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Old December 28th 17, 07:54 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Paul[_32_]
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J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:


How about the other case: 'files outside your "My Documents" tree are
tracked' also _implies_ that files that _did_ exist when the restore
point was created, but were subsequently deleted, will magically
reappear when it's invoked. This was the bit I found hard to swallow.


That's possible and likely to happen.

Why not test it ? :-)

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This is what VMs are for.

In the pictures I took, I was running WinXP on top of WinXP.

The VM was allocated 512MB, which means even a modest amount
of RAM allows VM testing. In this picture, I show two hosting
softwares, and the VMs inside. You cannot run these programs
at the same time, because they have the same Hypervisor
model and wouldn't "share nice" with one another.

https://s17.postimg.org/f6mg0zvbj/vi...winxp_host.gif

For other OSes, 1GB is a handy amount of RAM to use. And
OSes like Win10, are a bit of a pig unless you have
powerful hardware. A quad core is a good place to start
with something like that. I do run Win10 x32 on top of
WinXP x32 using VirtualBox on a dual core processor,
but it can be pretty damn slow at times. It might take
me two hours to run the simplest of test cases. The CPU
in there, stays pinned at 100% doing stuff I don't care
about, and playing "whack-a-mole" with it, really isn't
all that helpful in the overall scheme of things. Part
of this is the fault of VirtualBox, but most of it is
Windows 10.

Paul
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