It's like Firefox with all the extensions available to your desire, but now applied to Windows. Put some software components together and you get your customized software setup. This sounds to me like modular system administration. Now, this is what I think: reinstalling the system is going to be a breeze: restore the appropriate differential image (why not have several differential images, each of which has a unique setup, for example different antivirus?) and after that import the desired layers. I exported all the layers to VSA files and copied these files to another computer. A layer of softmaker Office 2006, also with hotfixes. So, there I installed SVS, and created layers of ms Office 2000, I updated the layer with the Office hotfixes.

I restored the OEM image, because the documentation advices to create VSA files in a lean system. I created a differential image, which results in a very small file size. Then I added some applications that I need anyway or that are not supported well by layers, like Antivirus and Perfectdisk 7.

I started playing, here are some of my conceptual ideas.įirst I restored an OEM image, and updated the MS hotfixes.

Thinstall virtualization