- #Free alternative to deep freeze software full#
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#Free alternative to deep freeze software password#
As soon as, it is rebooted the setting is undone without a password being entered.Īlso, DP provides perfect protection against unwanted software. The person also has completely unrestricted access to changing anything in the system. The icon itself indicating that the program is active can be hidden so as not to let the users know. All the data that came on was redirected into a particular part of the system and will never be referenced again. After that, you will be able to put it back. To change the frozen point, you must enter a password and restart before anything can be added. So once you have frozen a system, every time it reboots, everything goes back to the point at which it was. Whether it is a single computer or multiple connections in a single operation, this program has it all covered. The process is called freezing the system at a specific point. This application will reset your computer to a specific point. Keeping the wear and tear out of a computer is the main issue here.
#Free alternative to deep freeze software Pc#
The long term health of the PC is the aim of this software. Let me start by describing our environment.The dangers presented by kids running around loose in a work setting is highly dangerous to the integrity of operation. Hi everyone I hope this is in the right place. 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. 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. Thank you for explaining, this area is not exactly my area of expertise, but I have a basic knowledge.
#Free alternative to deep freeze software trial#
There is a free trial available though, I would recommend looking into it to see if it meets your needs. It'll be a bit expensive at about $900 per month for 80 clients though. One commercial solution that I was able to find is CCBoot.
#Free alternative to deep freeze software download#
They should only download a new OS image if a new one is available. There are PXE solutions available which support boot image checksum and versioning. That depends on the particular pre-boot solution that is used. Then configure each workstation with a small local storage so that student work will persist. Have all of the machines boot from a single disk image and you'll cut your work down by a factor of 80. If this is a networking lab, you should be able to configure a network boot. 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) 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. 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. I'm no security expert, so maybe you know a little bit more about why that might be important?
#Free alternative to deep freeze software full#
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": http /Just keep in mind this works on a filesystem level and not a kernel level. 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. We are looking for alternatives and I was hoping I could get a few suggestions here.
So we need to be able to revert machines and not be limited when pushing software. 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.
Deep Freeze allows us to "revert back" to an image even if the students break the current one. We have deep freeze installed on about 80 machine (2 labs) this is because these are networking labs and the students need admin rights. Let me start by describing our environment.