Ultimate Guide to Testing Software with Sandboxie: How to Safely Test Multiple Programs Simultaneously

I’ve used this a lot in the past. If I wanted to test software, I threw it in the sandbox. The sandbox gives full access to the system and your files, so you can use/test it as if you ‘just’ installed it on your computer. Everything you modify and create is simply kept in the sandboxed environment, and when you’re done with it, just throw away the sandbox and all changes including the installation. And if you want you can remove created files from the sandbox.

You can create multiple parallel sandboxes so you can test multiple things simultaneously and separately.

It is not an automatic virus scanner or anything, you have to start the programs you use in the sandbox yourself. But your real system remains completely unaffected. The sandboxed programs have access to the entire system, including external data and the GPU (so games work fully).

And because only changes to the system are stored in the sandbox, it takes up little space, and you can use it to see what changes a program makes to your system.

As an extra: You can also take a sandbox with you after reinstalling your OS. Save the sandbox to ‘D:SandboxData’ or something similar (via settings). After a reinstall, reinstall Sandboxie, point to that custom sandbox location, and you’ll have everything back that was in the sandbox. Theoretically you could also copy that sandbox to another system, but I’ve never tried that.

[Reactie gewijzigd door Magic Power op 16 maart 2024 15:57]

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