Try the professional version with "Thaw Space". You can just set the whole
Documents and Settings folder as an unfrozen directory and DeepFreeze will
leave it alone.

-Jesse Weigert

-----Original Message-----
From: Matt [mailto:mhoppes (at) gmail (dot) com [email concealed]]
Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2004 3:00 PM
To: Jesse Weigert
Cc: chang zhu; focus-ms (at) securityfocus (dot) com [email concealed]
Subject: Re: Can we really block users from installing applications through
Group policy?

I agree that deepfreeze is a wonderful program and is great for things like
labs, but how do you use it in your corporate environment?
Don't things like outlook express and such lose settings? It seems to me
that outlook express by default saves mail to the LOCAL SETTINGS directory
which doesn't migrate.

On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 23:25:35 -0700, Jesse Weigert <weigert (at) gravitec (dot) com [email concealed]>
wrote:
> A very easy way to stop users from installing software is to install
> Deepfreeze. It basically locks the hard drive down so that if users
> do install software or make changes to the system, they are reset the
> next time the computer reboots. I have found this to MUCH more
> effective than any Windows policy restriction. I even let users log
> in as local administrators so that I don't have to deal with software
> incompatibilities with permissions. If they hose their system up or
> get a virus, it is deleted the next time they reboot their system.
>
> -Jesse Weigert
>
>
>

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