From: dxmm@albury.nospam.net.au   
      
   On 29/03/14 00:49, Bit Twister wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   I was going to ask "Why do you bother cloning if you already have Win7   
   set up" but you provided a reasonable reason, so o.k.!!   
      
   When you say you "run update again, reboot until no updates", is this   
   just re-boot Win7 level or re-boot VirtualBox, or re-boot Linux as well??   
      
   Daniel   
      
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