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Personally, I can recommend a VM for that reason. Activate it once and then just copy the VM over to a new PC, Backup location, etc. Turn on internet access for it when activating, turn it off and leave it disabled for the rest of your life. Worked like a charm for me.
If you're going to run windows in a VM, then what's the point? Why not just run one OS?
Not for one application, while all other programmes run on GNU/Linux.