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Hi everyone I hope this is in the right place. Let me start by describing our environment. We have deep freeze installed on about 80 machine (2 labs) this is because these are networking labs and the students need admin rights.

Deep Freeze allows us to 'revert back' to an image even if the students break the current one. The problem is the machines are frozen so we cannot push out software through SCCM or apply windows updates without doing it in maintenance windows. So we need to be able to revert machines and not be limited when pushing software.We are looking for alternatives and I was hoping I could get a few suggestions here. Some ideas we thought might work are a VHD, modified for of steady-state, or REG edits to only allow certain things to be run. I'm open to any suggestions. Thanks for any help! Hi everyone I hope this is in the right place.

Let me start by describing our environment. We have deep freeze installed on about 80 machine (2 labs) this is because these are networking labs and the students need admin rights. Deep Freeze allows us to 'revert back' to an image even if the students break the current one.

The problem is the machines are frozen so we cannot push out software through SCCM or apply windows updates without doing it in maintenance windows. So we need to be able to revert machines and not be limited when pushing software.We are looking for alternatives and I was hoping I could get a few suggestions here. Some ideas we thought might work are a VHD, modified for of steady-state, or REG edits to only allow certain things to be run.

I'm open to any suggestions. Thanks for any help!I will give full disclosure and say I've never used this software, but this sounds like it will accommodate pushing new software out and windows updates 'easily': Just keep in mind this works on a filesystem level and not a kernel level. I'm no security expert, so maybe you know a little bit more about why that might be important?Other options could be virtualization software? But I'm not aware of any that will restore their prior state on reboot or logoff, so you're kind of stuck at the same spot there.You might be able to use an enterprise network monitor and create a whitelist of applications and files, but I'm not sure you can configure that to allow what you need while also supplying sufficient protection, ie from downloads, thumb drives (if you're a university, students will almost always want to use these with lab PCs), or web-based applications that will run in the browser. The whole configuration will probably be more trouble than it's worth in that case, and you won't even have the same level of protection as you do now, which might drive up support calls (and therefore cost). Hi everyone I hope this is in the right place.

Let me start by describing our environment. We have deep freeze installed on about 80 machine (2 labs) this is because these are networking labs and the students need admin rights. Deep Freeze allows us to 'revert back' to an image even if the students break the current one.

The problem is the machines are frozen so we cannot push out software through SCCM or apply windows updates without doing it in maintenance windows. So we need to be able to revert machines and not be limited when pushing software.We are looking for alternatives and I was hoping I could get a few suggestions here.

Some ideas we thought might work are a VHD, modified for of steady-state, or REG edits to only allow certain things to be run. I'm open to any suggestions. Thanks for any help!If this is a networking lab, you should be able to configure a network boot. Have all of the machines boot from a single disk image and you'll cut your work down by a factor of 80. Then configure each workstation with a small local storage so that student work will persist. Hi everyone I hope this is in the right place. Let me start by describing our environment.

We have deep freeze installed on about 80 machine (2 labs) this is because these are networking labs and the students need admin rights. Deep Freeze allows us to 'revert back' to an image even if the students break the current one. The problem is the machines are frozen so we cannot push out software through SCCM or apply windows updates without doing it in maintenance windows. So we need to be able to revert machines and not be limited when pushing software.We are looking for alternatives and I was hoping I could get a few suggestions here. Some ideas we thought might work are a VHD, modified for of steady-state, or REG edits to only allow certain things to be run. I'm open to any suggestions. Thanks for any help!If this is a networking lab, you should be able to configure a network boot.

Have all of the machines boot from a single disk image and you'll cut your work down by a factor of 80. Then configure each workstation with a small local storage so that student work will persist.Wouldn't that be incredibly slow? Hi everyone I hope this is in the right place. Let me start by describing our environment.

We have deep freeze installed on about 80 machine (2 labs) this is because these are networking labs and the students need admin rights. Deep Freeze allows us to 'revert back' to an image even if the students break the current one. The problem is the machines are frozen so we cannot push out software through SCCM or apply windows updates without doing it in maintenance windows.

