[Corsair]

Anybody ever heard of a program called Deep Freeze?
The damn techie people at school put it on my laptop cuz they were tired of seeing junked up machines with too much crap on them being brought in to be fixed.

After three restarts, this program locked down my C: drive and so now whenever I restart, anything that isn't saved to My Documents disappears. And I have to install it all again. I've gotten around this by just leaving my laptop on standby until it crashes but that's annoying as hell.

Anybody know of a way to get this damn thing off, short of having the administrator password?

[kasperl]

no, never heard of it, so i don;t know about how to kill it.

format c: is a garantueed way though, unless this includes on of those hardware jokes.

out of curiosity, is this your machine or does the school own it?

[Stryke 9]

Heh heh. I really don't know if I can bring myself to be helpful, that's the most excellent abuse of tech powers I've heard in months...

Anyway. Not familiar with the product, but it looks like it's rather the point to keep people from bypassing it. I'd email the support guys at the company, or just go in and grovel before the repair guys for a while. That is, unless it's the school's computer, in which case you're just ****ed, and serves you right.

[Corsair]

It's my computer. The school just thinks it can play Big Brother from 1984 and get away with it. And they are.

I'd reformat except that I'm not sure quite how to do it and I don't want to lose all my stuff...which is too much to back up.

[Stryke 9]

I like these guys more and more.


Anyway. Like I said. DeepFreeze support'll probably help, if you come up with a plausible story. The "I just bought this computer used..." line has served me well in the past.

[Kamikaze]

*cough* nevermind, read it wrong.

[Bobboau]

wait if it's your computer then how could they have put it on there
you might want to try a secondary OS to kill it.

[Darkage]

Why not just ask those guy's to remove it? as you said you own the machine so they have no right to put stuff on your machine with out your permission.

[Solatar]

Install everything in My Documents?

[Bobboau]

it resets the registry ect

[karajorma]

Any reason why you can't just kill the process with a CTRL-Alt-Delete?

[Corsair]

Ermm... yeah. It manages to hide itself so it doesn't appear to be running, even when it is.

As for why they won't take it off...well...they won't. If it gets taken off, then they reserve the right to cut off all my internet, email, etc. from school. I own it as a part of the school's tech program.

Maybe I will just reformat...errr...someone want to tell me how to do that?

[Darkage]

So it aint realy yours?

[Corsair]

http://www.deepfreezeusa.com/enterprise/index.htm

this is the program I believe....

EDIT: It IS really mine. I bought it. With my money. Mine. But the school thinks that they have some right to fiddle with it because I bought it through their program and got a discount on it. But it's mine.
[Gollum]My precioussssssssssss....[/Gollum]

[Darkage]

well then it is your property not theres so.

My sister also bought a laptop at her school and she also sended it to the tech guys to have a look at it they also installed some security crap on it. But because she owned it they had to remove the program.

[Corsair]

Well...I emailed the contact they gave on their website. Maybe they'll give me a good answer. Otherwise I'll just have to go back to pestering the people at IT.

[Bobboau]

save all important files some were else, insert the XP instal disk, it should boot from cdROM when you turn it on (hit key to boot from CD if it finds a bootable CD)  after loading a buch of stuff it'll give you the option to delete partitions delete the one partition you have (I'm assumeing you only have one) then make two new ones one should be about 5 gigs the other should be as big as you can make it, format the 5 gig one in NTFS and install XP on it

[Stryke 9]

I guess I should really ask at this point- why the devil would you ever give your computer to college techs in the first place? The ones out here, at least, are out of their league when doing any troubleshooting that doesn't involve a hammer.

And if it's a claw hammer, they're liable to hurt themselves even then.

[Corsair]

They said they would cut off my internet if I didn't. Like a fool, I gave it to them.

I actually have two partitions. C drive is locked down but T drive is free (and that's where My Documents is).

Ermm...meh. I don't have time to reformat anyway. I'm doing applications for the summer right now... going to try to take some foreign relations courses at Georgetown. I'll go bug them after the long weekend.

[Stryke 9]

Awfully controlling, aren't they?


Yeah, this is sounding less and less like some respectable malicious bastards and more and more like a bunch of pigly ****s. Can you locate the program at all?