I use Steady State for several Windows computers labs that I maintain. Since I moved to that I haven't had to re-image the computers for anything except to add new software to the image. I recommend it to everyone. The advantage is that as soon as you restart the computer it resets everything to how it was when you enabled it, automatically installs Windows updates at night, and allows an administrator to choose to save changes on logout. The only issue on a personal computer would be file saving. However, if the system is simply used for internet surfing (or as a public lab computer in my case), that shouldn't be a problem.
Sky On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 8:08 AM, Dave Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > On 08/16/2010 09:20 PM, Brian Phillips wrote: > > Similar to Norton Ghost, or something of the like. > > > > I've been happy with partimage for this purpose. Rolling back to a fresh > XP install takes about 3 minutes. I would set it up like this: > > Partition 1: Linux installation (with partimage) > Partition 2: Windows installation > Grub: Boots windows by default. > > Boot into Linux, and take a disk image of partition 2 and store it on > partition 1. Then, when you need to revert to a fresh XP install, just > boot into Linux, run partimage and restore the XP partition. > > The only tricky part is keeping up with Microsoft updates. Every time a > security patch comes out, you'll probably need to re-image. Using a VM > would probably be easier in this respect. > > --Dave > -------------------- > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > > The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their > author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info (unsubscribe here): http://uug.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/uug-list >
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