From: BitTwister@mouse-potato.com   
      
   On Fri, 28 Mar 2014 22:02:21 +1100, Daniel wrote:   
      
   > Dumb question, maybe, but if I did run Win7 on a Linux VirtualBox, would   
   > I still get all the updates, etc, applied??   
      
   Only if you bring up the Win7 guest.   
      
   Once a month I bring mine up, update firefox, manually run the M$   
   update program, reboot guest, run update again, reboot until no   
   updates, run disk cleanup, defragger and save current state of Win7   
   guest. Next Win7 launch is up in ~3 seconds.   
      
   Come tax day, I clone Win7 to Win7_clone, boot it, install TurboTax, get TT   
   updates, do taxes, save files, and delete Win7_clone.   
      
   You can take a snapshot and revert it, but having had one of those   
   fail several years ago, I have not bothered with it since. Anything   
   besides getting updates is done in the clone. I have no desire to   
   spend the whole day installing, updating, rebooting to get a pristine   
   Win7 install.   
      
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