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From: "Robert Comer"
> But suppose I add a site to "Favourites". Does that get
lost, too? Is
> there an alternative method where I can save the new favourite but still
> have "undo disk" perform its magic?
Yes, it would get lost too, and no, there's no easy way around that. You'd
have to be very specific about your actions to add the shortcut without
doing anything else in the session, then write the changes to disk.
Of course you could keep all your shortcuts on a web page somewhere else
out on the web.
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Bob Comer
"John Beamish" wrote in message
news:op.thvjar00m6tn4t{at}dellblack.wlfdle.phub.net.cable.rogers.com...
> But suppose I add a site to "Favourites". Does that get
lost, too? Is
> there an alternative method where I can save the new favourite but still
> have "undo disk" perform its magic?
>
> On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 01:50:24 -0400, Rich Gauszka
> wrote:
>
>> Microsoft has a nice feature ( 'undo disks' ) in Virtual PC to
>> facilitate a
>> browser sandbox. You could probaly do something similar in VMware using a
>> 'linked clone'
>>
>> http://www.devx.com/vmspecialreport/Article/30377
>>
>> The single most valuable feature of using a virtual machine for browsing
>> is
>> the undo capability. Microsoft implements this with its undo disks
>> feature.
>> The idea is simple: Whatever takes place in the guest machine, such as
>> inadvertently downloading spyware, is written to another file instead of
>> the
>> principal virtual hard disk file where the OS and applications are
>> installed. When the browsing session ends, the guest machine is turned
>> off
>> without saving any of the changes that occurred while it was running.
>> The undo disks feature is off by default, so you must enable it.
>>
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