LivePC Engine User Guide - Bare Metal
Working in a LivePC Environment
Installing applications on a LivePC
When you run a LivePC™, the LivePC Engine™ can keep track of local system changes, such as installing new applications, that you make to your LivePC.
When you perform a full shutdown of the LivePC , any system changes that you have made to the computer are stored in the LivePC Engine. The next time that LivePC is started, the LivePC Engine can either delete these system changes and boot up with a clean copy of the original LivePC system, or it can boot up the LivePC with all of the changes you have made.
The default behavior is for the LivePC Engine to delete all of your system changes and boot up with a clean copy of the original LivePC system! This ensures that you get a fresh LivePC every time you do a full shutdown and start the LivePC again from the LivePC Engine menu. Viruses, spyware, and other unwanted system changes are eliminated.
If you use the operating system's reboot command to restart a LivePC internally, then the LivePC will keep all of the system changes that you made to it. These system changes will persist until you do a complete shutdown and start again from the LivePC Engine menu. At that point all of the system changes you made, even across multiple operating system reboots, will be deleted.
If you want the LivePC Engine to keep your previous system changes the next time a LivePC is started from the LivePC Engine menu, you can set this through the 'Configure' command. After clicking on 'Configure', you first need to deselect the 'Let the subscription automatically update this LivePC' option. This will pop up a warning about the impact of disabling automatic subscription updates - click 'OK' to acknowledge this warning. Then click on 'Let me make my own changes to this LivePC' and close the Configure window. Now when you start the LivePC, it will include any system changes made last time that you used the LivePC.
If you want to go back to the clean copy of the LivePC, go to the Configure command and deselect "Let me make my own changes to this LivePC." Reselect "Let the subscription automatically update this LivePC." The next time that you start the LivePC, it will delete all of the system changes you ever made and boot a clean copy of that LivePC.