So we need to be able to revert machines and not be limited when pushing software.We are looking for alternatives and I was hoping I could get a few suggestions here. Some ideas we thought might work are a VHD, modified for of steady-state, or REG edits to only allow certain things to be run. I'm open to any suggestions. Thanks for any help!If this is a networking lab, you should be able to configure a network boot. Have all of the machines boot from a single disk image and you'll cut your work down by a factor of 80.

Then configure each workstation with a small local storage so that student work will persist.Wouldn't that be incredibly slow?That depends on the particular pre-boot solution that is used. There are PXE solutions available which support boot image checksum and versioning. They should only download a new OS image if a new one is available.One commercial solution that I was able to find is CCBoot. It'll be a bit expensive at about $900 per month for 80 clients though. There is a free trial available though, I would recommend looking into it to see if it meets your needs. Hi everyone I hope this is in the right place.

Let me start by describing our environment. We have deep freeze installed on about 80 machine (2 labs) this is because these are networking labs and the students need admin rights.

Deep Freeze allows us to 'revert back' to an image even if the students break the current one. The problem is the machines are frozen so we cannot push out software through SCCM or apply windows updates without doing it in maintenance windows. So we need to be able to revert machines and not be limited when pushing software.We are looking for alternatives and I was hoping I could get a few suggestions here. Some ideas we thought might work are a VHD, modified for of steady-state, or REG edits to only allow certain things to be run.

I'm open to any suggestions. Thanks for any help!If this is a networking lab, you should be able to configure a network boot. Have all of the machines boot from a single disk image and you'll cut your work down by a factor of 80. Then configure each workstation with a small local storage so that student work will persist.Wouldn't that be incredibly slow?That depends on the particular pre-boot solution that is used. There are PXE solutions available which support boot image checksum and versioning.

They should only download a new OS image if a new one is available.One commercial solution that I was able to find is CCBoot. It'll be a bit expensive at about $900 per month for 80 clients though. There is a free trial available though, I would recommend looking into it to see if it meets your needs.Thank you for explaining, this area is not exactly my area of expertise, but I have a basic knowledge. I was looking at CCBoot as well, but I know we had that at my high school for our CAD workstations and it caused nothing but problems.

I don't know if it was the setup or the old version or just really unreliable hardware (it was a bit underpowered for the applications we were using), but the PCs were down a lot with problems, leading to issues getting projects finished during the year. Hi everyone I hope this is in the right place. Let me start by describing our environment. We have deep freeze installed on about 80 machine (2 labs) this is because these are networking labs and the students need admin rights. Deep Freeze allows us to 'revert back' to an image even if the students break the current one. The problem is the machines are frozen so we cannot push out software through SCCM or apply windows updates without doing it in maintenance windows. So we need to be able to revert machines and not be limited when pushing software.We are looking for alternatives and I was hoping I could get a few suggestions here.

Some ideas we thought might work are a VHD, modified for of steady-state, or REG edits to only allow certain things to be run. I'm open to any suggestions. Thanks for any help!If this is a networking lab, you should be able to configure a network boot. Have all of the machines boot from a single disk image and you'll cut your work down by a factor of 80. Then configure each workstation with a small local storage so that student work will persist.Wouldn't that be incredibly slow?That depends on the particular pre-boot solution that is used.

There are PXE solutions available which support boot image checksum and versioning. They should only download a new OS image if a new one is available.One commercial solution that I was able to find is CCBoot. It'll be a bit expensive at about $900 per month for 80 clients though. There is a free trial available though, I would recommend looking into it to see if it meets your needs.Thank you for explaining, this area is not exactly my area of expertise, but I have a basic knowledge. I was looking at CCBoot as well, but I know we had that at my high school for our CAD workstations and it caused nothing but problems. I don't know if it was the setup or the old version or just really unreliable hardware (it was a bit underpowered for the applications we were using), but the PCs were down a lot with problems, leading to issues getting projects finished during the year.That's a pretty common trend in most high schools regardless of the software used.

