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This question is bugging me for a while. How do I sandbox any application and run it on PC where I have only limited privileges (not administrative) ?

Surely, the application will require the UAC and administrative privileges but the sandbox program would emulate these and "play" the environment for the application where it can save to harddisk and registries.

Sandboxie.com allows application to do that, but I am not aware it does not need administrative privileges to run the sandboxed thing as such.

Am I somehow wrong? If so, please post a comment under this and suggest closure.

Tamara Wijsman
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You could use VMWare to create and boot up an operating system that does give you administrative permissions. It would solve all of your requirements in that it would be sandboxed and completely separate from your host OS, and you would be able to run programs, save to virtual disk, etc, all without having to change permissions on the host OS.

jmort253
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Spoon.net - create the app on another computer with spoon, and then it will run it on anything, if you can build it in spoon successfully. no admin rights needed.

hotmatrixx
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I think some sort of virtualization technology is your answer. You'd need some admin rights to install the software, but once that is done, you should be good to go with only limited rights on the host OS.

VMWare, Virtual PC, Softgrid, would work, and there's others I'm sure.

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spoon.net has become turbo.net, but it has also become very commercial and very costly (except for Education licenses). It does not yet support Cloud packaging of applications.

In any case, any software that will fully isolate an application from its host will require installation to be able to hook the operating system, so without admin permissions you are limited to software that is already installed.

If the target PC already has Docker installed, packaging your application inside a container is an excellent way to run it while being totally isolated from the host. Containers are enjoying a big hype today, so if not enabled on the target PC, perhaps it will be easy to convince the administrator of enabling it for security.

Some other Portable application creators which might replace spoon.net are:

  • VMware ThinApp
    The basic "VMware ThinApp Starter Edition" is offered for free with any purchase of VMware Workstation.

  • Cameyo
    Cameyo is an application virtualization product. It aims to virtualize Windows applications so that they can run on other machines or in HTML5 browsers.

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