Thank you all for the suggestions. Quite interesting to read how many
approaches
everyone is using.
Just for the record, I've downloaded Acronis True Image which provides
back up
utilities, disk cleaning/wiping utilities, and an image utility. Seems
rather fast
and does not slow down the W
Jim,
> What would you suggest?
There is a completely free and extremely easy solution for you to have a
testbed XP system that is always going to be clean:
1) Download Virtual PC 2007
http://tinyurl.com/2jr7a7
aka
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/virtualpc/default.mspx
2)
Jim-
I keep a clean VMWare XP install image for purposes like this. When I
need to test something in a clean environment I make a copy of the
virgin image, mount it, and install whatever onto it. If anything goes
south I can just delete the image and start again. No need to endanger
my work enviro
Jim,
I have been using Windows for several years now (was a Mac user in the
past-work pulled me to Windows)-have recenlty bought a Mac mini to test the
Mac side of my programs. I use the latest Norton Internet Security software
(I don't see any bogging down of the system that others have ment
running on a
different
OS. Debian or PCLinux would be my choice of distro on older hardware.
Interesting to hear someone mention Acronis. Yes. Never lets you down.
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Jim,
I use WinXP everyday on 3 different computers, plus my daughter has one as
does my wife. I've installed the free AVG and have can't remember the last
time I had a virus, or my daughter, or my wife.
The last time I had any major problems was when a RevDeleteFolder command
got passed an empty
I do most of my development on OS X but also make some Windows apps.
I have an older machine that runs XP and it never goes on the internet,
I use it to test basic development. When living in the city
(Valletta), to
test internet features for a Windows app I'd simply drop it on a USB
flash dri
