▷ Deep freeze: what is it and what is it for

In this article we are going to see something that will surprise you a lot and it is Deep Freeze Windows 10, an application that, for sure, you will find very useful from now on, especially if you are one of those curious users who likes to mistreat Windows 10. If you have ever made wrong configurations on your computer or installed programs that had viruses and have had to reinstall Windows because you have destroyed it, that will end with Deep Freeze Windows 10

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In addition to the events that we have previously explained, many companies, especially programming, have a large amount of equipment in which risky actions are carried out at all times. As you will understand, every time something goes wrong you will not be reinstalling the operating system because that is wasting time. But they have a trick to avoid this and it is Deep Freeze.

What is Deep Freeze Windows 10

Deep Freeze is a paid trial version program created by Faronics. It is a core administrator software that will allow us to protect the integrity of our hard drive and operating system, blocking the information that will be written to a partition protected with this software.

What this program does is " freeze ", so to speak, the operating system so that all the configurations, configuration modifications and file storage are reversed when we restart our computer. Yes, if this software is active on our computer during a session, everything we do in it will be erased and our system will restart as it was just before the program was activated.

This is why Deep Freeze is also called the " Restart and Restore " program. To carry out any action in our system we will have to " unfreeze " our equipment with the corresponding action.

This is very useful. What we want to do is try some program that we have downloaded or some critical configuration on our system. If something goes wrong and we load the system, if we have Deep Freeze activated, we will only have to restart and everything will return to normal.

The Deep Freeze company has abundant software resources available on its website, although they all work under paid license. Some versions like the one we are going to use have a free trial version. This is standard Deep Freeze.

Deep Freezes apps

This software has many applications and all are very useful:

Workstations: Workers who, for example, use a remote or other operating system, will have a computer that is perfectly configured and ready to use every time they start the computer. Study rooms and Internet cafes: There is equipment for public use by users. If this does any wrong on these devices it will be very advantageous to have Deep Freeze and prevent the settings from taking effect. Education and hospitals: in addition to the above, it will also be applicable to other public bodies where equipment is always ready and ready for use.

Deep Freeze Window s10 download and installation

To download the program we will go to the official website. It will ask us for certain information about us, so it will be necessary to fill it out in order to download the software. We are going to use Deep Feeze Standard in version 8.55.

Once downloaded, we will have the program's installer to run it.

We go through the windows until we reach the one asking for the license. If we do not have it, we will click on " Evaluation of use " and then we will continue with the installation.

When we are in the Frozen Units Configuration Page, we must choose the storage units that we want Deep Freeze to freeze.

In our case we will only have one partition, which is the system partition, but we can also freeze other partitions that we have on our computer.

In the next window the program will inform us that it is going to create a virtual partition in which the content that we store in it will be kept during the freezing of the operating system. In this way we can keep files that we have created and we do not want them to be lost when the system is restarted.

When we have configured this virtual drive, the installation process will begin on the system.

When the process is complete, the computer will automatically restart to run the freeze process.

Deep Freeze Windows 10 Settings

When the computer restarts, our software will already be installed. We will notice this because the program symbol appears on the taskbar, indicating that it is running.

But if we try to access it, it will not be possible, so how do we access the program's settings? To do this we must press the following key combination

"Ctrl + Alt + Shift + F6"

This will bring up the configuration panel. At the beginning it will ask us for a password, we will press Enter and we will directly access the configuration panel.

Also, if we access our file explorer and go to " This Computer ", we will see that we have a new partition in the system called ThawSpace. This is where we will have to store the files that we do not want to be deleted when the computer restarts.

Protect Deep Freeze from users

The first important option that we will have is to configure a password so that when accessing the program we are asked to do so and thus prevent other users from modifying the parameters of the program.

When we have configured our password we will have to click on Apply and restart ”

Virtual partition visibility

If we go to the next tab we will have the possibility of making the virtual partition that the program has created on the computer visible or invisible.

To apply the changes again we will have to accept and restart the computer.

Freeze and unfreeze your computer with Deep Freeze Windows 10

In the main tab of the program we will have the options to freeze or unfreeze our machine

Restart frozen: This is the option activated by default. It implies that currently our system is frozen and everything we do on it will be erased when it is restarted. Restart unfrozen: If we activate this option, we will be able to restart our equipment normally and we will have the normal operation of it. The changes we make will be stored normally. Restart defrosted X time: we will also have an option that allows us to configure a certain number of restarts in which the machine will be defrosted. After that number, freeze again.

Now let's try to make some mistakes to our system to see how the program works. We have deleted all user information from the system. And part of Windows files that we have been able to. Our window has gone black and we cannot create folders or files. We can't even open the file explorer.