Faronics Insight DOES allow monitoring of student computers and the ability to remotely control their devices. The ability to see their screens is helpful, as well as being able to open or close programs for them and share my own screen.

Deep Freeze takes a snapshot of the computer it's installed on, saves it in a partition, and restores that snapshot every time the computer is rebooted. This is a godsend for school computer labs, and any other situation where users might cause destruction to the OS, such as accidentally downloading malicious files or changing configurations they're not supposed to. One quick reboot and the computer is restored to its former glory. There are four components to the system: the Seed, which prepares a unit to receive Deep Freeze, the Workstation client, which is installed on PCs to be managed, the Configuration Administrator, which allows you to set policies for your clients, such as when they get Windows Updates or when they shut down, and the Enterprise Console, which is installed on a network server in order to manage clients. The Seed and Workstation Client need no explanation, they're a simple and quick install like any other executable. The Enterprise Console is simple to use and understand, and has a lot of other options such as Wake on LAN support, Windows Update, and remote launching apps on the client.

My first implementation of Deep Freeze was for a couple of public use kiosk systems in a hotel. I was having to do system cleanups from drive-by malware infections on these systems roughly every 3-4 weeks. I installed Deep Freeze on the systems as a test and after 2 years now I have yet to do a cleanup on either system. Very simple to unfreeze the OS to do regular updates and maintenance and freeze it again. Onsite hotel staff can simply reboot a system if a user borks it up and have it back up and running in minutes, no service call needed.