1. The trouble with using the command:
puppy pfix=ram
With a "live" Puppy optical disk...
And no pupsave...
Is that it involves rather too much hassle for my liking, and not enough easy convenience via personalization by configuration choices and package installations.
2. At first I used a dedicated Puppy [with a pupsave and a backup copy to restore if any problem is suspected] to do nothing but banking.
3. Then I discovered the methods used below that allow me to use a pupsave file on a HDD as though it's a pupsave on a Flash Drive.
Naturally...I still make backups of the pupsave file, and restore it if I so much as suspect a problem.
4. Now what I do is:
(a) Do all the stuff that must be done very safely [like banking or online purchases] in their own session, and don't "Save" during the session, nor at shut-down/reboot.
(b) Nothing of that session is saved. No Super-cookies or whatever.
(c) Just in case...I also use Firefox with the BetterPrivacy extension/add-on, and have it set to delete LSO's at both startup and shut-down.
5. The methods to use:
(a)
See this.
And also...
(b)
How to prevent the spurious warning as a pupsave installation of Puppy boots, that the previous shut-down was improper.
6. By-the way...
I ALWAYS use "
Acerose Password Vault" [APV] to keep safe and secure all my passwords etc.
It's a Windows program, that can be used either installed or not->[portable].
I use it portable and use WINE in Puppy to run it.
I use it, and "Copy & paste" username and password etc, from the APV "Edit" window, into the necessary boxes [e.g. at my banking sign-in page].
Hence, My details ALWAYS work.
Only exception to that was/is when my ISP [Virgin] messes with the password for my webmail account.
I use APV because it is REALLY GOOD at what it is designed to do.
I've used it for YEARS, and still delighted with it.
Lots of stuff held in the vault.
Only need to remember my username and password to gain access.