Hi all. What can any of you tell me about your experience with Deep Freeze from Faronics LTD? Do you use the Enterprise or Standard edition? I am trying to determine which version is easier to deploy and use for 38 PC stations. I hear good things from schools in Chicago but I would like to hear it from actual users in labs. Most Net reviews I found are from computer security experts (who do it the hard but free way with Windows built in security) or the company itself and I would greatly appreciate more objective opinions from other language lab people. Other student computing labs at NEIU use Windows Group Policy Editor and file permission lockdowns in Windows XP SP2, but that's taken me two years to learn by myself with only partial success. The browser, desktop and menus are hardened but unwanted and unauthorized programs still get installed somehow by students and it's back to restoring from a drive image (twenty minutes per each corrupted station) or going through the hour long process of manually unlocking Windows GPO settings to remove the unauthorized program and relocking the stations. The Admin versus Limited account does not help because it prevents most legacy CAI language programs from running. The open student labs are better "hardened" and seem to prevent unwanted installs using the same built-in but intimidating and time-consuming Windows technology. I asked for help and training but their IT people are too busy with their own labs to provide me much support so I feel it's time to purchase a third party solution. Interdepartment cooperation seems to be a thing of the past. If I have to continue as a lone wolf, it's time to pay for help from software. We are renovating the NEIU lab in a new location with 38 new Dell Optiplex GX620s. Don't want to expose those to the nonsense like our PCs. Thanks. Tom Griffin, Supervisor, Foreign Language Lab Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures Northeastern Illinois University 5500 N. St. Louis Avenue Chicago, IL 60625 773-442-4753 773-442-4752 [log in to unmask] [log in to unmask] *********************************************** LLTI is a service of IALLT, the International Association for Language Learning, and The Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning (http://consortium.dartmouth.edu). Join IALLT at http://iallt.org. Otmar Foelsche, LLTI-Editor ([log in to unmask]) ***********************************************