days in a row, reset Windows to factory defaults and be sure your internet connection is not timing out.
1) MS Surface Pro settings (Windows 10):
- Set "Screen resolution" to defaults
- Settings, System:
- Size of Text: 200% (recommended)
- Resolution 1824 x 2736 (recommended)
- Set "power" to always on
- Settings, System, Power: ...
- Set bluetooth adapter to stay on (see zebra instructions for details)
- Turn "tablet mode" off
- Click lower right-hand corner (notifications). Turn OFF tablet mode.
- Settings, System, Tablet mode, Use desktop mode
- Turn "MS on-screen keyboard" on
- R-click on the taskbar
- Select "show touch keyboard button"
- Turn off People and Windows ink and Cortana
- Set "MS on-screen keyboard" to not automatically pop-up
- Settings, devices, typing, Touch Keyboard: Show the touch… OFF
The next two require admin rights
- Turn "edge swipe" off
- Search, “edit group policy”
- Local computer policy
- Computer Config
- Administrative templates
- Windows components
- Edge UI
- Allow Edge swipe: Disable
- Set "AutoLogon" to on (optional) (details)
- regedit to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
- Set AutoAdminLogon to 1
2) Install eVisitor Kiosk ( link )
3) AutoStart Kiosk
- Open the startup folder: Windows-R, Shell:Startup, OK
- Copy the desktop icon into the startup folder.
- or regedit to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
- Edit, new, string value:
- name=kiosk
- Data="c:\users\<username>\Desktop\eVisitor Kiosk.appref-ms"
4) Wireless Zebra
5) Turbo Photo DL reader