Originally Posted by
BDAPTY
I have two virtual machines (MS Virtual PC) on my Vista laptop. On one of them, I use it to run MS Office and all my other XP applications.
On the other one, I use it for Internet browsing and general testing of new applications. When a deadly virus hits the virtual machine or I have installed/uninstalled too many applications, I simply delete the machine and create a new one. It's just about two hours of work versus a whole day to re-install all my applications plus the stress of possibly losing my data.
Or run it in replay mode and just roll back the changes and save the rebuild process time. It is a good approach but there are some issues that go with it, like issues with the clipboard, integrated applications that are in the base install and similar, but those can be worked around. And running in replay mode does have a minor additional performance hit.