1. View the instance in the AMIs and Instances tab in ElasticFox.
2. Right click on it, and choose Connect to Public DNS Name from the popup menu.
3. Remote Desktop will open. There's your server.
4. Username is Administrator, to get the password, in ElasticFox, choose Get Administrator Password from the right-click menu. It puts the password on the clipboard.
5. Bring Remote Desktop to the front and paste in the password.
Bundling an instance into an AMI
1. To reduce startup time, use the Disk Cleanup tool to remove temporary files. To do so, click Start, Run, then enter cleanmgr.exe.
2. Run the Disk Defragmenter utility. Click Start, All Programs, Accessories, System Tools, Disk Defragmenter.
3. In Elasticfox click on the AMIs and Instances tab. Refresh. Right click on the instance, choose Bundle into an AMI. Enter the name of an S3 bucket, be sure the bucket name has no uppercase characters. Enter the name of your instance (rules for name?).
5. Once the image has reached the completed state in the Bundle Tasks tab, register the AMI. RIght click on the bundle to register, choose Register a new AMI from the popup menu.
Relaunching an instance
1. Terminate the instance by right-clicking on it AMI and Instances panel of Elasticfox. It probably would have been a good idea to shut it down in Windows first, but I didn't do that.
2. Attach a volume, if you want to attach it as Drive E, then enter xvde as the device name.
3. Log into the instance with Remote Desktop Connection.
4. From the Start menu choose Run, then diskmgmt.msi. In the lower pane click on Disk 2, right-click, choose Import foreign volume, and it should mount.
