Hello and welcome to the Video Tutorial for the Deep Freeze Reboot-and-Restore magic.

The purpose of our tutorial today is to demonstrate the proven, robust, bulletproof, and unrivaled power of the core Deep Freeze technology.

We have established our perfect system configuration just the way we want it and then installed Deep Freeze as indicated by a Frozen Computer icon in the System Tray.

Our workstation is fully optimized, our drives are de-fragmented. We have only one fragmented directory. We can close the disk defragmenter now.

We are going to apply several changes to the workstation, reboot it and see that all changes we have made were reverted by Deep Freeze. Our initial configuration stays protected, day after day, year after year.

Let us start with some minor changes System Administrators have to deal with every day:

We will change some of the desktop settings. Let us create a new desktop icon for Internet Explorer, and then create another one, and then another for My Documents, and another one again. We will also change the background image to a Coffee Bean, tiled. We apply the settings, we activate the 3-D Screen Saver, and Apply the changes again.

Quite often, it does not take much to initiate a tech support call.

We can navigate to Appearance, select Window text and change the font color to white, which will make navigation and finding a file almost impossible. We click apply to adopt the changes.

Now let us launch Windows Explorer. As we see, the icons are still there, but we do not know what those icons stand for. This would initiate a tech support call, but we're not nearly done yet, so we'll go back and change the white color to uncomfortable red. Click Apply. We can close this dialog box now.

Deep Freeze reverts all changes, from minor toolbar misplacements to corrupted system files.

Let us start Microsoft Word. In the new document let us type This is my document, make the font size 80, and save this document on our desktop. We will also deactivate the Standard and Formatting toolbars, leaving the Web toolbar active. We can close Microsoft Word now. Our file resides on our desktop. Let us see if the toolbars are removed. We launch Word again and the only toolbar we have present is the Web toolbar. We can close Microsoft Word now.

Now we start Microsoft Excel. Press Alt + F11, and select This Workbook. Navigate to Workbook Element and in the open procedure type: shell with a path to our notepad application. We can now close the editor and save the workbook as a Phone List in our root directory. We can now close Excel.

Let us see what happens if anybody decides to open our "phoney list." We navigate to our root directory, and launch the phoney list. As you see, we have just launched Notepad application, along with our Excel document. This presents a very significant security risk, as instead of launching notepad, a malicious user can embed something much nastier.

We can now close Notepad. We remove the Standard and Formatting toolbars. Now we close the application and re-open it to make sure the toolbars are gone. Yes, they are gone. We can now close Excel.

We have already messed up our workstation significantly, and we have not even accessed the Internet yet.

Well, let us explore the Web. Click on any of the Internet Explorer icons on our desktop; now we have plenty.

Instead of Faronics Content Library, let us go to the Internet Options and change our default web page. If we do not do it ourselves, a browser hijacker will probably do it for us. We will select www.someuglywebsite.com as our start page. Now we click Ok and restart the browser. The start page has changed. Now we will download and install Yahoo Messenger to chat with our friends and exchange files over the internet.

The program downloads and installs.

We can now chat with our friends online, send and receive files. We close the messenger and restart Internet Explorer. As we see, the Yahoo toolbar is now active. Let us press F11 to activate full screen view and hide the address bar, making navigation almost impossible. We can now close Internet Explorer to save the settings the way we left them.

Let us go to Computer Properties and change Network Identification settings. We will change the computer name from Deep Freeze to MyComp and workgroup from Videotutorial to MyNet.

Click Ok to confirm the change. We have joined MyNet workgroup and must reboot the computer for the changes to take effect. But we are not done yet, are we? So we will delay the reboot, click Ok to close the dialog box. Click Ok to leave System Properties. Click No to postpone reboot.

Let us dive into the Windows Registry now:

From run menu we type regedit, to start Registry Editor. Select Local Machine key > Software and select Policies. We delete policies. We confirm the deletion. Select ODBC. Delete it. We go into Classes Root and start deleting every single one of them. Let us delete all starting with A. Now we select SYSTEM. Select the Current Control Set and delete it. We click Yes to confirm the deletion. This hangs the registry editor. We will have to end this process.

Now we open My Computer. Go to WINNT directory> Show all files, select Java and say, Security Directories, and delete them. Confirm the deletion. Let us create three new folders on our desktop now. Select the WINNT Directory and copy it to every one of those new folders. The purpose of this is to demonstrate that Deep Freeze does not deteriorate the performance of our workstation.

Let us go to Computer Properties and go to the Device Manager. We are going to create a hardware problem now. In our Device Manager I am going to disable my CD Rom. So next time I reboot my computer, the CD Rom will not be accessible.

We have messed up the configuration of the computer so much that it does not respond to any of my commands anymore.

Let us sum up our actions: We messed up our computer hardware and software configuration, changed network identification, deleted some system files, added files and shortcuts, changed office settings, created a malicious macro, installed some software from the internet.

Let us check for disk fragmentation. We started off with 1 fragmented directory, now we have 27. We can close the Disk Defragmenter now.

The workstation is ruined. It is high time to reboot and call Technical Support for assistance.

Let us just pull the plug on this workstation.

As we see, the workstation reboots in protected mode. All changes we have done have been reverted. The system is clean and functional again. No icons, no new background, no "phoney lists" with macros in our root directory. Even toolbars in our office applications are back to normal. Let us launch the Word to see that the toolbars are there. We can start the defragmentation, analyze drive C, and view the report. We have only one fragmented directory-the one we started off with in the beginning.

This call to technical support will have to wait.

We have now successfully concluded our video tutorial for the Deep Freeze Reboot-and-Restore magic.

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