HP Easy Shell - Administrator Guide

Obtaining and opening HP Easy Shell

HP Easy Shell is typically preinstalled on HP thin clients. It can also be downloaded or updated via HP

ThinUpdate.

NOTE: For more information, see the administrator guide for HP ThinUpdate.

HP Easy Shell contains the following two components:

● HP Easy Shell—This is the tile-based, kiosk-style user interface that allows standard users to launch

applications, connections, and websites as congured by the administrator.

● HP Easy Shell Conguration—This is the conguration utility used by the administrator to congure the

experience for standard users.

Opening HP Easy Shell within Windows

Follow the instructions outlined here to open HP Easy Shell within Windows.

▲ Windows Embedded Standard 7—Select Start, select All Programs, select HP, and then select HP Easy

Shell.

Windows Embedded 8 Standard and Windows Embedded 8.1 Industry Pro—Select HP Easy Shell at the

Start screen.

Windows 10 IoT Enterprise—Type Easy Shell into the taskbar search box, and then select the HP

Easy Shell app.

Opening HP Easy Shell

Conguration from outside HP Easy Shell

Follow the instructions outlined here to open HP Easy Shell Conguration from outside HP Easy Shell.

▲ Open Control Panel and select HP Easy Shell Conguration.

NOTE: You will be prompted for administrator credentials if you are logged on to Windows as a

standard user.

Opening the

Conguration from within HP Easy Shell

Follow the instructions outlined here to open HP Easy Shell Conguration from within HP Easy Shell to make

conguration changes without having to log o to the standard user account.

1. In HP Easy Shell, select Admin.

2. Use the User Account Control dialog to log on as an administrator.

3. Congure changes as necessary, and then select Apply.

4. Select Exit to return to HP Easy Shell.

Using HP Easy Shell

The following information is the typical process for using HP Easy Shell to congure the environment for

standard users.

The typical process for using HP Easy Shell to congure the environment for standard users is as follows:

Chapter 1 Getting started