I "thawed" my machine last night and performed a Windows Update. The update is having issues (it gets stuck at 32%, fails, and restarts my machine). When it reboots it attempts it again, and again, and again, etc. (Endless loop).
When I run Safe Mode, Safe Mode w/ Network, or Safe Mode w/ Command Prompt it attempts to revert the Windows Update changes. However, the problem is with Deep Freeze on (and now in "Frozen" mode) the reverted changes don't stay, and I'm back into the loop of death. Oh, and side note: "Safe Mode w/ Command Prompt" does not actually take me to a command prompt window? Perhaps because it is attempting to complete the Windows Update changes first?
Is there a way to disable Deep Freeze from loading? When I selected "Safe Mode w/ Command Prompt" I noticed that it loads the DpFrz.sys file. I know that when I'm in the Windows Boot Manager if I press F10 instead of F8 (while highlighting Windows 7) it takes me to an "Edit Boot Options" screen:
Update: I found my Windows 7 Media Disk and it did not help out. The laptop had the "System Restore" as a partition on the HDD. I later received (in the mail) a Windows 7 Upgrade Disc from Sony to upgrade my system from Windows Vista to Windows 7 Ultimate. I placed the disc into the DVD drive and it does not come up as a "bootable" disc. I'm going to try to find an alternative disc to see if I can get into Command Prompt.
1a. Boot from the Windows 7 System Repair Disc and choose the repair option in the lower left hand corner, choose System Restore, and select a Restore Point predating the attempted installation of the updates.
1b. If you don't have the DVD and Vista/W7 came preinstalled on the machine, use F8 at the bios splash screen to get the Windows Advanced Screen, choose "Repair Your Computer" from the list, let Windows RE load then do a system restore.
exit recovery environment and restart the pc, you may get 3 of 3 again but be patient, the desktop should load. Create a restore point and Turn off Automatic updates until you can figure out which update caused the loop.
When the machine reboots enter the bios and set the date to at least sixty days in the future. This will disable deepfreeze and allow you to resolve the loop problem. Don't forget to set the clock back when you're finished.
This is the ONLY solution that worked for me as I couldn't get a command prompt through the F8 method. It DOES work on the paid version (not just the trial) but you have to set the date far enough ahead that it passes the expiration date - I set it to 2 years ahead. Thank you so much to the previous posters on this thread... I would have been in deep trouble without this fix!
"HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\BootExecute"See over BootExecute Key, the default value must be "autocheck autochk *"However, if you cant at least boot on Safe Mode you wont be able to test this.
I am looking into new AV solutions for the School Board I work for, and I have always been a fan of Eset's Nod32 AV and use it on my personal devices. The biggest issue we have with any of the AV solutions we have tried is that we need them to integrate with Faronics Deep Freeze. (hxxp://www.faronics.com/products/deep-freeze/enterprise/) Deep Freeze is a great product, but their AV is not. The issue is that Deep Freeze locks down the system drive, and after every reboot the system drive reverts to its original state, so any AV updates have to be re-downloaded after every reboot. What I am looking for is an AV solution that is centrally managed, and one where you can change where AV definitions are stored. Deep Freeze can create a hidden thaw space on the system drive that is not effected by Deep Freeze, this is how their own AV product handles updates. Any info appreciated.
As the On Board Monitor is broken you can plug in an external Monitor tot he NB and use that to see what you are doing. You however may be required to use a Key Combination to switch screens depending on your Make & Model Note Book. ?
in order to delete deepfreeze:
1- press (ctrl-alt-delete) all at once
or right click on the taskbabr and select
task manager.
2- after the task manager windows opens up click on processes.
3- look for Frzstate2k.exe then right click on it then click on end process tree
4- also look for DFserv.exe right click then click on end process tree
5- now go to my computer and click on it, select the c: driver then click on program files
6- look for this file Faronics and delete it
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I am having trouble applying group policies on computers with deep freeze installed on them. They are domain joined and pulling updates from our WSUS server before being frozen. When we freeze them they seem to lose their group policy settings. I have tried thawing, gpupdate/ force, and then refreezing, but they lose their group policy as soon as they are brought back up. What could be causing this? Everything was working fine until a bad Windows update came through. We blocked the update on our WSUS server and thawed, removed the update, and re-froze all the computers. The next day I came to work to find out that all the computers had reached out to the Internet and pulled the bad update again.
