Hi, I know it's a weird question. And I haven't found a "general questions" type topic so I opened a new one. I'm using the Classic version. Can a sandboxed program (with dropped rights) freeze Windows 10? Freeze as in no keys responding. Also, can it crash Windows 10? Crash as in BSOD. With dropped rights or without, any difference?
The answer to your first question is Yes. I dont believe it is a Sandboxie thing alone that causes the frreze but sometimes the mix between SBIE and other programs can cause a freeze. Very likely freezes are more likely to occur if you use a real time AV or other security programs. In my personal case freezes are rare, maybe twice a year but they do occur. What I do when a freeze happens is to click a Terminate All programs button that I have in my Taskbar. To create a button like that: Create a shortcut (non sandboxed) with the path below. "C:\Program Files\Sandboxie\Start.exe" /terminate_all After you create the shortcut, move it to your taskbar. Next time you experience a freeze with a sandboxed program, click the shortcut and all programs running sandboxed in all sandboxes will get terminated, and the freeze will be over. More often that not, when I experience a freeze, the sandboxed program covers the entire screen so I have no access to the shortcut. Then what I do to solve that issue is to click the Windows button on the left side of the keyboard, that clears the screen and the taskbar becomes visible allowing me to click The Terminate All Programs button/shortcut. If you prefer, you can create the shortcut to terminate only programs running in specific sandboxes instead of all programs in all sandboxes. The path below would terminate only the programs running in a sandbox named Foxit. "C:\Program Files\Sandboxie\Start.exe" /box:Foxit /terminate Regarding BSOD. I never thought of any of the few BSOD that I experienced in W10 are in any way related to SBIE. Bo
Hey Bo, thank you for the valuable into, as always. I already have a "terminate all" shortcut on the taskbar, but what happened to me once was a full-screen freeze of a sandboxed program - and it wasn't responding to any key (Windows key or any other key), so I had to manually turn the computer off. I removed that sandbox with the software that caused the freeze but found it weird that it was even possible for a sandboxed program (and with drop rights enabled) to do this. That's why I asked here, cause maybe it was something else that "froze" the system, but it's strange (or not?) that it was caused by a sandboxed program. Regarding BSOD, I've had a few Sandboxie related (I wrote about it on this forum a year ago or so), but they are rare enough so that it's not a bother.