Students abuse computers to no end, and most school districts can't afford to hire competent technical staff. PICNIC definitely applies.Of course, you could always try Windows Deployment Services which is available with recent editions of Windows Server.

Hi everyone I hope this is in the right place. Let me start by describing our environment. We have deep freeze installed on about 80 machine (2 labs) this is because these are networking labs and the students need admin rights. Deep Freeze allows us to 'revert back' to an image even if the students break the current one.

The problem is the machines are frozen so we cannot push out software through SCCM or apply windows updates without doing it in maintenance windows. So we need to be able to revert machines and not be limited when pushing software.We are looking for alternatives and I was hoping I could get a few suggestions here. Some ideas we thought might work are a VHD, modified for of steady-state, or REG edits to only allow certain things to be run. I'm open to any suggestions. Thanks for any help!If this is a networking lab, you should be able to configure a network boot.

Have all of the machines boot from a single disk image and you'll cut your work down by a factor of 80. Then configure each workstation with a small local storage so that student work will persist.Wouldn't that be incredibly slow?That depends on the particular pre-boot solution that is used.

There are PXE solutions available which support boot image checksum and versioning. They should only download a new OS image if a new one is available.One commercial solution that I was able to find is CCBoot.

It'll be a bit expensive at about $900 per month for 80 clients though. There is a free trial available though, I would recommend looking into it to see if it meets your needs.Hey thanks for the input.

Is this sorta like a VDI setup. I do not have a lot of knowledge with it but it's defiantly an option. Hi everyone I hope this is in the right place.

Let me start by describing our environment. We have deep freeze installed on about 80 machine (2 labs) this is because these are networking labs and the students need admin rights. Deep Freeze allows us to 'revert back' to an image even if the students break the current one.

The problem is the machines are frozen so we cannot push out software through SCCM or apply windows updates without doing it in maintenance windows. So we need to be able to revert machines and not be limited when pushing software.We are looking for alternatives and I was hoping I could get a few suggestions here. Some ideas we thought might work are a VHD, modified for of steady-state, or REG edits to only allow certain things to be run. I'm open to any suggestions.

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Thanks for any help!I will give full disclosure and say I've never used this software, but this sounds like it will accommodate pushing new software out and windows updates 'easily': Just keep in mind this works on a filesystem level and not a kernel level. I'm no security expert, so maybe you know a little bit more about why that might be important?Other options could be virtualization software?

But I'm not aware of any that will restore their prior state on reboot or logoff, so you're kind of stuck at the same spot there.You might be able to use an enterprise network monitor and create a whitelist of applications and files, but I'm not sure you can configure that to allow what you need while also supplying sufficient protection, ie from downloads, thumb drives (if you're a university, students will almost always want to use these with lab PCs), or web-based applications that will run in the browser. The whole configuration will probably be more trouble than it's worth in that case, and you won't even have the same level of protection as you do now, which might drive up support calls (and therefore cost)Hi drapacioli thanks for the reply. I'll look into your software solution. Thanks for all the replies. Hi everyone I hope this is in the right place. Let me start by describing our environment. We have deep freeze installed on about 80 machine (2 labs) this is because these are networking labs and the students need admin rights.

Deep Freeze allows us to 'revert back' to an image even if the students break the current one. The problem is the machines are frozen so we cannot push out software through SCCM or apply windows updates without doing it in maintenance windows.

So we need to be able to revert machines and not be limited when pushing software.We are looking for alternatives and I was hoping I could get a few suggestions here. Some ideas we thought might work are a VHD, modified for of steady-state, or REG edits to only allow certain things to be run. I'm open to any suggestions. Thanks for any help!If this is a networking lab, you should be able to configure a network boot. Have all of the machines boot from a single disk image and you'll cut your work down by a factor of 80. Then configure each workstation with a small local storage so that student work will persist.Wouldn't that be incredibly slow?That depends on the particular pre-boot solution that is used. There are PXE solutions available which support boot image checksum and versioning.

