Run selected exe with Sandboxie

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Sandboxie provides a safe way to run apps by creating a self-contained, isolated environment in which a program runs - without ever touching your file system or registry. For example, if you run your web browser inside Sandboxie and you somehow contract a nasty bit of spyware, simply terminate the Sandboxed browser and delete the Sandbox - no more spyware!

Sandboxie is also very useful for testing apps - you can install a program inside a Sandbox, use it all you want, then close it and delete the Sandbox. The app will be gone, and no traces of it are left on your system.

Download Sandboxie here:
http://www.sandboxie.com/

LMB: Run selected program Sandboxed
RMB: Run any program Sandboxed (opens a dialog where you can choose an app)

<?xml version="1.0"?> <button backcol="none" display="icon" textcol="none" type="three_button"> <label>Sandboxie</label> <icon1>C:\Program Files\Sandboxie\Start.exe,0</icon1> <button backcol="none" display="icon" textcol="none"> <label>Run selected program Sandboxed</label> <icon1>C:\Program Files\Sandboxie\Start.exe,0</icon1> <function type="normal"> <instruction>&quot;C:\Program Files\Sandboxie\Start.exe&quot; {file} </instruction> </function> </button> <button backcol="none" display="icon" textcol="none"> <label>Run any program Sandboxed</label> <icon1>C:\Program Files\Sandboxie\Start.exe,0</icon1> <function type="normal"> <instruction>&quot;C:\Program Files\Sandboxie\Start.exe&quot; run_dialog</instruction> </function> </button> </button>

LMB: Terminate all Sandboxed programs
RMB: Delete contents of Sandbox

<?xml version="1.0"?> <button backcol="none" display="icon" textcol="none" type="three_button"> <label>Sandboxie</label> <icon1>C:\Program Files\Sandboxie\Start.exe,1</icon1> <button backcol="none" display="icon" textcol="none"> <label>Terminate all Sandboxed programs</label> <icon1>C:\Program Files\Sandboxie\Start.exe,1</icon1> <function type="normal"> <instruction>&quot;C:\Program Files\Sandboxie\Start.exe&quot; /terminate</instruction> </function> </button> <button backcol="none" display="icon" textcol="none"> <label>Delete contents of Sandbox</label> <icon1>C:\Program Files\Sandboxie\Start.exe,1</icon1> <function type="normal"> <instruction> &quot;C:\Program Files\Sandboxie\Start.exe&quot; delete_sandbox</instruction> </function> </button> </button>

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Update:

While Sandboxie is a useful way to test-install apps, it is not easy to view the reg hive created inside the sandbox in order to monitor what the installation process has added to Sandboxie's virtual registry (and therefore what the installation would add to your registry if you were to run it outside of Sandboxie). By using a second program called RegFromApp, we are able to view all registry entries written to Sandboxie's virtual registry system while running an installer.

Download RegFromApp here, and extract it to c:/program files/regfromapp/

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/reg_file_from_application.html

Use this code in a button or context menu to run the selected app in Sandboxie while monitoring its registry activity in RegFromApp:

"C:\Program Files\Sandboxie\Start.exe" "C:\Program Files\RegFromApp\RegFromApp.exe" /RunProcess "%1" /StartImmediately 1

This can be useful in other ways too. If you want to know what registry key is associated with a particular setting in an app, you can run that app using this code, then change the setting in question - any changes that the app tries to make to the registry are reflected immediately in RegFromApp. Further, because RegFromApp can export .reg files, you may be able to use them to make changes in apps or in windows by running .reg files with .bat files - meaning you can use DOpus to control these things easily.

Of course, this is all possible without the use of either Sandboxie or RegFromApp, but these two programs together let you explore different possibilities without making any actual changes to your system.

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Hello, not sure if anyone will see this, but when I try this I get the following error message from RegFromApp:

Failed to start with the new selected process. Error code: 87
The parameter is incorrect.

Note that I tried to do the same thing manually from within RegFromApp (within Sandboxie), and received the same error.

Thanks for any help...seems like a great idea.

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What an old thread! :wink:

You don't need a 3rd-party-app to check the registry. If you have installed a program in a sandbox, simply rightclick on c:\windows\regedit.exe and select "Start with Sandboxie". Select your sandbox and RegEdit will show the correct registry-entries. Works here on W10 like a charm.

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This does not seem related to Directory Opus, since it happens with or without Opus's involvement, so you should probably go to Sandboxie's forum for help with it.

RegFromApp and RegEdit do quite different things. But, again, this isn't really the right place to discuss them so let's leave it at that.