subject: Use Sandboxie to Prevent Your System While Running Apps [print this page] Use Sandboxie to Prevent Your System While Running Apps
Have you ever worried about some bad effects will happen in your computer system while you running an application? Here, I will show you Sandboxie, which runs your programs in an isolated space which prevents them from making permanent changes to other programs and data in your computer.
About Sandboxie
Your applications will run in a so-called "sandbox" (actually it is a virtual environment), which is created by sandboxie and will not affect your actual computer system.
What's nice is that you can install a new application in the sandbox environment jsut to test it out and of course, there is no change to the OS. Also it guarantees enough security when you browsing the web. If you open a browser in the sandbox environment, the cookies, site history, cached files...etc. will be finally deleted when you clear the sandbox content or shut it down. What's more, installation is straight forward and easy following the installation wizard.
Note: It runs on 32-bit versions of Windows, but unfortunately will not work on 64 bit versions because of mandatory code signing of drivers.
After installation, you will get a software compatibility screen to improve compatibility with certain apps.
You can start using Sandboxie now.
Using Sandboxie
If it is the first time you use Sandboxie, you will notice what running a browser in Sandboxie is like by going through the getting started tutorial in sandboxed mode.
Also you can identify an application that is running in Sandboxie by the extra [#] indicators in the title bar.
Of course, you can browse for the program or file you want to run in Sandboxie as well.
Now we will go into how Sandboxie works. Here, I opened Firefox in Sandboxie and started to download Dropbox.
Notice the installation is happening in the sandboxed environment represented by the [#] indicators.
In fact, everything will open in a sandboxed environment as soon as you do anything with a sandboxed app. Take an example, here I am running DropBox in the sandbox. When clicking on the Forgot Password link, it opens up Firefox (or whatever the default browser is) in sandboxed mode as well.
No changes will be made to your actual system. So after files are downloaded, a screen will pop up by asking if you want to recover it to your system (actually the files are saved in the Sandboxie Directory you install it to). After you get used to Sandboxie you can disable this screen from showing.
In order to recover a file in Sandboxie control, just go to Sandbox DefaultBox Quick Recovery.
Now you can choose files and folders you want to recover from the sandbox. Here you will find you can also add folders as well.
Also you can send apps to the sandbox from the context menu.
And you can also run them directly in the sandbox which comes in very handy when you have no idea what an application might do to your system.
Sandboxie is a free application for personal use, but unfortunately you will get a reminder screen wanting you to purchase a license after 30 days.
Sandboxie is a really useful utility which lets you run your browser, email, or other apps in a secure sandbox environment without making changes to your Windows System. Just enjoy it if you need.
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