how to recover deep freeze password

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Solution 1

Try going to the bios and setting your system clock ahead 60 days. That should force the machine into a thawed state (trial or not).

Solution 2

There is some information here but I kinda doubt that will help unless you are using the trial version.

If you are feeling adventurous, you can try this process which I just made up (but probably won't work):

Do a full backup with something like Acronis or CloneZilla and save to an external drive
Boot a live CD like Knoppix
From Knoppix, navigate over to where deep freeze is installed in windows
Delete or move everything related to deep freeze so that it is unable to start with windows
Restart and see what happened to windows (maybe even try safe mode)

If this totally messed up your computer, restore from backup.

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soul

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Updated on September 17, 2022

Comments

soul almost 2 years

Please help, I've lost my deep freeze password. What do I do? I need to disable it but I forgot the password. Is there any software that can be used to uninstall it even if its enabled.
- JJ_Australia about 14 years
  
  Duplicate: superuser.com/questions/147180/…
- msw about 14 years
  
  For Faronics' s sake, one should hope that you can't recover the password. contact their support: faronics.com/en/Support.aspx
- JJ_Australia almost 14 years
  
  For people who don't know, DeepFreeze is a program that restores the hard drive and registry to an image every restart.
- Joel Coehoorn about 13 years
  
  @Hello71 it does not restore to an image on each reboot. It prevents any changes from becoming permanent on the drive in the first place.
- JJ_Australia about 13 years
  
  @Joel: Wrong. faronics.com/en/Products/DeepFreeze/DeepFreezeEducation.aspx
- Joel Coehoorn about 13 years
  
  @Hello71 - Nothing in there says it restores from an image. Faronics won't admit how they do it (faronics.com/en/support/FAQ.aspx#1), but it's fairly common knowledge among it's users that they install their own low-level disk drivers and redirect all changes you make to unused portions of the hard disk. When you reboot, these changes just don't exist any more. If you have access to a deepfreeze installation (I do) you can easily see the new disk drivers.
- Joel Coehoorn about 13 years
  
  @Hello71 - this difference is important, because it means that unlike other products DeepFreeze requires only about 5Mb of disk space, takes very little time to install (you don't have to build/compress a gigabytes of data into an image), and you can easily and relatively quickly update your frozen machine by "thawing" it for update periods.
- Joel Coehoorn about 13 years
  
  @Hello71 also see the wikipedia article: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Freeze_(software)
David Richerby over 9 years

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