Run Apps in Sandboxie to Keep Your System Clean and Secure

Installation is straight forward and easy following the installation wizard.

After installing you may get a software compatibility screen to improve compatibility with certain apps.

Now you’re ready to start using Sandboxie.

it’s possible for you to also browse for the program or file you want to run in Sandboxie.

Here we will take a look at how Sandboxie works.

In this example, I opened Firefox in Sandboxie and started to download Dropbox.

Notice the installation is happening in the sandboxed environment represented by the[#]indicators.

Anything you do with a sandboxed app will open everything in a sandboxed environment.

For example, here I am running DropBox in the sandbox.

After you get used to Sandboxie you could disable this screen from showing.

To recover a file in Sandboxie control go to Sandbox \ DefaultBox \Quick Recovery.

it’s possible for you to send apps to the sandbox from the context menu.

There are good reasons to run apps in a sandboxed environment which we touched on earlier.

It can also help in avoiding spyware bundled in a program by installing it to the sandbox first.