Thanks for pointing that out. I have been downloading from the forum link, not the main download page which is, as you point out, still serving up v3.01.

Unlike your experience on Vista, the explorer windows never opens on XP. After a couple of minutes, explorer just shuts down and disappears from task manager as well as from the main configuration window.

I also notice a behavioral change (probably by design) with v3.01.18 on XP Pro SP2. When running multiple boxes, even if only on is active, the red dots stay on the tray icon no matter what box you select with the 'switch to' function. I think this may explain what Mitch alluded to earlier in this thread.

Also, one of the changes (if im not mistaken) between 3.01 and 3.01.18 is that tzuk adding some new language strings to the program (i think) although i have to admit, i never saw anywhere, the ability to change Sandboxie to anything other than English, anyways though, maybe that is what is conflicting (somehow)?

I haven't read through this entire topic, but the Windows Explorer errors reported here may be caused by version 3.01.18, so give version 3.01.19 a try.

Cant speak for the rest of the people in this topic, but for me, using .19, windows explorer opens right away again, hope it's fixed for everyone else too.

same here xpsp2

All is well here. XP Pro.

Here too! (XP Pro SP2)
Mucho gracias, Tsuk!
And thanks for your great software!

However, the Start Menu still doesn't work. Not to worry too much. Seems I'm alone to have that problem. It's probably something ill in my machine.

Hope you don't mind me jumping in here, but I recently had a problem uninstalling (censored), and was left with the same string in the registry which would not delete no matter what was tried, and believe me, me and some other guys tried everything under the sun.

My mistake was uninstalling (censored) with a third party uninstaller.

Solution was to reinstall (censored), and use its own installer to remove it. If you did this, my apologies. If you didn't, then after selecting uninstall, a window pops up:



Check the three boxes, away you go, and (censored) uninstalls cleanly. Couple of minor reg entries left which delete easily. The problem string is gone.

Anyway, sorry if this doesn't help, but it worked for me.

Could it be that these problematic registry entries contain null characters? Someone want to give this tool a try then?

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/utilities/regdelnull.mspx

How bout' just cleaning your registry? here are 3 programs i swear by and havent failed me yet for 3-5 years,

1. Ace Utilities: Use only the disk cleaner and registry cleaner.
2. CCleaner: Use only the cleaner and the registry repairer.
3. Tuneup Utilities: Use only the registry cleaner.

Thats it, nothing else is needed, trust me, i've tested all the other programs and i dont recommend the other cleaning programs since they can actually ruin your registry, so thats why i recommend using only the 3 i posted, everything else is crap (seriously).

I'd have to add jv16PowerTools to that list of good registry cleaners, just my 2c.

I had, and still have, the same problem. Some keys are left in the registry after uninstalling BZ, and they can't be deleted. I think they are links to HK_LOCAL_MACHINE keys, somewhat like HK_CLASSES_ROOT and HK_CURRENT_USER. Since LOCAL_MACHINE contains keys directly related to the hardware, they cannot be deleted. I don't think any registry cleaner can get rid of them.

I have only installed the official BZ version with the official Giveaway Of The Day installer, but uninstalling BZ left the keys anyway. I have uninstalled BZ several times, but still can't erase them. IMO, they are probably harmless, as only the folder structure remains, without any particular key value. That doesn't mean that I like that!

I'm glad to have tried BZ anyway, as it's on the Giveaway Of The Day feedback that I hear about Sandboxie for the first time!

If they are really symbolic links, there is a way to remove them. You'd have to google for 'symbolic links' to see, or check the MS knowledge base, but there's a way to do it. But it's strange that there's no data in them if they are links. Screenshot maybe?

Actually your right, but the reason i didnt add it is only because of the fact that it's not "n00b friendly", you see, most newbies would just scan the registry and remove everything the scanner found, now thats ok, but only if your using the 3 programs i listed since they only show you the entries that are absolutely safe to remove, jv16 on the other hand, will lots of times, show you keys that actually arent junk and are needed by the OS and/or a program installed on your system, so if you dont know what your doing, and you dont read through what jv16 has found, then you'll just removed everything it found, and then screw your system up. So long story short, only use jv16 if you know what you're doing.

And about the registry keys, i still think a reg cleaner might be able to remove them, you'd be suprised, i used to frequently get locked keys on XP (not on Vista of course) that i could not remove, but i would run 1 (or more) reg cleaners, and it would remove the locked key(s).

I was wrong. There is still a value.