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Originally Posted by J P Stein

So, what (if any) downsides are there to download or run Sandboxie? What is Cost for the un-free version?

There is none as far as I've been able to tell. The free version gives you plenty of functionality. The pay version seems to give you some more functionality, but I don't need it.

Originally Posted by CurtEgerer

I gave it a shot over the weekend. Very easy to download and install. Works seamlessly. But the program is not intuitive for non-computer experts like myself. Very frustrating, for instance, to figure out how to get downloaded items 'out of the sandbox'. Uninstalled it for now. I need a Sandbox for Dummies version, I guess.

IIRC, after going through the tutorial, there are a few locations where Sandboxie assumes that you will want to migrate downloaded stuff out of the sandbox and onto your PC right away, like "downloads", the "desktop" and "my documents". So if you download something to one of those locations, I think Sandboxie is supposed to ask you right away if you want to "recover" those files. I think the normal options are "Recover to same folder" meaning that if you saved to "desktop" that after recovery, the file will show up on the regular desktop. The other option is "recover to any folder" which I assume gives you the ability to put the file anywhere.

It's not hard, but you definitely need to go through the tutorial. It's a fairly short and mostly easy to follow series of web pages.

Originally Posted by Teutonics

Hmmm... I'll look again. I didn't see a free version. If I can get it working that's awesome!

I downloaded the version from here. As far as I can tell, it's free. I certainly haven't paid for it.

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It's very easy to get working. When you install it asked me if I wanted to open firefox in a sandbox and it did. It even sticks an icon on your desktop to click to open a browser in a sandbox.