On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 11:08 AM, Chris Kosanovich <[email protected]> wrote:
It's not opensource and it's not free but for $40 you can get powershadow which makes everything transient and resets to a base state every time you restart the computer. This sounds like the simplest solution for what you need. You would set everything up the first time then enable powershadow and if your relative ever gets a virus or does anything bad to their system your support call consists of "reboot your computer".On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 8:20 PM, Brian Phillips <[email protected]> wrote:Have a disabled family member who has a computer as a connection to the
outside world. They don't use it for anything important. No banking,
nothing. Just games and social networking.
This family member is also virus prone. I'd like to give her Linux, but
that would probably cost me more time in support than I'd gain in keeping
her computer clean.
So I'd like to partition her drive, install fresh OS (Windows), and then
image it. The idea being that if she calls me and says "I screwed up the
computer again" I can just direct her how to deploy the image and overwrite
the first partition again. Similar to Norton Ghost, or something of the
like.
Is there something open source that I could use that presents her with a
boot menu with the option to "restore to factory settings" and deploys a
clean image file, overwriting all previous data?
TIA
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The only real downside (apart from the $40 cost) is if they want to install something new and want it to be permanent then they would need you to turn off the protection so they can do that.
-Chris
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