[Corsair]

No.

EDIT: I take that back. I found the folder, which has three files.

DF5Serv: Deep Freeze 5 Service
FrzState2k: Deep Freeze 5 Utility
DfDiagnoseDll: 4.0.0.0

[Stryke 9]

Hmm. Yeah, something sweeping like a format might be the only way to do it.

Though I wonder what making everything read-only would do...

[Corsair]

I can't delete this folder by the way... Administrator password required or some crap like that.

[Stryke 9]

You don't even have admin access?


Good christ, man, what the hell do you expect to happen to this computer when you graduate?


Anyway. Can you delete any part of the folder? Taking out a key DLL would probably disable the beastly thing. Or might make your entire system unstable. Hard to tell from here. Worth a shot, though.

[Corsair]

I expect them to ****ing unlock it.

And I was able to delete the DLL. I'll restart tonight and see what it does...

[Stryke 9]

Well, it'll be interesting.

Fortunately, security's generally pretty lax at schools, so that was probably a genuine omission and might do it.

Kinda wish I ran into interesting problems like that here more often, actually. On other peoples' computers, ahem. Anybody who so much as touches mine gets nasty bleedy machete-hacking death.

[Corsair]

Oh yeah, hey Stryke. Once I click "empty recycle bin" then it's not totally gone, right? Where's that hidden folder with the recently deleted crap?

[Odyssey]

[color=cc9900]Unless Windows does something totally screwy with saving files, it ought to be a ghost of a file on the hard drive. i.e., the file is still there but Windows doesn't know it is, so will eventually write over it with something else.[/color]

[Corsair]

Okay.

[Stryke 9]

I think it must be a Temp thing, for future reference.


Doesn't really matter anyway. The program'd basically be dead as soon as the DLL was moved out of its folder, most likely. Basically nobody builds their software to survive a deletion, unless they're making a really fancy virus.

[Corsair]

Okay, going for a restart. Into the hands of fate...

[Stryke 9]

If it survives this, it'll be time for Drastic Measures™.

Or, really, just trying to overwrite the executable with "****" repeated 500000 times in Notepad. But Drastic Measures™ are more fun.

[Corsair]

Time for drastic measures.

I restarted. It had absolutely no effect. Everything went back to the way it was when it was locked. I have to reinstall half-a-dozen programs...luckily no files were lost because those I don't put in C: drive.

Oh, and did I mention that the DLL file I deleted apparently managed to RESPAWN itself? I deleted it, and then I deleted the one that appeared in TEMP, but it's still back in it's old folder.
Damn these people.

[Stryke 9]

That probably means it's backed up somewhere. So, yeah, try the Notepad thing on the executable first (which wouldn't be so easy to restore, at least assuming you checked for hidden programs), 'cos everything else I can think of takes a while and is kinda dangerous. And totally untested, which probably ties back into "dangerous"

[Fineus]

I know it's a hassle - but is there any way you can back up what you need to another separate hard drive, format the drive you're on, then reinstall everything from new?

[Bobboau]

I've been wondering how this thing works, I  (haveing no viable evedence to back this up) think is makes some sort of virtual drive and runs everything off of that, but this is just a personal theory from looking at how things like turning it off work (if you have an admin password, you can't just turn it off you have to restart before it will save anything)

[Bobboau]

you could always try looking for files made durring the time you know it was installed on

[Corsair]

Could I install XP back onto ONLY the C: drive and leave the drive with My Documents untouched? Cuz then I could probably save... everything, more or less.

EDIT: Bob's right. I think that even with the admin password you have to restart before it will be totally turned off.

Meh. I'm not gonna screw around with .exe's when I don't know what the hell I'm doing. I'll go bother them Tuesday when classes start up again.

[Bobboau]

if you have two partitions already then you have a much nicer situation, the reason I sujested makeing two partitions is so that in the future you could do a clean sweep of the OS and reinstall windows without looseing any data, if there is nothing on C that is of importance then just put in your XP install disck and kill the C partition and reinstall, actualy be fore you do that go into windows/system32 and look for a file wpa.dbl (I think that's the extention) copy that and replace it after you have reinstaled so you don't have to go through the painful windows activation proces. after saveing that file reboot with your instal disk in and reformat and reinstall c

[Flipside]

I am assuming you've already tried rolling back your system to before they installed this program and taking it from there?