SUMMARY OF CHANGES TO THE LIST FOR JUNE 13, JULY 22, & AUGUST 19, 2019: Thanks to everyone for all the contributions and keeping the topic active while I've been away! Now for the summary of changes since the last time I posted one of these. I don't mean to recommend Shade 1.6, but it is an option for Vista. The last page or two of the thread include speculation about Sandboxie's recent troubles. There was some enthusiasm when Shade appeared in 2015, but Sandboxie users were generally unimpressed, while others recommended the sandbox that is included with some Comodo products (which btw still support Vista). The best discussion I have found is an ongoing thread at Wilders Security. I am concerned about the scarcity of information about Shade. My testing shows that it does indeed put CCleaner out of business with respect to browser history, and there is no conflict with Avast.
You drag and drop shortcuts into the sandbox. That and the tray icon's menu are the only options available to the user. Here's a screenshot of its minimalistic UI: Nothing was detected at VirusTotal, so I installed it and found that it does work on Vista, but may have a few bugs. Perhaps Shade 1.7 was the last version to support Vista but MajorGeeks actually does have a Shade Sandbox 1.6 download signed April 05, 2017. Both Neowin and Softpedia have May 2018 pages advertising Shade 1.7, but both actually deliver the same Maversion as the Shade website. Somewhat uncharacteristically, I turned to third-party websites in an effort to find the last version of Shade that really did support Vista.
Unfortunately, that does not appear to be true of the current download (version number not known but signed March 30, 2019): I nevertheless may try Sandboxie on Vista before long (certainly someone should) but recently became interested in a lesser-known sandbox program called Shade because the website claims that Vista is supported. AVG was later bought out by Avast.) It also concerns me that has not posted at MSFN since April 28, since AFAIK no one else was using Sandboxie on Vista. (Years ago, AVG took down their forum and set up a new "support community" at a time when serious issues with their products were driving away users, including myself. It concerns me that their old forum was taken down and the "temporary" forum now appears to be permanent. Sandboxie has long been the leading brand but aside from their lack of official support for Vista, there are indications that a debacle occurred in April. I've long thought that sandboxing would be the best way to secure the obsolescent browsers that can be used on Vista. FAQs have not listed Vista as a supported OS for more than a year, so hopefully will test the latest Sandboxie 5.30 for compatibility with Vista x86. It is coming back, although there is currently a temporary forum at Sophos (which owns Sandboxie). Sandboxie's website has been down for quite some time.
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