Windows guru requested - Securing Windows

John Brazier ukcrypto at chiark.greenend.org.uk
Wed, 7 Jun 2006 20:12:38 +0100


Peter asked:

> Bot from CD, create a memory FS, union mount it to the main windows fat-32
> FS, with the fat-32 fs mounted read-only, boot Windows? That way any
changes
> to the files would be wiped out when the power was switched off, and the
> fat-32 fs would remain untouched.

> Mount a steganographic FS read/write on eg a USB key (or a different
> partition) on / with a hard-to-guess name. Secret files should be saved to
> this fs.

If your expertise is in something like Linux, why not just boot into a Linux
CD distro and give it a 'Windowsy' GUI for the user? You can still access
FAT32 or NTFS disks (which you want read-only), and I suspect you'd end up
with a lot more memory.

In direct answer to your question, please see http://www.litepc.com/.

ATB

JB