Kahoona

I took a quick look at Sandboxie (I had never heard of it). I'm gonna give it a whirl because it looks interesting. Up to this point, I isolate my dev testing within virtual machines (fan of VMWare workstation but I've used VirtualBox and MS Virtual PC). The original post reminded me of something I read; supposedly Windows 7 would add native support for VHD, which potentially could provide a sandbox (a bit more overhead in comparison to how Sandboxie appears to work). I forgot to mention VMWare ThinApp (http://www.vmware.com/products/thinapp/). It allows applications to be virtualized rather than an entire OS. I"ve used it to create standalone packages of IE7 and I've seen it used to create standalone packages of Office 2007. It's pretty slick but has a bit of a pricetag. I know Matt is a big fan of VMWare products (he's mentioned them in a number of episodes) so I'm curious if he has mentioned ThinApp in the past. I'll have to check out more of the previous seasons to follow-up.

First post ever on the forums! Yay! The UAC stands for User Account Control. Basically, UAC virtualization makes it possible for users to run applications that normally require administrative access. It achieves this by creating (and storing) virtual copies of areas such as system32, program files or even registry areas such as HKLM\Software. So when an application requests access to those system protected areas, UAC virtualization redirects those requests to the virtualized versions located in the user's profile. For more info check out: http://www.windowsecurity.com/articles/Pro...tion-Part1.html Hope that makes sense. I just started testing Windows 7 at work. I'll share some of the interesting things found in a later post.