One final restart. This time, the boot screen showed: .
She right-clicked the polar bear again. Selected from the context menu. A warning appeared: "All changes made after this restart will be lost upon reboot."
Step 4: The final thawed boot
A progress bar crawled from 0% to 100%. At the finish, Deep Freeze asked to restart. She nodded to the empty room. "Let's do this."
The installer asked which drives to freeze. She selected only. The D: (ThawSpace) she left unfrozen. She also checked the box: Boot Thawed on Next – this would let her apply final updates before the final freeze. install deep freeze windows 10
She accepted the license agreement. When asked for the installation type, she chose .
The computer rebooted. On startup, a small polar bear icon appeared in the system tray. Right-clicking showed: . One final restart
First, she logged into the master machine with local admin rights. She uninstalled bloatware, set the desktop background to the university logo, and disabled USB auto-run. She defragmented the SSD—not strictly necessary, but she was a perfectionist. Then she created a "ThawSpace" on the D: drive. This small, 20 GB partition would remain writable even when frozen, so students could save their exam files.