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Re:Re-Thinking the Desktop OS by walrus01 on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @10:19PM (#24784141)
some method to reliably run new stuff in a fully sandboxed environment (short of going through the time and effort to copy an entire disposable windows 10 home virtualbox machine), would definitely help with that problem.

linux based ideas like qubes are are a step in that direction.

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Re:Re-Thinking the Desktop OS by fuzzfactor on Thursday October 15, 2020 @03:10AM (#24785751)
Once your full C: volume is backed up to a WIM file it's not too bad even on bare metal. If you keep C: under about 20GB, the resulting WIM is about half that size and easy to deal with.

To deploy using a 30GB partition it only takes about 5 minutes to write zeros to the 30GB, another 5 minutes to quickformat and deploy the WIM file to the fresh partition (in naturally well-defragmented condition), then a judicious BCDBOOT command to make it boot from your present BOOT or EFI folder.

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Re:Re-Thinking the Desktop OS by walrus01 on Thursday October 15, 2020 @04:13AM (#24786106)
that is a great deal slower than the time it takes me to duplicate a ready-to-go windows 10 home virtualbox VM, copying about 25GB of data SSD-to-same-SSD, and then run it.
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Re:Re-Thinking the Desktop OS by OCASM on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @10:45PM (#24784337)
Sandboxie is a good option. Development stopped but on the flipside it's fully free now.
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