If you are using a licensed version, your best bet is to use the official administrative tools:

Are you writing this for a or an internal IT manual ?

It may fail on the latest 2025–2026 Deep Freeze cloud-based or heavily updated versions, which have tighter security against token interception. The tool is often used as a command-line interface ( meltdown.exe

If you are the of a Deep Freeze–protected machine and have lost the password:

The cat-and-mouse game between Faronics and recovery tool developers will continue. With rumors of Deep Freeze v10 integrating hardware-level Intel CET (Control-flow Enforcement Technology), future password recovery may require chip-off forensics.

As of 2026, Meltdown (and its C-based counterpart, meltdown-c