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# freeze-thaw
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## Freeze/Thaw scripts. Or, poor-man's DeepFreeze
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A long time ago I was working with a Windows machine that had DeepFreeze installed. Deep Freeze will take a snapshot of
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system upon demand and can revert to that snapshot after every boot. We used it in an assisted-living library to
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prevent the residents from over-riding system settings, changing the language, setting the wallpaper to porn or deleting
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the C:/Windows directory (all of which happened at one point or another)
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There are certainly more robust or professional solutions but this was quick, easy to understand and effective.
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I then converted these machines to Linux (since the browser was the application used 98% of the time) and I wanted to
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emulate Deep Freeze. I stumbled across these scripts, tweaked them and held onto them since they worked so well.
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