They should only download a new OS image if a new one is available.One commercial solution that I was able to find is CCBoot. It'll be a bit expensive at about $900 per month for 80 clients though. There is a free trial available though, I would recommend looking into it to see if it meets your needs.Hey thanks for the input. Is this sorta like a VDI setup. I do not have a lot of knowledge with it but it's defiantly an option.It's not VDI. VDI is a throwback to the old mainframe days where a dumb terminal is used to remotely administrate a server. PXE network booting loads a small boot image from a file server and this boot image can then perform a large number of tasks including downloading a larger image to disk, downloading a larger image to memory (ramdisk style), performing maintenance, etc.

Hi everyone I hope this is in the right place. Let me start by describing our environment. We have deep freeze installed on about 80 machine (2 labs) this is because these are networking labs and the students need admin rights. Deep Freeze allows us to 'revert back' to an image even if the students break the current one. The problem is the machines are frozen so we cannot push out software through SCCM or apply windows updates without doing it in maintenance windows. So we need to be able to revert machines and not be limited when pushing software.We are looking for alternatives and I was hoping I could get a few suggestions here.

Some ideas we thought might work are a VHD, modified for of steady-state, or REG edits to only allow certain things to be run. I'm open to any suggestions. Thanks for any help!Hey Cody!

My name's Sam and I work at Horizon DataSys. Full disclosure.I just wanted to let you know we have a software you might be into called. Both of these will do what you need and more, including applying software changes and allowing for automated updates.

If you want to try it out send me a message and I'll set you up. If not, thank you for your time.Have a great day! Cody,Faronics give you scripts for thawing and refreezing a computer that has DeepFreeze installed. That works quite well for using sccm to install software.

I check a reg key to see if deepfreeze exists and if frozen. If it is then it runs an application (batch or cmd file in this case) to thaw it and reboots then runs my install. Then runs another batch file to refreeze it. For windows updates our sccm admin refuses to allow us to get the windows updates via deepfreeze like Faronics recommends. Instead sccm is set to deliver them during the nightly maintenance window that I have set up on lab computers. This works quite well.Good luck. Hi everyone I hope this is in the right place.

Let me start by describing our environment. We have deep freeze installed on about 80 machine (2 labs) this is because these are networking labs and the students need admin rights. Deep Freeze allows us to 'revert back' to an image even if the students break the current one.

The problem is the machines are frozen so we cannot push out software through SCCM or apply windows updates without doing it in maintenance windows. So we need to be able to revert machines and not be limited when pushing software.We are looking for alternatives and I was hoping I could get a few suggestions here. Some ideas we thought might work are a VHD, modified for of steady-state, or REG edits to only allow certain things to be run. I'm open to any suggestions.

Thanks for any help! I've used Deep Freeze for many years and it's a really solid program but I do think some other programs offer other options in functions that are better for some situations. I like Shadow Defender and Reboot Restore Rx because they are both free, although Reboot Restore Rx has more support options which I prefer. There's also Drive Vaccine if you don't mind paying for a good solution.

It's what I use in my computer lab and it's also really good like Deep Freeze but it has automation tools that I really like. I have used Faronics DeepFreeze for several years now (about 15). It is a very solid product with support that is top notch! I have dealt with a lot of software companies and there are not that many that I would give a high mark too but Faronics is one of those. We have 1000 licenses for the product and use it in open computer labs. Our users are local administrators. DeepFreeze has made maintenance a lot easier.

If a machine gets a virus then a reboot eliminates the problem. If a user deletes or uninstalls a needed item or corrupts networking then a reboot fixes it.Faronics has several white papers in their knowledge base. One of those outlines how to make the above mentioned batch files for thawing or freezing the computer so automated means (Novell Zenworks or Microsoft SCCM to name a couple) can push software to the computer.We also use SCCM and it is easy to create a sccm application that will thaw the computer and reboot then install something (or uninstall) and then set the computer back to frozen on next reboot (or reboot frozen right then) so I can install or uninstall software outside of the thawed daily maintenance period that I set.

