After having tested (censored) and Sandboxie, I have decided to keep Sandboxie. It is wonderful and highly configurable, and I like especially the ability to have several boxes with different contents and setups.

During my first tests, I've noticed how Run Sandboxed > From Start Menu works, and its GUI. After, I have uninstalled Sandboxie to try (censored). Now, (censored) is definitely in the trashcan, and I have re-installed Sandboxie.
However, I have a little problem. Run Sandboxed > From Start Menu shows only the Desktop sub-menu, and the (Cancel) option. The start menu is not there any more! Why? Any idea?

Sorry for such a noob question, but I don't know Sandboxie well yet.

EDIT: I've just noticed the announcement for v3.01.18, but I am currently running v3.01. I will try the new version immediately...

No luck. Still the same problem.

And I have also another big problem. I can't run Window Explorer under SB. The explorer.exe process appears in the control panel, but the window is never opened.

Anyone?

youre gunna learn to luv it - lol
So it was good before the (cough) (censored) try and then this? On the (censored) install, anything like administrator rights or profiles that they needed that you forgot to change back?

No, nothing special, except the standard reboot. But I usually log on with administrative privileges anyway. As far as I can judge, all (censored) services are correctly uninstalled.

I have even deleted manually all registry keys related to (censored) and still present after the uninstall process. However, (censored) left some keys in the registry that I can't delete. They are all under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\(censored)\virtual\ , and their values are empty, and apparently harmless. I doubt they can interfere with Sandboxie.

I have again uninstalled Sandboxie, then restored my system to the oldest system restore point available, and reinstalled Sandboxie. Still no luck, and the alien reg keys are still there. (Unfortunately, System Restore doesn't have a restore point created before the installation of (censored) any more.)

The problem with Run Sandboxed > From Start Menu is not very important and I can live with it, but the fact that I can't run the explorer under SB indicates probably that there is a serious problem. Note that starting explorer.exe or any folder name gives the same result. Explorer runs without any window, and then closes itself after, say, 30 seconds.

I don't remember if I ran a sandboxed explorer the first time, but the start menu worked fine.

Interesting to note: I have created a new Windows user account, and started Sandboxie from that account. The Start Menu problem persists, but I can launch the explorer. I'm now even more confused, as I thought those problems were related.

Whats your Os? Is your real startmenu displaying correctly? Any windows shell replacements or themers, windowblinds, anything like that? For when you get back on, I was able to semi-reproduce, but I am on xp and I dont know what you are on - anyway since you say you have experianced multiple boxes, right click on sandboxie icon in the taskbar, go to "switch to sandbox" make sure the default sandbox is checked - then try startmenu
mitch

If you think this might be an issue with some default windows compenent, like shell DLL registrations, you should try Dial-A-Fix.

It's basically a collection of *fixes* that return a lot of things to windows defaults, like lots of component registrations. It's pretty self-explanatory. I've used it several times, and it's never done any harm. I totally forgot about this thing, and it's probably worth a shot in your case.

http://wiki.djlizard.net/Dial-a-fix

I am running XP SP2, and I hate skins and useless addons, so my system is pretty pure, although, with the time, I have installed a lot of things. The only thing that could possibly cause problems is a dual-desktop manager that I wrote myself, but I have tried SB on a system with only my AVG antivirus program running at startup, and still no luck.

Since I have uninstalled and re-installed Sandboxie several time to try to guess what's happening, I have of course tried it with the default configuration, and in the DefaultBox.

Yes, my start menu can be opened successfully without problem.

Thanks for the Dial-A-Fix suggestion. I'll try it asap.

Ok, I have been able to replicate real close to your problem and it's not whether or not youre in the default box, it's whether or not that check mark is right - get back to me as I've picked up on something while toying with this but I need your results to confirm. I've got the same setup xp-sp2 so you might just be good with this.
mitch

Still no luck. Dial-A-Fix doesn't help neither.

What exactly should I have tested? Running the start menu under the Default Box (and the default configuration) doesn't help. And I have double-checked the checkmark.

right click taskbar icon - go to switch to sandbox - there should be a check mark next to default box

I've got multiple boxes and if I move that check mark I get errors in my start-menu too

That's right. And it's OK. Now, what should I do?

On your new setup -you just got the one box so far? Or you made your multiples already?

I've copied back the my multiple-boxes INI file in the WINDOWS directory, but I can easily revert to the default configuration.

yes just copy your existing ini to the desktop and load sandboxie with just one box