Automatic o/s reset on a dedicated internet browsing Windows 7 pc.

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Published on 2010-02-04T23:10:45Z Indexed on 2010/03/12 0:38 UTC
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I have just purchased a new Acer Revo nettop PC for dedicated internet browsing. It will be the only pc on a home network.

My original plan was to install one virtual PC for family browsing, another for remote web based server administration and ban browser use from the host Windows 7 o/s. The idea was that I could recover to a fresh VHD image once a week to eliminate any build up of malware inside the browser VMs.

However now I am looking for alternative solutions since the Intel Atom cpu does not have hardware VT support which Windows Virtual PC requires.

Would it be possible to engineer some type of routine overnight host o/s wipe and recovery? I guess cyber cafes do something like this? The only user data that would need to be retained across a recovery would be browser bookmarks but these could be exported to remote service.

Edit 1: I am thinking the o/s reset could be done via some disk image recovery process.

Edit 2: Just had a brainwave. Routine browsing could be done via the new Google Chrome O/S. I have just seen a video of the Google Chrome o/s booting off a usb pen drive in seconds.

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