I don't know the answer about Deep Freeze but this is the kind of problems that this type of software generates.The software freeze the machine in a point of the time, and everything you do is lost when the machine is restart. That is bad thing because machines stops to taking changes of important things like updates.These type of software let you make execptions to dont have this issues, but in lots of cases still fails.
So my recommendation here is dont use Deep Freeze, Windows natively can do to a similar behavior with lots of advantages for free.Microsoft has a guide to do this using GPos and mandatory profiles: Creating a Steady State by Using Microsoft Technologies
What exactly is the group policy setting (or settings) being lost? Deep Freeze will keep the settings on the machine as they were (unless they're updated during, say, a maintenance window), but it can still be overridden at runtime. Just like with viruses. Deep Freeze will protect the machine from infection in that when you reboot, it's gone; but it can still be infected during runtime.
Also if there are alterations during runtime the policy may get overridden. I.e., user-specific settings from their portions of the registry (pulled from a profile) will take effect at login, just like if they have malware in their profile it'll infect the machine each time they log in and get wiped when restarted (assuming the profile isn't part of the freeze state.)
The bad update shouldn't matter if the machine is frozen. Restarting will eliminate it, unless they're doing it over a maintenance thaw. One solution to that is to either alter your DNS records so you can't reach the Windows Update server except from your WSUS server (not a great solution) or blocking access at a proxy or firewall except for your server.
I will begin by saying that as we approach the present moment the absolute need for Deep Freeze to come back becomes more and more urgent. Here I will allow myself to speak on behalf of all the Frost mages who want this spell back on their action bars. The number of people who argue in favor of this change is not small at all and it only takes a few searches on the forum to see the number of posts and extent to which Mages want DEEP FREEZE Back.
This argument has been going since Legion and I will state a few reasons/suggestions which will contribute to the general discussion.
1st , Deep Freeze allows for more flexibility in PvP situations defensive, offensive or simply used as utility spell for a set up. The spell greatly increases the quality of world PvP and the ability for skilled mages to engage in 1 v X situations.
2nd, The shimmer(Talent) blink + Polymorph playstyle in arena is boring, one dimensional and already in place for 5+ years since Legion came out. It is much more satisfying to be able to cross cc with deep freeze and get a sheep than just blink behind pillar while casting poly and get the sheep on the enemy healer. Here I suggest the removal of Shimmer and its replacement with Deep Freeze.
Maybe instead of the two Frost Nova talent we could have something like: Your Arcane Explosion has a 20% chance and your Arcane Orb and Supernova has a 100% chance to apply Slow. Your speed increases by 10% for each enemy slowed.
Combines your damaging periodic Fire effects on an enemy target but does not consume them, instantly dealing 23 to 32 Fire damage and creating a new periodic effect that lasts 10sec and deals damage per time equal to the sum of the combined effects.
Again problem is Covenant Abilities. They are badly designed and they should not have such big impact to classes. Current gameplay is simplistic and unfun. And pruning did so much damage on gameplay that the game hasnt still recovered from that. Add the fact that people who now work with systems and classes are incompetent morons.
How so arcane exactly? I can see it being broken on Frost and Fire, due to high damage talents such as Comet Storm, Meteor, Ray of Frost, Greater Pyro, Pyroclasm and Glacial Spike, aka talents that would never be introduced if all mage specs still had Deep Freeze + Shatter baseline.
Arcane also needs more flexibility but it is debatable what exactly should be changed. If anything, I would like to emphasize that right now is the perfect moment for Blizz devs to consider the above mentioned changes which are highly requested and bring a fresh breath to the Mage class in the upcoming patch and Shadowlands season 2!
For this reason, in 2019 two different research teams independently made the radical suggestion that Jupiter had originated in the deep freeze beyond the current orbits of Neptune and Pluto, then spiraled inward toward the sun.
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