Msg: Re: Windows 10 is creeping into your system, it is time to make a decision!

Kari,

I might need an in-depth tutorial on that process. Your brief summary of this may make it sound a lot easier than it really is ? Are you talking about running a Win 7 VM inside of a Win 7 host ? Wouldn't that degrade performance significantly -- at least on below i-5 systems ?

As HDDs are not particularly expensive these days (I mostly use WD Black 1 Tb.s for boot drives, and 2Tb. ones for storage, per system), one other thing I do sometimes is make a clone of the boot drive, for a drop-in replacement that does not even require an Acronis restore. These also require being redone periodically of course, to keep them reasonably current.

Jordan

From: Kari Eveli
To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx
Sent: Sunday, November 29, 2015 9:58 AM
Subject: Re: Windows 10 is creeping into your system, it is time to make a decision!

Jordan,

Daily backups are a must, and a godsend in case of hiccups. If the worst
happens, you just roll back. With virtual machines, the process is
really smooth. Ideally, your main operating system should just be a host
for dispensable virtual machines.

Best regards,

Kari Eveli
LEXITEC Book Publishing (Finland)
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29.11.2015, 18:59, J R FOX kirjoitti:
> A few times I've had to resort to wiping a drive and putting back an
> Acronis boot partition image that was not nearly as recent as I would
> have liked, then building it back to where it was when the system got
> nuked. (A full reinstall from scratch would be completely
> unacceptable and unthinkable to me.) My time is too valuable to have
> to pour a lot of it into this crap ! So, NO, I'm going to minimize
> their chances of doing this again.