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| Thread ID: 94002 | 2008-10-10 00:33:00 | How do I provide a standardised desktop? | Tony (4941) | Press F1 |
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| 711218 | 2008-10-11 02:21:00 | Why not use VirtualPC then, thats free, and allows you to save or not save a state on shutdown...? Just looked this up and it says only for XP pro :( I only have XP home |
gary67 (56) | ||
| 711219 | 2008-10-11 02:39:00 | Just looked this up and it says only for XP pro :( I only have XP homeMaybe that's why I didn't go with it at the time, as I only had XP Home. However I now have Vista Business, so it might be time to have another look. | Tony (4941) | ||
| 711220 | 2008-10-12 22:15:00 | Moka5......!, VMware PC on a USB stick!!! | SolMiester (139) | ||
| 711221 | 2008-10-13 05:10:00 | Maybe that's why I didn't go with it at the time, as I only had XP Home. However I now have Vista Business, so it might be time to have another look. It will run on xphome M$ just dont support it in the xphome environment that's all. I ran a 98 on M$ virtual machine on xp home for a while. 98 runs really well with 512 ram :lol: |
beama (111) | ||
| 711222 | 2008-10-13 06:02:00 | It will run on xphome M$ just dont support it in the xphome environment that's all. I ran a 98 on M$ virtual machine on xp home for a while. 98 runs really well with 512 ram :lol: Thanks was looking for some one to clarify that |
gary67 (56) | ||
| 711223 | 2008-10-13 06:21:00 | gary you'll probably know this but be careful there are no guarantees and there is always a reason for M$ not supporting a product. test it on machine that you can afford the os to be trashed just in case. | beama (111) | ||
| 711224 | 2008-10-13 06:57:00 | Yeah I'm building up a spare just for this sort of thing, not intending to trash this machine as too much work rebuilding it every time | gary67 (56) | ||
| 711225 | 2008-10-17 07:14:00 | Hi all, I was very interested in this thread as I also am involved with a SeniorNet group and know well how much misery can be caused by inexperienced idle fingers on a keyboard or mouse! I have installed a trial of Deep Freeze, mapped My Documents to an "unfrozen" or "Thawed" disk and any data files created can be sent to a folder there......Brilliant! I now have a question for the Technology Experts in PF1. If Deep Freeze is set and running on C: drive where all the system files, program files etc are running does this now make an Anti-virus and Firewall obsolete or does one have to "Thaw" the drive periodically to keep that software updated? JonB |
JonB (1885) | ||
| 711226 | 2008-10-18 09:27:00 | Yeah they say VirtualPC is only good on XP Pro but I've used it on XP Home and it seemed to work OK | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 711227 | 2008-10-18 20:40:00 | Hi all, I was very interested in this thread as I also am involved with a SeniorNet group and know well how much misery can be caused by inexperienced idle fingers on a keyboard or mouse! I have installed a trial of Deep Freeze, mapped My Documents to an "unfrozen" or "Thawed" disk and any data files created can be sent to a folder there......Brilliant! I now have a question for the Technology Experts in PF1. If Deep Freeze is set and running on C: drive where all the system files, program files etc are running does this now make an Anti-virus and Firewall obsolete or does one have to "Thaw" the drive periodically to keep that software updated? JonB it does where I work ( 600 clients,we use Hdguard) and there is a but,watch out for the unprotected area of the pc it is open to infection. If you run anti virus and worried about update it just means that each time the machine is switched off and on it repeats the update yes it causes more network traffic and maybe increase internet traffic but this can be over come by downloading the signature files and pointing the updater at a network share. Firewalls I would hope you use a Proxy/firewall setup negating the need of individual pc firewalls |
beama (111) | ||
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