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  1. Sep 18th, 2009, 03:27 AM #1
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    Question Maintain a clean PC

    Hi guys/Gals,
    Many a time it is difficult to visualize how a setup created would work in a client machine. For this ofcourse we would need a clean system. One option is to format the sys after each installation of the proj. Is there any other way (without formatting) to have a clean sys to check setups?

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    Re: Maintain a clean PC

    I think maybe a system restore might work? At least for the registry stuff, but I don't know for sure.

    You can also try a program like SandBoxie...
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    Re: Maintain a clean PC

    Virtual machines... that's what we've used in the past...

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    Re: Maintain a clean PC

    techgnome could you provide more inputs..

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    Re: Maintain a clean PC

    I can only provide my experience... but our IT developed virtual machine images that we could copy to our local machine, then run. When ever we needed a clean environment, we would just grab a new copy of the VM image and run it. We would copy down several copies, allowing us to have clean environments for each of the clients that we worked on.

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    Re: Maintain a clean PC

    Virtual PC supports optional "undo disks."

    These are files that accumulate the changes made to virtual hard drives during sessions. When you "shut down" a VM you are prompted to either discard the contents of the undo disk or merge it into the VHD image.
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