To be honest, aside the sandboxing being a wee bit flaky still (not opening everything you select in a sandbox when it ought to) I think that the Avast sandbox feature has greater potential. I didn’t think this when I first looked at it mind you. Aside it’s obvious prophylactic abilities (when it works properly), it could be immensely more useful with a few more features. Well, in the ways I’ve described in fact. I can’t see that it is actually that far off being a full featured sandboxing tool with Avast. It’s more or less there, but for a few things, such as a simple way to explore the sandbox contents, and also to allow msi extensions, etc. I reiterate because ‘dry run installs’ are extremely useful security procedure; I’ve been doing this very thing for a long time! Before Sandboxie it would be in a VM with an install monitor. Before a true install you get to see what stuff an application is going to scatter around your hard drive and what rubbish it stuffs into your registry. It’s a very thorough way of validating software. Granted, it isn’t a something that all users would use, but for more advanced users perhaps more advanced features are in order? I hope the developers continue working on the sandboxing feature and add further functionality. As Avast is going off in different directions with tools like this I can’t see going a bit further being a step too far.

Anyhow, thanks.