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Because sometimes they buy a new computer and it is a while before I am able to visit them across the planet and install a new OS in it. Would really like a goo
by dman 8y ago
Because sometimes they buy a new computer and it is a while before I am able to visit them across the planet and install a new OS in it. Would really like a good out of the box experience.
- Schlaefer 8y agoYou don't need to install a new OS, you just enter a Windows Pro license key to upgrade the version? Buy the key online, send it to your parents, tell them where to enter it, done. Also I don't think your parents want to use that particular sandbox. There's no persistence at all: no bookmarks, no cookies, no history, no local documents, ...
- dman 8y agoThe no persistence is why I like it. It would be ideal if I could ask my parents to do their entire browsing in an ephemeral sandbox and even if they end up clicking / installing something from a shady link it wont blow away their (real) persistent OS install.
- joshAg 8y agoTotally get that issue. It might be worth spending a day or weekend making a boot-disk for them that will wipe their current disk image, and install win10 pro with it set-up so you can remote admin it. That way for your parents they just have to buy the pc, put the usb in and reboot it, and then call you when it's back on so you can remote in and give it a key and finish configuring it for them. I suppose even that might cause issues if you can't teach them or walk them through via facetime how to set the device to boot from the usb instead of the harddrive.