These instructions are for freezing or thawing a machine that has Marmot’s installation of DeepFreeze on itinstalled. If changes are to be made on a machine which has DeepFreeze on it, and those changes are something that is not intended to be wiped out the first time the computer reboots, it must be thawed before making those changes. This includes installing or updating software. To protect the data on the computer, and potentially user privacy, the machine MUST then be refrozen before being returned to regular usage.
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\uD83D\uDCD8 Instructions
Thaw a machine:
Most machines that have DeepFreeze will be public machines, and will have PCRes on them. It If this is a public machine, it will be necessary to either sign into a PCRes session, or bypass PCRes, in order to begin thawing thaw the machine. (see separate instructions to bypass PCRes)
Once past the desktop is availablePCRes screen, press (all at once) Ctrl + Alt + Shift + F6. This is will bring up the DeepFreeze password window.
Enter the password, provided by Marmot staff in the popup. NEVER share this password with patrons.
Click the “OK” button.
On the next pop-up window, on the Boot Control tab, select the “Boot Thawed” radio button near the upper left corner of the window.
Click on the “Apply and Reboot” button at the bottom-right corner of the window.
A pop-up window will appear saying that “The computer will be Thawed on all future starts.”
Click on “OK”, or wait just a moment and it will go to the next step on it own.
A confirmation pop-up will appear, saying “The configuration has been saved successfully. Do you want to reboot your computer now?”
Click “Yes”. It is necessary to reboot the computer for it to actually thaw.
The computer will now reboot . When it does, it thawed.
The machine will reboot to its autolog profile for public machines, but will be in a thawed state. You may now make so you will need to bypass the PCRes screen.
Make changes as needed. Don’t forget to refreeze the machine afterward
Refreeze using the directions below.
Freeze a machine:
From Bypass the desktop, press (all at once) PCRes screen, if needed
Press Ctrl + Alt + Shift + F6. This will bring up the DeepFreeze password window.
Enter the password provided by Marmot staff. NEVER share this password with patrons.
Click the “OK” button.
On the next pop-up screen, on the Boot Control tab, select the “Boot Frozen” radio button, near the upper left corner of the window.
Click on the “Apply and Reboot” button at the bottom-right corner of the window.
A pop-upwindow
will appear saying that “The computer will be Frozen on all future starts.
”Click on “OK”
, or wait just a moment.
A confirmation pop-up will appear, saying “The configuration has been saved successfully.
Do you want to reboot your computer now?”
Click “Yes”
. It is necessary to reboot the computer for it to actually freeze.
The computer will now reboot frozen
, and any changes made to it by the next user will be wiped out as soon as the computer is rebooted again.
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