<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Thanks Alex,<br><br></div>Good point about Clones of the VM - I hadn't thought about that, and didn't realize it only stores the differences against the original - that sounds really useful more broadly too.<br><br></div>Thanks!<br></div>mike.<br><div><div><br><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 1:17 PM, Alex M <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tech_dev@wildintellect.com" target="_blank">tech_dev@wildintellect.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">On 01/11/2016 10:59 AM, Michael Treglia wrote:<br>
> Hi Everybody,<br>
><br>
> I'm updating some training material I use in a course, and want to make<br>
> sure I'm viewing things as new users with a clean install would (while<br>
> maintaining a copy with everything as I want it configured). I've figured<br>
> out a way to do this, but wanted to see if others have a better solution.<br>
><br>
> My method that works just fine (and lets me do screenshots and such) is to<br>
> work on QGIS within a Ubuntu virtual machine, from my host Windows pc.<br>
><br>
> It seems like a slightly easier way would be to have a separate install of<br>
> QGIS on Windows - tried that using two different install methods on the<br>
> same user account (OSGeo4W vs Standalone installer), but the standalone<br>
> picked up the settings from my OSGeo install. To work as desired, would<br>
> that have to be done on a separate user account?<br>
><br>
> Thanks for your thoughts - Cheers,<br>
> mike<br>
><br>
><br>
<br>
</div></div>+1 Virtual Machine<br>
It's the only real way to ensure it's 100% separate. You can also make<br>
cheap clones of the VM (only stores the differences), so that you always<br>
have a clean base VM to roll back to.<br>
<br>
I suppose you could login to a different windows account and that would<br>
at least not look at your users customization. But I'm not sure if all<br>
other settings would be unique.<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
Alex<br>
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