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Deep Freeze is a security and computer maintenance application that restores the hard drive contents to an original state after each boot.

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Windows 7 + Deep Freeze - I'm stuck in an endless reboot loop

I have the following setup: Windows 7 Ultimate Deep Freeze I "thawed" my machine last night and performed a Windows Update. The update is having issues (it gets stuck at 32%, fails, and restarts my machine). When it reboots it attempts it again,…
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Disk Recovery Software and Digital Rights Management

We are running Windows 7 - 64-bit with Windows Media Player 12 and Overdrive Media Console. All of our PCs are "frozen" with DeepFreeze which is similar to CleanSlate or any other rollback/disk recovery applications upon reboot. On public PCs, this…
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Computer crashes / automatically reboots on opening Facebook in any browser

For my work in a library I administer a couple of pcs, which can be used by visitors to browse the web. I keep seeing a very strange issue, that leaves me completely stomped. When a user goes on Facebook the computer freezes for a couple of seconds,…
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Dropbox keep on syncing on restart

I installed Dropbox in "D drive" and I have DeepFreeze install for "C drive". With DeepFreeze if I restart my computer, my computer will automatically come to previous state, as I need to install any important software or files by turning it off…
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Uninstall Deep Freeze manually using the Windows registry

How do I uninstall Deep Freeze manually using registry?
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Suggestions for setting up a Linux machine's environment like DeepFreeze does

For out office, we need a fleet of Kali laptops that we can bring to clients. The laptops need to be able to function as if they were running something like "DeepFreeze" by Faronics. What this means is, we have (for example) a 120GB drive, with at…
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Why is the value of ErrorLevel not updating?

I am trying to write a subroutine in batch to determine if a computer has Deep freeze installed or is safely unfrozen. (For those who don't know, Deep Freeze is a program that is commonly used to revert/prevent and disk changes in an Operating…
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SteadyState alternatives for Vista

On their Vista PCs, my library uses Windows SteadyState to discard changes patrons make to system. Recently, one of those machines had to be re-imaged with stock version of Vista that came with the machine. Steadystate is no longer available from…
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Cannot do anything on SSD. It keeps coming back to some kind of "Restore point"

Yesterday (Monday) I returned to work and strangely my PC was inside the BIOS (I left it on on Friday when leaving). I continued using it normally without giving it more notice, but it turns out that there was a time when I had to restart, and when…
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Windows 10 - how to disable windows auto update, while using deepfreeze?

We use deepfreeze, which is a software for cybercafe, public locations to allow the user to use the PC but on reboot it clean everything and goes back to our old stable setup. Now that windows 10 finally arrived and using deepfreeze is making life…
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A system with Deep Freeze loses data on non-frozen drives

My client sells an industrial application that runs on a custom system with multiple drives and partitions on those drives. Drive C: is frozen with Deep Freeze, but the other drives are not frozen. Drives D-F are used for data storage and retrieval…
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Removing deep freeze enterprise

I have a second hand business computer that has deep freeze enterprise, and I do not know the password nor access to the OTP. I've looked around and have found instructions for the standard version, of which the steps do not work. So is there a way…
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How to get Deep Freeze Enterprise Console to report the PC (local) it's installed on?

This is Jan Sher, I simply wanted to know how I could get my own Computer to report into the Console of Deep Freeze Enterprise. I did install Deep Freeze by the Workstation Install program created in the Deep Freeze Administrator, but it still…
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Deleted Deep Freeze installation folder but Deep Freeze is still active

Faronics Deep Freeze was installed in my computer, I wanted to get rid of it so I thawed the PC for some reboots—5 or 6 I don't remember—then rebooted and big mistake: I deleted the installation folder instead of uninstalling it first. I thought it…
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Would it be possible to swap system restore points on different brands of computers?

So I have a ThinkPad computer that I've installed a program called "Deep Freeze" which restores your computer to the "Frozen" state. I also have a Toshiba computer with no Deep Freeze on it. My question is that would it be possible to creat a system…
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