How to set up a password for kiosk mode user in W11?

Question

Hi All,

I have set up 2 kiosk devices [windows 11] to display a trello board and another device to display a ticketing tool dashboard for the support team.

1. Is there anyway I can setup a password for the kiosk mode. Currently when I exit from local account and log into kiosk it takes me straight to the dashboard.

Can I add a password? From settings all it allows me to set up a password for the local user. and no option for the kiosk user.

2. The ticketing tool kiosk is setup to load the webpage from edge. The data in dashboard will be updated only on browser refresh. since kiosk cant store cookies, it logs out the user every 15 minutes [browser refresh is set for 15 minutes]. which is not an ideal situation as they support team has to enter the password every 15 mins. any alternate way to this?

Thanks,

Akhila

Answer 1

Hi @akhila nelson ,

To set up a password for the kiosk mode, you can try to set up a password for the kiosk mode user profile.

1. Use your administrator user profile.
2. Search for the settings called "Edit local users and groups" in Control Panel
3. Under "Users", you should find your kiosk mode user profile. By default, the name is like kioskUser0.
4. Right click on the kiosk mode user profile, and select "Set Password...".
5. Select "Proceed" if there's any prompt.
6. Set up the password.

For the second question, I'm afraid you'll have to modify how update is implemented in the dashboard, maybe making it dynamic. There's no proper solution to deal with this type of situation in Kiosk mode.

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