The next tool I couldn’t live without is Deep Freeze. We have the Enterprise Edition and I use it the most.
I don’t have my students shutdown, so they can work bell to bell. Instead, I use a couple of mouse clicks to shut down the computers are they are leave.
The other thing it does, is make an image of the computer — that way the students can do whatever they want to the computer during the class period, including change the appearance of the desktop and when the computer reboots, it is back in the state I wanted it in.
I can’t tell you how nice that is. I was away to TCEA several years ago, and I ended up having to uninstall programs off of every computer, they were an absolute mess.
Also, if a computer starts acting up — not uncommon when we’re programming, we often inadvertively cause a memory leak, we just reboot and life is nice again. Of course, we need to fix that program.
I do have to remember to turn it off when I use the next tool I’m going to write about — Symantec Ghost.