A small thing but worth mentioning.

My shortcuts are "prefixed" by DropMyRights. These short cuts worked perfectly well in conjunction with Sandboxie.

Having installed v 3.32 these shortcuts no longer work (all OK in v 3.30). If I remove DropMyRights from the shortcut target then no problem.

Any thoughts as to what is causing this result??

Can you quote an example shortcut that you modified with DropMyRights? That way I could try to reproduce the problem.

I am using Vista Ultimate and Sandboxie 3.32.

The same happens with all my shortcuts in conjunction with Sandboxie so the following is just one example.

I have a shortcut for Skype; the target is:
C:\Users\alanperelman\MSDN\DropMyRights\DropMyRights.exe "C:\Program Files\Skype\Phone\Skype.exe"

If I rightclick on shortcut and start sandboxed, the Sandboxie process starts (I get red spots in Sandboxie's system tray icon) but nothing happens and the system tray icon returns to all yellow.

If I remove DropMyRights and change target to:
"C:\Program Files\Skype\Phone\Skype.exe"

Then if I rightclick on shortcut and start sandboxed, all works fine and Skype starts up sandboxed.

Over to you. Thanks for your help.

Is there a reason to use DropMyRights on Vista with enabled UAC?

I only use Admin Account. Hence addition of DropMyRights helps to some degree. May not need with Sandboxie but I also open some programs unsandboxed (when DMR does help) and it easier to have just one shortcut.

OK dogdog thanks for your elaboration on this, I will check it out at some point and tell you what I find out.

Now that Sandboxie includes a DropMyRights-like feature, perhaps this is no longer an issue.

Does is make any sense or is there a benefit of enabling this SBIE feature on Vista with active UAC and a "normal" Vista user?

I have shied away from programs such as surun, makemeadmin,
runasadmin etc because of all the hassle it apparently entailed.

Now, with sandboxie, running safer is a mouse-click away!
To me, this is truly a big step forward in sbie development
Thanks tzuk.

Now for my 'problem'. I enabled DropAdminRights in order to try it out.
I was able to download/upload files, view pdf/doc attachments etc (all as expected).

But I was also able to install a program (orbit downloader) in the 'program files' folder.
I thought that, as a limited user, I would not have the privilege of installing software

And my question:
Are any messages (error/warning) displayed if I perform actions that are not allowed.
If so, what things can I try to see if DropAdminRights is working the way it should?
Many thanks.

EDIT: I'm on XP home SP1 (with sbie 3.33.02)

I believe Users can still install software that doesn't write to system locations they don't have access to. Also, SB's DMR feature drops rights to POWER Users, a bit different than Users I think. My knowledge on different user rights stop there unfortunately.

For an example, open a sandboxed Windows Explorer or command prompt and try to delete something from your Windows\System32 directory. Your attempt should fail.

I think it drops it to somewhere below Power Users, judging from the wording on the Drop Rights tab.

This really isn't a ground breaking feature (soccerfan).

wraithdu, the point is to drop your associations with the Administrator and Power Users group, turning an Administrator account into a normal user account.

And unfortunately I am having a really hard time getting it to work on Windows Vista.

I did an AutoIt version of DMR a while back to address some shortcomings, and basically followed the source code of DMR itself. I've not had any problem getting it to work in Vista. I'm assuming then that your trouble is getting it to work in the context of Sandboxie?

Maybe not groundbreaking but so much easier to use (for me at least)


What actions does the normal user account disallow (compared to an admin or power user account)?

Is this a feature within v 3.32??

What is this feature (or could you let me have a link to a description).

Many thanks

PS: Very pleased with Sandboxie. I think that support responsiveness is particularly impressive.