Windows XP roll-back

[mrCide]

Not sure if there's a 3rd party application (I'm thinking there's no automated way to do this without a 3rd party) that would basically roll-back the machine to a specified 'state' or 'image' whenever the machine is restarted. We'd like to give local admin rights on some workstations knowing that they will be tampered with, but have them roll-back every morning when they're turned back on.

Any ideas?

 

[mechBgon]

Look up DeepFreeze, I heard good things about it from my sister who's a librarian. They use it on their lappies.

 

[mrCide]

I believe this is what I'm looking for, thanks for the response.

 

[mikeyes]

This is a product from Microsoft that you can download for free. I used the previous product to protect our public terminal computers and it works great.

http://www.microsoft.com/windo...ss/whatis/default.mspx

 

[corkyg]

I can attest to the effectiveness of DeepFreeze. I am a volunteer instructor for SeniorNet in Tucson at Udall Center. We have a classroom lab with 9 student stations and 1 instructor station - all networked. We have DeepFreeze installed so that any reboot automatically restores each machine to a basic standard. Changes made by students are thus deleted on reboot. Works great!

We have a tech committee that has the password etc. to turn DeepFreeze off when we want to change or upgrade all machines. This keeps things in good order.

 

[Captante]

Another vote of confidence for DeepFreeze here ... I've played around quite a bit with it including intentionally running malware on several PC's & have been able to completely un-do every bit of damage without a hitch.