Hi There,
Just to add to the discussion, I am really keen on Virtual Box , which runs on most systems, it's like having another computer running inside your own, in fact you can have more than 1 ! Virtual box is an isolated enviroment, so NOTHING running in VB can get into your computer a bit like UK Bobbies Sandboxie. I run Ubuntu 12 at the moment, but I have VB running a windows XP machine, I also have other Clones running other operating systems, it's wonderful. I always keep a clean copy of XP for example which is done by a simple snapshot, very quick, not like the slow old '' Ghost '' syatem I used to use, same for the others ( Also this doesn't take a load of space on your disc ) Even with VB machines I still have anti virus etc on the XP version, but any problems and I can just erase the version I'm using without losing any data.
https://www.virtualbox.org/ This is not a very good description of VB but I for one am really thrilled with it
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