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Question regarding the "Sandboxie" program

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Innuendo:
Sandboxie has always been designed to keep things in & not keep things out. Usually if one creates or installs something outside of a sandbox one is usually comfortable and confident in those changes and wishes those to be propagated system-wide.

40hz:
Sandboxie has always been designed to keep things in & not keep things out. Usually if one creates or installs something outside of a sandbox one is usually comfortable and confident in those changes and wishes those to be propagated system-wide.
-Innuendo (January 20, 2012, 01:08 PM)
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Exactly.

In order to fence out the 'real' environment from the sandboxed environment, you'd need a higher level environment and supervisor which would then contain both. If you want to do that, you're better off skipping the sandbox concept (which is a bit of a kludge) and switch over to using virtual machines. That would give you complete control over each instance.
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nkormanik:
Can someone suggest a "virtual machine" program which would be a step up from Sandboxie?

I use Sandboxie all the time, and it seems to work fine.  But if there's something better, bring it on.

Nicholas

Carol Haynes:
VirtualBox allows you to install any OS/apps and keep them totally isolated from your main system.
https://www.virtualbox.org/

VMWare Player
http://www.vmware.com/products/player/

Microsoft VirtualPC
XPMODE: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/ (not sure you can use this on WIndows 7 without the Pro version)
for XP and Vista see: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/support/virtual-pc-2007.aspx

There is also Parallels (but I don't think there is a free version):
http://www.parallels.com/uk/download/workstation/

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