dsk file) if the file becomes corrupt there is no way to recover the data.ħ. Since the data is stored in some sort of proprietary ISO (humor me if you will - its actually some sort of. The thawspace has problems such as corruption. It is possible to use registry keys to move specific parts of the profile to the "thawspace". This is a virtual hard drive that deep freeze creates on install.
To solve the issue of bookmarks / My Documents the Enterprise (which is what we used) has the ability to make a "thawspace".
#DEEP FREEZE SOFTWARE OLD VERSION UPDATE#
The software is difficult to update since it doesn't work well with vLANS (since its WINS / Broadcast based).Ħ. When it does, even if you do type in the password the computer may not completely thaw.ĥ. When you push the key sequence to bring up the box occasionally the box fails to display. Some computers fail to show up for unknown reasons.Ĥ. In the deep freeze console that is distributed to Computer Techs managing it, since the remote computer listing is WINS based its not reliable.
I know it has the options to do that in the administrative versions, but thats difficult do manage.ģ. Its too difficult to manage Windows Updates with the software. Like, when you thaw a computer and go to refreeze it for some reason it just goes into either a blue screen mode every time you boot up, or it just reboots constantly.Ģ. Now, we're moving away from Deep freeze for several reasons:ġ. I'm a network engineer for the school district where I live, and we've used Deep Freeze since I've worked there (and I've seen about 3 revisions of the software, all having common problems).