Faronics DeepFreeze is a very powerful application. It virtually prevents all unwanted changes in your computer by freezing an entire hard drive or partition without restricting user access. Deep Freeze is perfect for work stations and is commonly used as a security software to maintain system integrity without sacrificing user experience. Due to this, it is completely logical for the application’s makers to impose a bit of security on to it. The Developers apparently have removed access to any Deep Freeze uninstall utility or procedure because it imposes threat on the software’s purpose.
This security feature may sound quite appealing, however some users that wants Deep Freeze removed are left hanging and does not know where to start on how to uninstall Deep freeze from their system. In this post I will be showing you three different ways to uninstall or remove Faronics Deep Freeze in your system. I will be using the latest version 6.2 of Deep Freeze Standard as an example.
Disable Faronics DeepFreeze
The first way is simple. All you you have to do is disable DeepFreeze using the program’s interface. Disabling it is actually good as uninstalling, as the program no longer interferes with your system as you make changes to it. Unless, you decide to re-enable it in the future. To disable Deep Freeze, all you have to is double click while pressing the shift key (shift + double click) on the Deep Freeze system tray icon [
], which is located in the lower right hand corner of your screen. After doing so, you then see a new window (see image below), which prompts you to enter a password. If you have a custom password then you may enter it accordingly, if you have not set any password yet then try pressing “OK“.
After entering the correct password, you will be directed to another window (see image below), which shows you several options for configuring Deep Freeze. To disable Deep Freeze, all you have to do is select the “Boot Thawed” option and click “Apply and Reboot“. This will reboot your system, so it is important for you to make sure that you have saved all unsaved work before restarting.
You have just disabled Deep Freeze! And you are free to make any changes on your system without worrying Deep Freeze changing your system. By the way, you can always re-enable Deep Freeze by repeating the whole process and selecting the “Boot Frozen” option in the window shown above.
I personally use this step. I find this very practical because I test a lot softwares and I really don’t want them adding unwanted files into my system. After I have tested an application, all I have to do is restart my system and every bit of that software is removed!
Disable All Faronics Deep Freeze Services
The second way to uninstall DeepFreeze involves the first procedure above plus another added step. While the procedure above may be enough, it still shows an icon of Deep Freeze [] in your system tray. This icon is completely useless, it only indicates that you have deep freeze in your system and the red x means that it is disabled. To remove this icon all you have to do is disable the Deep Freeze service from the start-up. You can do this by typing the command services.msc in the run dialog box. Once you are in the services window, locate the service name DFserv and right click on it and select properties (refer to image below).
After clicking properties, stop and disable the service. Refer to the image below for instructions. Note that a restart is needed for changes to take effect on your system.
After restarting, at this point you no longer have any Deep Freeze service or application running at the background of your system. Also the system Deep Freeze Icon should be gone. You are still able re-enable Deep Freeze by reversing the whole process.
Completely Remove Deep Freeze
If you really need to completely remove Deep Freeze from your system then you must complete the first step, which is to Disable Faronics Deep Freeze . Restart your computer. After restarting locate the Deep Freeze installer [
] and run it, it should prompt the whole removal process and all you have to do is follow the steps. I have provided screen-shots below to further assist you.
Click Next…
Click Uninstall and you’re done.
There, I just taught you how to remove/disable Deep Freeze in three different ways. Feel free to choose which method suites you best. If you have any questions or suggestions, feel free to post your comments below. Good Luck!
Thnks! its a Big help.. my deepfreeze icon tray didnt show up, even i press ctrl+alt+shift+f6 it won show up… after i installed it, it didnt ask for password… it automatically restarted then.. bwalla… can disabble it
thanks for the help!
any way of unistlling it? cause i cant uninstall it even disabbled
have you tried the steps above? If yes, can you elaborate more on your Issue? like what DeepFreeze Version are you using?
hello
i have question
when i finished the first step,i can’t find the installer
why??
What version of Deep Freeze do you have?
please help me
i can’t find the deep freeze icon
tq for the help
what will happened if i just disable and not stop the service. The system will not allow me to stop it. Will deep freeze still be removed?
DeepFreeze will be disabled in your next restart.
Hello there:
I have installed: (deep_freeze_standard_6 00 020 1523) after I installed it, I can’t open the program. every time I open the program, it’s simply NOT RESPONDING, I can’t thaw it. Is there any solution? Please help. Thank you
Have you done the steps above?
i’ve done two of the step but i cant do the last one, theres no more icon on the task bar but when i search the file its still in my system c:\program file\faronics, when i open the folder and click on the icon theres no action, i mean the installation or uninstall operation… so i delete the folder directly but after i restart my pc the folder is there again it seems like it has frooze my c: and d: even i’ve disable it,, this is very confusing and please help me to remove it..ps its df5serv v 6.. Thank you..
I see that you are using an older version of DeepFreeze… This application should help you:
http://usuarios.arnet.com.ar/fliamarconato/pages/edeepunfreezer.html
the website you give us cant solve the problemm..
Hi there! What exactly is the issue?
the problem i have is deep freeze icon is missing so i can’t do the shift double click, can you please tell me how to show the icon again on the taskbars,thanks for you help, i appreciated
Thanks a lot. I am able to uninstall deep freeze…
I’ve installed deep freeze(version 6.30.060.1818)on my first PC(OS windows XP)for quite some time, so I can say that I’m bit familiar using it. I tried to install the same version on my new PC (OS: windows7 64bit). However, no deep freeze icon appear on the right lower corner of the screen. my problem now is I cannot perform the first step( I cant find the icon) thus I cant disable the deep freeze. I tried doing the 2nd step, skipping the first step but it won’t work. Please help.
Hello, I have a situation here. recently installed deepfreeze 6 standard on my computer. I accidentally deleted my faronics folder when my comp was unfrozen and was on safe boot. When i booted it in normal mode at the same time freezing it my whole system just got stuck. I don’t see the DF logo on my system tray. I tried to uninstall it but i can’t cause I deleted the DF folder which holds the DF uninstaller. I tried the date changing method that people recommended but to no avail. Can anyone help me? I’ve been searching for ways to “free” my computer of this problem for 4 days now. I’m losing all hope. I don’t want to resort to reformatting my system since I have allot of work related files and stuff that I don’t want to use. Hope you guys can help me out.
Best regards,
Darriel
thanks men, hope it works, u r an angel
so many thank you
thank u so much!!!!
What about when the machine is FROZEN and you cannot unthaw it because the tray icon is missing and not recoverable? The CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+F6 trick didn’t bring it back either. I tried disabling and stopping the service, which worked, but comes back again when restarting. In addition, I do not find DF5Serv in my Add/Remove programs. In the Start->All Programs, it’s not there either. Note: I first installed Deep Freeze Enterprise, then thought I needed to install a client version too. So I think I’m doubly screwed, although I’m not seeing that the client is installed.
I would LOVE to install Windows XP again, will that work? I might try it, but would love your feedback anyway.
None of the above steps work for me because I cannot unthaw first. Can I just reinstall Windows XP? (I already have my files backed up anyway as this is a fresh installation of Win XP.)
That would be the quickest solution to your issue..