As most of us are aware Microsoft has officially released Windows 11 yesterday.

At this time Faronics is now testing our products with the final release that was made available yesterday and we will update here with any issues that we find.

The only large issue is that WINSelect's Kiosk functionality does not work in Windows 11 due to the removal of Internet Explorer from Windows 11. Our Developers are working on a build to address this at this time. We will provide an update once a release

Updated - September 24, 2021 11:55AM (PST) - This issue has been resolved and activation requests are now processing.

We are currently aware of customers reporting issues with activating Deep Freeze online - our developers are working on addressing this issue and we will post an update here once that process is complete.

Thanks for your patience while we resolve the issue. 

Update: Our Developers have implemented fixes for this issue - if you are still running into these errors please contact us via email to support@faronics.com and we will get a support ticket open to track the issues further.

We have been made aware of some reports of issues with accessing pages in Deep Freeze Cloud where customers will see a 503 error.

Our operations team is aware of this issue and is working to resolve this issue as quickly as possible. We will post an update here once

We recently released a hotfix of Faronics Anti-Virus that requires attention.

This Faronics Anti-Virus upgrade is required before updating Windows 10 to 21H2 when it is released.

This incompatibility surfaced due to changes introduced in Windows 10 21H2, which modified the interaction between our existing code and the operating system. Please ensure you upgrade your Faronics Anti-Virus to avoid a bluescreen once the machine is updated to Windows 10 21H2.

How to upgrade:

On-Premise: download the

Faronics is happy to announce the availability of Deep Freeze 8.63. 

This release is a bugfix release that resolves several customer issues including;

• 28484 Resolved an issue where Windows 10 workstations randomly hung when Deep Freeze was in a Frozen state. (Case No. DCK-357-11563, QFR-533-92927, VVQ-945-75978, MZX-943-50816…)
• 31618 Resolved an issue where rebooting Deep Freeze to Frozen status from RDP resulted in Deep Freeze rebooting to Frozen & Locked status. (Case No.