Using Group Policy Editor (gpedit.msc) to harden IE 9

Trust me... it will. Maybe it was just a trick that my mind played on me, but the other day I downloaded a few stuff (more than 2GB) and left it all on the hdd. I felt that system would take a bit longer to load... After removing it, I felt like it was just a little bit faster. Maybe it was my mind playing tricks. But, considering it's an old laptop... it's not in its top conditions...

 

I think it is, but I think it would open path to the real system and not sandbox it. I never really installed any application requiring such, so I never researched about it.

I'll see if I can find more info on it.

-edit-

OK. What may have happened is that SQL Server installer wanted to start MSI/Windows Installer service. According to Tzuk, Sandboxie doesn't have the functionality to sandbox a service that it's not installed by the application itself inside the sandbox.

-http://www.sandboxie.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=11330&highlight=services

So, resuming, you can install a service in a sandbox. You cannot sandbox a service already installed in the real system.