AdvertisementIf you’ve ever wanted to maintain a system state to keep it secure and not allow any changes, then you might want to try deep freezing your Windows computer.Unlike a Want to know how to factory reset a PC? We show you the best methods to reset a Windows computer using Windows 10, 8, or 7., which wipes everything back to the manufacturer’s default, a deep freeze allows you to create a specific system state that you want your computer to restore back to. Windows 8 has In addition to the standard System Restore feature, Windows 8 has features for 'refreshing' and 'resetting' your PC. Think of these as ways of quickly re-installing Windows - either keeping your personal files or deleting., but this is a bit different.There are paid and free applications to help you accomplish this, so we’re going to look at both and see what’s available on the market. What Is Deep Freeze?is an application that resets the system state every time you reboot your computer.

This means that any change to the system, like installing a program or adjusting a setting, will be forgotten when the system starts up again.Deep Freeze is developed by Faronics and is available on modern versions of Windows. It’s suitable for a single computer workstation or an entire server. While Deep Freeze is a very useful tool, the downside is that it’s commercial. There’s nothing inherently wrong with Don't waste money on software for personal use! Not only do free alternatives exist, they most likely offer all the features you need and may be easier and safer to use., but there are a number of free alternatives out there that might suit you better. Download: (30-day free trial) or purchase full edition (price on request). Why Would I Need It?Have you ever used a public computer?

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Those found in hotels or libraries will probably use some sort of system restoring software. This is because these systems are set up to run in a very specific way. Users may accidentally download malware, attempt to install a program or Not happy with the Windows 8 look?

It only takes 5 minutes to fix that! We show you how to change the desktop wallpaper, add themes, resurrect the start menu, and more. – to keep tabs on this across all systems and then fix any changes is far too time consuming.Not only does it come in handy for businesses, but deep freezing a system can be beneficial to you as an individual, too. Have you ever set up a computer for a friend or relative only to return at a later date to find it riddled with junk? Or perhaps they’ve changed a setting somewhere and they don’t know how to get it back to normal? Save yourself the hassle of fulfilling the tech support role and instead let their computer dismiss any changes when they reboot. Additionally, be sure to read our guide on Are you tech support for your family or friends?

Do you receive frantic calls because they've installed malware or somehow managed to break their computer and they need you to fix it? What Are The Free Alternatives?If this sounds like something you might benefit from then we’ve rounded up a list of free software that will deep freeze your system. Be sure to post a comment below if you’ve used any of these before or have your own suggestion to add.Steadier State is a program developed specifically for Windows 7. The name comes from Windows SteadyState, a free deep freezing utility that Microsoft provided for XP and Vista, which was discontinued and is no longer compatible with new operating systems.

A good thing about this program is that every time the system reboots, you can choose whether to roll back to the original state or keep the changes. It’s a simple little utility, but if you’re running Windows 7 off a few single machines, then it’ll do the job well.While Reboot Restore Rx does have a paid alternative that offers additional features, like scheduled restoring, remote managed and critical update automation, the free version does the job just fine for basic use.The program supports Windows 2000 to Windows 8.1, both 32-bit and 64-bit, and is still being updated to this day.

It’s a bit different to some other programs because it uses its own mini operating system that functions at the sector level of the hard drive, ensuring the master boot records’ integrity is kept. One of the great things about ToolWiz Time Freeze is its simplicity. All you need to do is tick a single box and the program will work its magic. You can also start the program while the system is running or alternatively enable it to automatically run on each boot.You can add a password protection to your time freeze to make it harder for someone to disable the protection.

ToolWiz Time Freeze is available on everything from Windows XP and above. It even claims to work on Windows 10, which is still in beta! ‘Till Windows Freezes OverWhether you just want to protect your own computer or a whole bank of them, deep freezing a system can come in very useful. No longer do you have to worry about anything troubling your system again – simply restart and the changes are gone!You don’t even have to use these programs permanently. For example, there might be times where you let someone play around on your system and you could enable one of these utilities prior to the fact in order to maintain your preferred state.There’s loads of uses for a deep freeze and luckily an arsenal of free programs to help you out!Do you make use of any deep freeze software? If so, how does it come in useful for you?

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