Deep Freeze Publisher's Description
Helps eliminate workstation damage and downtime
Once Deep Freeze is installed on a workstation, any changes made to the
computer—regardless of whether they are accidental or malicious—are
never permanent. Deep Freeze provides immediate immunity from many of
the problems that plague computers today—inevitable configuration drift,
accidental system misconfiguration, malicious software activity, and
incidental system degradation.
Deep Freeze ensures computers are absolutely bulletproof, even when
users have full access to system software and settings. Users get to
enjoy a pristine and unrestricted computing experience, while IT
personnel are freed from tedious helpdesk requests, constant system
maintenance, and continuous configuration drift.
Balancing Security with Productivity
Deep Freeze is the only solution that effectively balances workstation
security with user productivity. By mapping user and application data to
a Thawed (unprotected) partition or drive, users are able to store
their documents, pictures, music, etc., while still enjoying the total
system consistency that Deep Freeze offers.
Flexible Resiliency
Deep Freeze offers flexible scheduling options that enable IT
administrators to easily create automated update and maintenance
periods. Schedule Deep Freeze to allow system and virus definition
updates to occur from predefined times—either with the Deep Freeze
Enterprise Console or using your preferred third-party desktop
management solution.
Computers in education environments are among the toughest IT
environments to manage and secure. The large number of daily users, the
limited resources of on-site staff, and the immense number of computers
and labs that technology personnel must manage all come together to
create an IT 'perfect storm'. IT personnel cannot afford to have
computer systems down for long–students use computers in schools to
conduct research and complete assignments; instructors need computers to
record grades and organize their lessons; administrative staff need
their workstations to complete their job function.
Computer Labs
Deep Freeze makes it easy for IT administrators to create bulletproof
computer labs that deliver trouble-free computing to instructors and
students. Deep Freeze ensures that students are able to use public
access computers with the assurance that their session will be free from
accidental system misconfiguration, malicious software activity, and
incidental system degradation. Personal information is never retained by
the computer, which means IT personnel don’t need to worry about
desktop computers becoming congested with student projects and files.
Computing environments become easier to manage, and expensive computer
assets are kept running at 100% capacity.
Deep Freeze's ability to prevent stability degradation ensures that
scholastic computer labs are able to provide the same experience over
and over again regardless of the user on the desktop–an important
prerequisite to successfully teaching a classroom concept.
Administrative Machines
Deep Freeze is not just for student machines; it can also be used on
instructor and employee computers. Since Deep Freeze offers flexible
options for saving user data, it becomes easy to secure a workstation
with total resiliency while still enabling users to save their work.
Instructors and staff enjoy the assurance of knowing their computers
will never fail them, and IT personnel are freed from having to deal
with tedious helpdesk requests.
Libraries
Deep Freeze ensures that students and staff enjoy a trouble-free library
computing experience. Students are able to use library computers with
the assurance that their session will be free from malicious software
and system slowdowns. IT personnel can rest easy with the knowledge that
Deep Freeze makes media computers immune from system slowdowns and
software corruption caused by students accessing online media resources
during their research.
1. Deep Freeze is installed on my
machine. I would like to uninstall it. How is this done?
To uninstall the software Deep Freeze must first be disabled and then
uninstalled.
To disable Deep Freeze:
1. Hold down the shift key and double-click on the Deep Freeze icon.
Alternatively, you can press Crtl-Alt-Shift-F6. or Shift + Double click
the deep freeze icon on systray .You should now see a password dialog.
2. Enter your password and click OK. If you have not yet entered a
password you should be able to click OK without entering anything. You
should now see a dialog with boot options.
3. Select "Boot thawed" and click OK. This will disable Deep Freeze on
the next reboot.
4. Reboot your machine. After the machine reboots you are ready to
uninstall Deep Freeze.
To uninstall:
1. Locate the installation file you used to install Deep Freeze to this
machine. By default the name of this file is called "DF5Std.exe" for
versions 5.X and "DF6Std.exe" for versions 6.X.
2. Run the installation file (DF5Std.exe or DF6Std.exe).
3. Select the option to "Uninstall"
4. The software should uninstall and reboot the machine. When the
machine reboots, Deep Freeze should be uninstalled. Windows 7
Compatible (Deep Freeze Standard 7- Spoiler:
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