Nerdbloke

At work I’ve been involved with software download management. I work in *what should be* a safe environment, but the download policy for the devs has been historically, erm, non-existent.

One of the areas we had to look at was how to judge the footprint of a new tool that one may want to use.

Sandboxie to the rescue. “Sandboxie intercepts changes to both your files and registry settings, making it virtually impossible for any software to reach outside the sandbox. Sandboxie traps cached browser items into the sandbox as a by-product of normal operation, so when you throw away the sandbox, all the history records and other side-effects of your browsing disappear as well.”

The bonus is that it can also enumerate the changes that an applicationhas attempted to make – in the registry and on the file system.

It’s currently shareware, but I am pretty sure we’ll be ponying up some cash to show the developer we appreciate his work.