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Faronics Deep Freeze was installed in my computer, I wanted to get rid of it so I thawed the PC for some reboots—5 or 6 I don't remember—then rebooted and big mistake: I deleted the installation folder instead of uninstalling it first.

I thought it was all good, I had forgotten about it already and just now when I rebooted last time—it’s been like two days since—I see Deep Freeze actions taking place again.

I don’t understand, in the task manager the service DFServ shows Stopped but if I go to “CompMgmt -> Services -> DFserv” shows a Disabled status. Registry entries are still there too.

Since I don’t have the installation folder I cannot uninstall it and still as there is nothing there I don't get how in the world the program is still doing it’s job?

If I try to run the installer an error shows saying:

Deep Freeze Standard must be disabled before any Install/Uninstall can proceed.

C: is the frozen drive.

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You have to understand one thing 1st is that, there is no uninstall for Deepfreeze. if you wanna get rid of that, you have to run it again and that instance will ask you if you wanna Remove it permanently.(so you won't uninstall it from windows uninstaller)

Solution:

If the Deep Freeze still runs. you have to make it thawed 1st by holding CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+F6. then provide password if you gave it to it. then disable it and try installing it again.

Updated: or try this

First have another unit to install Deep Freeze and do not put any password. Then, boot thaw that unit. Copy the file at the root, c:\ "Persi0.*" (something like this). Paste it to the root of the drive that you want to unfreeze, voilà! That machine will be unfreezed. You can now uninstall Deep Freeze after booting.

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