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For anything that HAS to work and only runs on Windows (eat a dick Siemens) I put it in a VM with no network connection. A physical machine that gets regular updates is too unstable to rely on.
When ever I'm teaching a new guy I try to get them on board with using VMs at at minimum for reliability and a VM under Linux if they are interested.
I'm having a problem finding VM software I can use for free that isn't a trial, or requires an account/login.
Virtual Box. It's dead easy.
Here goes (installing now)
Proxmox