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keveen
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Test your applications in a sandbox

I have discovered a near perfect program that allows you to test out any program in a secure sandboxed area without contaminating your registry or Windows folder. Of course it is well known in geek circles (no offence at all) but perhaps people in this forum will find it essential too.

It's Sandboxie from - http://www.sandboxie.com/index.php?GettingStarted and what it basically does is create a virtual environment simulating Windows but only using the files needed by the program you are installing. It copies into the virtual environment the relevant Registry section - the place where all the crap goes - and any system files needed by the program installer. You can also use it for browsing - and all your browsing downloads and cookies are saved into the mirror image system area.

In practical terms what you see on your PC is a folder called Sandbox. When you have finished testing and browsing and you want to clean up, you delete the entire folder and all the rubbish disappears into the trash and your original folders or registry are not touched at all. Brilliant.

Why is this relevant to this forum? Because if you use other programs not yet included on this site list, from http://www.portablefreeware.com for example, you can install them in the sandbox and then copy across only the basic program onto your usb drive or whatever. Many of the programs on that site, although clean and portable, do install uninstall info and the like, although no dlls or other files that degrade their portability. I'm using a program called nPassword which I copied onto my usb drive by installing into the sandbox first. I then copied the basic exe file which is all the program actually needs to run, onto my usb drive.

I hope this information also protects other users from the poison of trojans and viruses too.

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http://portableapps.com/searc

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If he had searched, he would have seen

We even have a topic on the portable version of Sandboxie (by wraithdu)
See Here
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Yeah, but the download link

Yeah, but the download link is old, as in, it's no longer available.

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Of course it is well known

Of course it is well known in geek circles (no offence at all) but perhaps people in this forum will find it essential too.
You're obviously new. You haven't picked up that this place is a geek circle.

Vintage!

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ROFL

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If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port,
and the bus is interrupted as a very last resort,
and the address of the memory makes your floppy disk abort,
then the socket packet pocket has an error to report Biggrin

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sandbox...

You mean all this time I've spent with VMware and I could of been playing in a Sandbox....

Interesting program, but it don't look like full VMware..

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LINK IS NOT GONE!!!

That link is to page 11 of a 20 page thread...maybe look ahead a little? Here's some help Smile

http://sandboxie.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?p=10204#10204

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