Saturday, February 9, 2008

How to Uninstall Deep Freeze with or without the password

Deep freeze is an excellent program is you have a computer shop / internet cafe and you don't want the headache and hassle of reformatting your PC everytime your computer encounter a serious problem. But it can also be a source of your problem if you already want to uninstall it or worse, you don't know/forgot the password.

Yesterday, somebody called me up and asked if i can uninstall deep freeze without knowing the password because his former technician went on AWOL. Fortunately, I do. It saved him a lot of time because everyone he asked told him that the only answer to his problem is by formatting his hard drive. I will post here two methods, you can use the first one if you know the password and you just don't know how to disable or uninstall deep freeze. The second one is for those people who forgot the password of their DF program.

First method from DeepFreeze FAQ:

To uninstall the software Deep Freeze must first be disabled and then uninstalled.

To disable Deep Freeze:

  1. Hold down the shift key and double-click on the Deep Freeze icon. Alternatively, you can press Crtl-Alt-Shift-F6. You should now see a password dialog.
  2. Enter your password and click OK. If you have not yet entered a password you should be able to click OK without entering anything. You should now see a dialog with boot options.
  3. Select "Boot thawed" and click OK. This will disable Deep Freeze on the next reboot.
  4. Reboot your machine. After the machine reboots you are ready to uninstall Deep Freeze.

To uninstall:

  1. Locate the installation file you used to install Deep Freeze to this machine. By default the name of this file is called "DF5Std.exe" for versions 5.X and "DF6Std.exe" for versions 6.X.
  2. Run the installation file (DF5Std.exe or DF6Std.exe).
  3. Select the option to "Uninstall"
  4. The software should uninstall and reboot the machine. When the machine reboots, Deep Freeze should be uninstalled.
Second method (if you don't know the password) is to use a program called Deep Unfreezer v1.6

Warning: Use the program at your own risk. Use only as a last resort. I take no responsibility or the author to any damage it can produce. Please backup your important files /registry as necessary.


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16 comments:

  1. AnonymousMarch 27, 2008 at 8:31 PM

    unfreezer doesnt work.my pc is still frozen.and you cant even see a tray icon,nor ctrl+alt+shift+f6 doesn't work.

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  2. AdminMarch 28, 2008 at 3:09 AM

    well, it seems that you have a corrupt installation of deep freeze. as far as i know, the only choice you have now is reformatting your hard drive

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  3. AnonymousJuly 5, 2010 at 1:39 AM

    It doesn't work for my Deep Freeze 6.

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  4. AnonymousNovember 14, 2010 at 2:50 AM

    HELP ME......I dont know how to unfreeze my computer....I cant even see the icon of deepfreeze.....please email me or add me in facebook..john_thelast@yahoo.com

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  5. engineeringNovember 29, 2010 at 2:41 AM

    how can we uninstall, we cant see the icon itself. Please advise. Thanks

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  6. JinDecember 15, 2010 at 2:04 AM

    Hey... all u8 have to do is go to task manager and look for frz2state.exe end that process ok.. then reboot

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  7. AnonymousDecember 18, 2010 at 7:13 PM

    help me: i can't see the option to 'uninstall'.
    my email:jessa.tenio@yahoo.com
    or jessatenio@yahoo.com

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  8. AnonymousJanuary 8, 2011 at 7:23 PM

    Admin,

    aside from not seeing the deep freeze tray icon and ctrl+alt+shift+f6, reformatting the hard drive also does not work for me.

    since reformatting often requires me to reboot, everything goes to its deep freeze state after one reboot during formatting.

    btw i am using df6 and installed it using windows recommended settings since i am using windows 7.

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  9. AnonymousJanuary 25, 2011 at 5:39 PM

    I didn't know anything about deep freeze until my cousin installed it in my pc without me knowing. I was able to disable it (accidentally) when I updated the system time/date by entering the setup menu upon bootup because I noticed that the time/date always revert back to a particular date. It worked. But, I do hope it didn't do any harm to my pc. Or did it?

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  10. AnonymousApril 20, 2011 at 12:36 AM

    what is deep freeze? im just curious thnks...

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  11. AnonymousJune 27, 2011 at 7:45 PM

    Deep freeze is an excellent program if you have a computer shop / internet cafe and you don't want the headache and hassle of reformatting your PC everytime your computer encounter a serious problem

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  12. AnonymousJuly 26, 2011 at 10:44 PM

    owe my!!.. guys pls help me how to disable deepfrez

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  13. AnonymousAugust 2, 2011 at 6:15 PM

    it works...thanks for the info..^^

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  14. ashishSeptember 19, 2011 at 7:50 AM

    Defreez not worked..I cant open defreez using alt+ctrl+Shift+f6
    Give me suggetion
    Ashish Barad

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  15. AnonymousSeptember 30, 2011 at 4:58 AM

    I cannot see the Dfree icon on the tray icon . I want to unistall, please help me.

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  16. AnonymousSeptember 30, 2011 at 5:01 AM

    Please help , i cannot see the Df icon on the icon tray. What do I do?

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