Software Update: Sandboxie 5.26

Version 5.26 of Sandboxie was released a few days ago, the third stable release of the 5.x series. With this program it is possible to run programs under Windows in a protected environment. That way, changes made by programs like Internet Explorer are easy to undo. In addition, there is no risk that important parts of the operating system will be affected. Sandboxie can be used on Windows XP and above, and a license costs 25 euros for one year. The following changes and improvements have been made in this release:

Changes in version 5.26

• Open paths no longer write any files into sandbox [more info].
• Fixed Win 8.1 x86 issue “SBIE2331 Service start failed: [22/5] Access is denied.”triggered if KB4093114 was installed. [more info].
• Fixed “SBIE2335 Initialization failed for process Start.exe [11 / 87]” tiggered after creating a new Sandbox and launching applications right away.
• Fixed crashes (and lack of functionality) or start command lines options [more info].
• Fixed Internet Explorer crash SBIE2303 Could not hook CryptClassErrorHandler (4) SBIE2224 Sandboxed program has crashed: iexplore.exe [DefaultBox] [more info].
• Fixed Registry Hive issues introduced in Windows 10 FR (Insider) “SBIE1241 Cannot mount registry hive: [C000003A / 22] SBIE2314 Canceling process Start.exe” when changing container folder to different drives [more info].
• Fixed Firefox sandbox content level 2+ issues related to audio, video, printing and crashes [more info].
• Fixed Firefox “SBIE2205 Service not Available: CreateDesktop” [more info].
• Fixed crashes related to browse for folder dialogs [more info].
• Added compatibility for Opera v54 /dev + -no-sandbox flag. [more info].
• Fixed crashes related to the latest versions of Chromium, affecting apps such as Chrome Canary v59 [more info].
• Improved compatibility for Firefox “Allow direct access to Firefox passwords” [more info].
• Fixed BSODs and hangs related to Windows 10 Insider v17666 (This is the latest FR version supported in this build) [more info].