#Cost of deep freeze software education install#
#Cost of deep freeze software education full#

#Cost of deep freeze software education install#

I tested Reboot Restore Rx yesterday and initial trials were great, it did exactly what I expected, and was dead-simple to install and configure. Anyway, we're in the same boat, using ghost (an older version, 11.2.x), but if there are free solutions that do much (if not exactly) the same thing as Deep Freeze then the point is more or less irrelevant. I'm definitely mindful of my time (which if you knew what I make really isn't that valuable, but I digress). I went from spending about 4-10 hours a week in our open to the public library re-imaging machines (we used ghost) to about 2 hours a month. You talk about the cost of deepfreeze, but not about the cost of your time.

#Cost of deep freeze software education full#

I'm not interested in implementing SRPs in group policy and totally locking the computers down, but I think something like this could be a good compromise between BOFH and no protections at all (right now, they have full admin rights so we just re-image several times a year).

I'd kind of just like to tap the hive mind and see what you all think. I've found and read through quite a few threads about Deep Freeze especially, but the other solutions aren't mentioned nearly as often. To the point of the post: I'd like to hear peoples' experiences with these solutions, good, bad, and ugly. We will still re-image it a couple of times a year but this is intended just to help keep them running better, longer, while still allowing student to (at least temporarily) install stuff and feel like they have the freedom to do whatever they want on it. This is intended only as something to make it a little more difficult for the students to break the machine. I'm leaning toward one of the free solutions right now, and beginning evaluations. But even that is a little expensive, considering the free alternatives that do much of the same. It seems like, of the paid solutions, Clean Slate might be preferable to Deep Freeze because of the way you have to apply windows updates on Deep Freeze (Unfreeze, Reboot | Apply Updates, Reboot | ReFreeze, Reboot), whereas Clean Slate allows them through. I like the idea of leaving the computer unrestricted so people can do whatever they want, but then just wiping it on reboot/logout/some-set-interval.ĭrive Vaccine (cheap, from the makers of Reboot Restore RX)

Hi folks, I work at a small college and I've been doing some reading over the last few days about reboot-to-restore solutions for public lab computer situations.