Hello Guys,
A friend of me, owns an internet cafe. He has recently purchased Asus M32BF Computers for his internet cafe. All the computers come with Windows 8.1. Two of his computer started behaving unexpectedly so asked me check. The computer were full with bloatwares and weren't running smoothly at. So with my friend's permission I decided to configure one computers my way.
Here is what I did:
Speaking of normal setup, he buys his computer, from a company that send computers pre-configured to use in his internet cafe setup. It will be all normal softwares installed, configured and then computer will be protected with a protection software called Deep Freeze. What this software does is, upon restart it, deletes/ restores all the files created, modified or deleted during last session. So after restart, computer is back to the state, how it was at the time when it arrived to my friend. But over the time, requires software updates and Windows updates.
So my idea was, if we use VHD image for Windows. we just have to update one computer and then copy paste this image to all other computers. For copy paste management, we have the original factory version of Windows 8.1, that we can access at boot time. Untill this point is everything fine. Problem is that I can't find a way to implement the Restart/ Refresh system.
I mean the file created/ deleted/ modified by user would remain in the computer this way, I want to be able to have the advantage of original setup, all gone upon restart.
I did tried Deep Freeze, the software supplied by computer supplier. It didn't worked in VHD setup.
I tried protecting only the VHD drive with it, but not the original mother drive where VHD file exists. it didn't worked.
Then I tried protecting all drives, VHD/ virtual and actual. it didn't worked, plus it caused some extra trouble as after protecting all drives, I couldn't boot into the Originally installed Windows (factory image).
so question is, is there a way I can protect (freeze) the VHD drive either from inside or outside in a way that after each reboot, it will return back to the state it was previously in before user created/modified/deleted files etc.
Ofcourse we don't want the data, cookies or whatever created by user A to be accessible by user B coming after A, nor do we want a user to install/ leave installed any crapware he had to install during usage that can trouble our computer.
A friend of me, owns an internet cafe. He has recently purchased Asus M32BF Computers for his internet cafe. All the computers come with Windows 8.1. Two of his computer started behaving unexpectedly so asked me check. The computer were full with bloatwares and weren't running smoothly at. So with my friend's permission I decided to configure one computers my way.
Here is what I did:
- Factory restored the computer (in factory image are also many bloatwares installed)
- Left the factory restored Windows just so.
- I installed a clean Windows 8.1 to VHD image file in he computer.
- Set the VHD file as default boot drive and set the waiting delay to 1 second, so normally it will be seemless
- Now inside this VHD Windows, I installed the drivers and softwares required for internet cafe, configured it as would normally be.
Speaking of normal setup, he buys his computer, from a company that send computers pre-configured to use in his internet cafe setup. It will be all normal softwares installed, configured and then computer will be protected with a protection software called Deep Freeze. What this software does is, upon restart it, deletes/ restores all the files created, modified or deleted during last session. So after restart, computer is back to the state, how it was at the time when it arrived to my friend. But over the time, requires software updates and Windows updates.
So my idea was, if we use VHD image for Windows. we just have to update one computer and then copy paste this image to all other computers. For copy paste management, we have the original factory version of Windows 8.1, that we can access at boot time. Untill this point is everything fine. Problem is that I can't find a way to implement the Restart/ Refresh system.
I mean the file created/ deleted/ modified by user would remain in the computer this way, I want to be able to have the advantage of original setup, all gone upon restart.
I did tried Deep Freeze, the software supplied by computer supplier. It didn't worked in VHD setup.
I tried protecting only the VHD drive with it, but not the original mother drive where VHD file exists. it didn't worked.
Then I tried protecting all drives, VHD/ virtual and actual. it didn't worked, plus it caused some extra trouble as after protecting all drives, I couldn't boot into the Originally installed Windows (factory image).
so question is, is there a way I can protect (freeze) the VHD drive either from inside or outside in a way that after each reboot, it will return back to the state it was previously in before user created/modified/deleted files etc.
Ofcourse we don't want the data, cookies or whatever created by user A to be accessible by user B coming after A, nor do we want a user to install/ leave installed any crapware he had to install during usage that can trouble our computer.
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8.1
- Computer type
- Laptop
- System Manufacturer/Model
- HP Pavilion g6-2300sg
- CPU
- Intel Core i3-3120M
- Memory
- 8 GB DDR3
- Graphics Card(s)
- AMD Radeon HD 7670M (1 GB DDR3 dedicated)
- Screen Resolution
- 1366 X 768
- Hard Drives
- SANDISK SanDisk Ultra® II Solid State Drive
- Browser
- Google Chrome
- Antivirus
- Panda Free Antivirus