RE : Kinko's
Actually, No.
In Kinko's computer rental environments, the distribution is W2K, with account privelidges as you describe, to keep people from running amok.
The policy is to re-image the stations once >weekly using disk images via Norton Ghost, mostly to toast accumulated cookies and other detritus. (in more recent bundles, cookies are auto-wiped on logout, which should have been the case from the begining.)
Now sometimes you'll find as a customer that a Kinko's person follows after you and re-images a machine, this generally means that the server has told him the machine is misbehaving, which usually has to do with the unreliable software they use for auto-updating the software from Kinko's HQ. Keep in mind also, that those stations run HUGE amounts of proprietary software to deal with ExpressPay (the part of the system that takes your money) which is prone to tripping on it's own guts and falling down in a heap. Kinko's people are basically trained to re-image if something goes wrong that rebooting doesn't fix.
If you've been in a branch or read of one where stations were re-imaged after every login, the author was either misinformed or more likely, the staff of the branch in question was not running a current bundle on their rental computers.
AIB
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RE : Kinko's Actually, No. In Kinko's computer rental environments, the distribution is W2K, with account privelidges as you describe, to keep people from running amok. The policy is to re-image the stations once >weekly using disk images via Norton Ghost, mostly to toast accumulated cookies and other detritus. (in more recent bundles, cookies are auto-wiped on logout, which should have been the case from the begining.) Now sometimes you'll find as a customer that a Kinko's person follows after you and re-images a machine, this generally means that the server has told him the machine is misbehaving, which usually has to do with the unreliable software they use for auto-updating the software from Kinko's HQ. Keep in mind also, that those stations run HUGE amounts of proprietary software to deal with ExpressPay (the part of the system that takes your money) which is prone to tripping on it's own guts and falling down in a heap. Kinko's people are basically trained to re-image if something goes wrong that rebooting doesn't fix. If you've been in a branch or read of one where stations were re-imaged after every login, the author was either misinformed or more likely, the staff of the branch in question was not running a current bundle on their rental computers. AIB