using deepfreeze with weavefuture timer

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UfukD
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using deepfreeze with weavefuture timer

Post by UfukD »

Hi

For a couple of months now i'm using your AK5 and software on my kiosks. The first time i bought and installed one, i used the 3.7.5 version then. I installed deepfreeze on it, and now every restart gives me a fresh clean kiosk. I can use it without problems. I can disable deepfreeze to update windows and antivirus for example, or install software, and then enable back deepfreeze. On that kiosk it's working fine. Until now i had no problems and i'm happy with your product.

So i bought more of your products for more kiosks. Meanwhile the software is at version 3.7.8. I installed it and i wanted to install deepfreeze again, this is going fine but when i disable deepfreeze and restart the computer so i can install software or update windows, the computer crashes and doesn't start up anymore. It's like that deepfreeze messes up the partition or windows, i don't know. Another problem is that i can't use the CTRL-ALT-SHIFT-F6 combination. On my first kiosk it isn't a problem, i can use it there. I thought that the problem was with the new version of the timer so i installed the 3.7.5 version of your software but the problem is still occuring!!?? The combination isn't working also, on my first kiosk it's working well. All my hardware are exactly the same and all my software are the same. I don't know what the problem is.

Do you maybe know how to install deepfreeze on a kiosk with your timer? Your product is very good in combination with deepfreeze, i see that on my first kiosk. People can do whatever they want on the kiosk, after a restart the kiosk is clean and fresh like a fresh install. So it's very important that deepfreeze works in combination with your software, otherwise the kiosk will get spyware and viruses and other crap all the time on it every day.

Please help me with this subject.

Also another problem now is that the timer doesn't get fixed on the place where i want it, i tried almost all your versions from 3.7.5 to the latest version, every time it goes back to it's default place. On my first kiosks this wasn't a problem.

And my latest remark is: what the hell is that porn on this forum???!! Can't you block or delete those??

regards

Ufuk D.
Belgium
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Post by Administrator »

1. thanks for happy with our product.
2. Please let us know your windows version of your new kiosk. The Kiosk Software is just a application, it does not access the partition level of disk. It looks like the hardware failure. You can reinstall windows and the deep freeze to see if there is problem. (please let us know your new windows version)
3. If you do not allow the customer to download files, there will be no spy ware and virus in the computer, the kiosk software can be configured to disable access to hard disk. We will study the deepfreeze software and may be incorporate its features in the future version. I think may be you can refresh the deep freeze once a day, not every time customer use it.
You can post more info how you configured the deep freeze, so we can get to know it quickly.

4. For the CTRL-ALT-SHIFT-F6, we suggest to do as following:
Start->Administrator->Kiosk Settings uncheck the disable all special keys.
then you can use the "CTRL-ALT-SHIFT-F6", Please check it again after you finish using "CTRL-ALT-SHIFT-F6"
Please remember that you make it easy for you to use then leave more holes for attackers.


5 We will check the timer fix problem, in the mean times, make sure it not because the deep freeze reset the it setting. I am not sure if it is possible to leave partial registry setting not reset in deep freeze.


6. We are keeping block and delete the porns and spam, however they are keeping change the IP address and account every times and getting more and more. It is really a uphill battle against dark side .

Thanks for let us know your experiences and point out the bugs.
UfukD
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Post by UfukD »

Hi

I'm using XP SP2 fully updated always.

I don't restart with every customer. I just start the kiosk up at mornings and close it at nights. The next morning when the kiosk is started again, it's clean and fresh.

I use the standard edition of deepfreeze.

I don't think it's a hardware fault, because i tried it on several new computers that i assembled the latest days. All are built with the same motherboard and cpu and ram like the first kiosk i made that is working fine. All are installed with the same cd.

All are configured with the same drivers.

You say that i should uncheck the special keys, but your timer says that i have to reboot every time i change something in the configuration.

The timer bug appears before i install deepfreeze so it has not to do anything with it.

How come only this forum is flooded with this porn, i visit so many other forums which are coded with the same language as yours and they don't have this problem?? Anyway...

I installed 2 kiosks yesterday with AK5's, without deepfreeze this time. I don't think they'll last long because young men visit porn sites everyday and bring spyware and trojans with them. My only good protection was deepfreeze and now it's not working anymore :(

please hurry up with your research.

thank a lot
UfukD
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Post by UfukD »

Hi

I think i found the problem: drivers of the IDE bus.

I'm using Nforce4 chipset based mobo's. On the deepfreeze site they say that some drivers give problems and crashes. Now, i checked my first kiosk, which is working fine, the driver there is not the latest driver of nvidia. The drivers i was using now are the latest drivers.

So i'm hoping the problem is there in the driver section of the mobo :), i'm going to try this out now, hopefully it will solve my problem, then i can deploy more kiosk with a eas mind and sleep on both ears finally :)

I checked your website for those molex power cables but i didn't see them. Can i order them with my next order for AK5's maybe? And by the way, is 10$ not a little but too much for a simple cable :(, i suggest 5$ a cable, should be enough, not?? :)

See ya
UfukD
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Post by UfukD »

well, that didn't help :( :x

F*******ckkk, i'm really getting annoyed here with deepfreeze and nvidia and computers and ...
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Post by Administrator »

Yes, you can order AK5 with these cables. Please send email to sales@weavefuture.com to ask for the cables with your order.
The power cable is specially customized made and it is still lower than market price. It is 1.0 meter long.
UfukD
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Post by UfukD »

fffffiiiiiiiiinallyyyyyy

i figured out the fault :)

Actually i'm not very sure, because i did several handlings but i got deepfreeze working back :)

Back to older version of bios, in the deepfreeze console clicked on SET FLAG, newer realtek sound drivers installed, and now it's working well :) i don't know which step did it but it's working :)

anyway i'm so happy, i could order 100 AK5's :D

The only thing now is that bug i have posted in the bugs section, which is very important.

Ooooh by the way, you don't have to exclude CTRL-ALT-SHIFT-F6 in the future versions because it's not needed. I found out on the deepfreeze site, that you can also call the deepfreeze console by holding down SHIFT button and click twice on the deepfreeze icon in the tray. So the combination it's not that necesarry anymore.

But the F-keys exclution is needed, please work on that because users need them for the MMORG game, and i can't assign them to other keys because the game doesn't have that option. Also people are used to use the F-keys in that game, and are asking for it very much.

Thank you for your support and good luck with the work you do.

See ya

Ufuk D.
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Post by Administrator »

The feature with options to disable/enable F-key will be availalbe in the next release or ASAP since you are going to order 100 AK5s. :D

if 1 AK5 make $10 per day, you will be millionaire in 3 years $10 *100 AK5 * 365 days * 3 years =$1095000)
if 1 AK5 make $20 per day, you will be millionaire in 1.5 years ( $20 *100 AK5 * 365 * 1.5 years =$1095000)
if 1 AK5 make $30 per day, you will be millionaire in 1 years ( $30 *100 AK5 * 365 * 1 years =$1095000)

It is cash, do not forget to pay tax though. :)

thanks
UfukD
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Post by UfukD »

well,

now i'm currently at 9 kiosks, and i have one in spare, in the coming weeks i'm going to order another 5 Ak5's for some more kiosks.

So, slowly but steadily i'm going to the 100 :D

But you never now, if i find more places to put my kiosks, this process can go quicker :)
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