XP with Deep Freeze

[dreddnet]

The school I work for has a small 10 computers lab that I need to set up. We were going to use local policies to lock the PC down as much as possible so that the students do not make any major changes to the PC forcing us to have to reimage it. These PC's will not be on a domain.

Then I found this program called Deep Freeze. Has anyone tried this software where it will put the PC back to its original state after a restart? If it works like it states, we wouldn't need to lock the PC down so much because when the students reboot, it would be back to the way we want. Let me know if any of you have tried this... It would sure save me a lot of time trying to keep the PC locked down...

-Damon

 

[bcastner]

It works great. Note that the Symantec program "GoBack" has a similar feature option, And you can purchase copies of Norton SystemWorks 2003 with GoBack for well under $10 a copy anymore.

 

[NYR]

Deep Freeze is a pretty good product. Lots of Schools use it. You can "un-thaw" the pcs to apply patches and updates, then "freeze" it back up. I am pretty sure you can download a fully functional 30day trial, and there might even be a newer version out. I loaded it, made a bunch of registry changes, removed programs and files, then restarted the computer and it was all back to normal. I even went to Windows updates, installed patches, and after I rebooted, they were no longer there. Good Luck

 

[dreddnet]

Thanks for the opinions. I'm going to test it out today and if it doesn't appear to cause any major system slowdowns, then we are going to impliment it.

Again thanks for the help!

-Damon