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Sid Meier
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How do I disable deep freeze on computers? For no particular reason.... [Wink]
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TomDavidson
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You don't. It's there for a good reason.
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Orson Scott Card
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What the heck is deep freeze? Or is it a Mac thing?
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It's a product businesses put in place to combat people who change settings/hack/goof up systems. Basically it rolls back to an approved configuration at every restart.
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Deep Freeze is a windows program commonly used in computer labs to eliminate problems with changed configurations:

http://www.faronics.com/html/deepfreeze.asp

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You may need to disable deep freeze to install new programs or windows updates. If you have DF for 98, then durring start up you hit..umm...F6 I think. It might be another F key, I forget. It will then boot to a screen where you put in the DF password to turn it off.

DF for XP is much better. When you log on, in the righthand corner there is a DF icon. If you Shift+left click it, then it will ask for a password. You put it in and then you will have a menue you can choose to restart "thawed" as many times as you want. Real handy when you need to do a couple reboots.

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Sid Meier
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darn, I don't know the password.
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TheTick
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Which is probably the point. [Wink]
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a word of warning...if you are using a computer with deep freeze, you most likely had to log into the computer to use it. This means that if you do fiddle with settings, and mess something up, they will know it was you.
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To add to that warning. If you deactivate deep freeze and log on and make a change, when you restart the computer to reactivate DF, it will permanently show you were the last person to log on.

To overcome this, you need to make your changes with DF off, log off, log on as the last user who logged on, and then restart the computer.

Ie. At my school, there is a generic logon name without Internet privileges named "Mathstudent." Math classes often use it for programs like the geometry sketch pad.

After I make any change, I log off of my account and log on as Mathstudent, and then I restart the computer.

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"After I make any change, I log off of my account and log on as Mathstudent, and then I restart the computer."

When my boss asks why I bother tracking individual student logins, this is exactly what I tell him: "so we can catch people like lem."

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Sid Meier
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Lol, comp sci students are the only one with individual logins but our computers you have to be an administrator to do anyhting anyways, its the older Win95-98 computers that have the deep freeze and don't require ad logins.
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