Sandboxie or no sandboxie ?

[Cage]

In my quest to sail Directory Opus I found this reddit thread:

Is sandboxie basic adequate?

https://www.reddit.com/r/antivirus/comments/1611bog/comment/kiztld6/

[Ethiopia]

I use Directory Opus and generally like it, even for browsing tons of images. Every so often it will say something about not passing some certificate and close. I just restart it and it works again for a week or two. it's an older cracked version.

[gts6]

There's a few similar softwares to Opus that has the same features, and free to download right from the official website without worry. XYPlorer is one of them (been using it for years, its good and stable, just has a nag screen upon launch, otherwise no other nags appear)

[Cage]

Thank you for all the replies and advice 🙂

@Ethiopia
I had the demo version and really liked that. Even registered for an extended trial, hoping they would email me with a discount offer after it expired. Never got even one email from them, besides the temporary certificate code. Tried running it after that using "Run As Date" to make the program think it's not expired yet, but no luck. Maybe a version that doesn't detect anything on Virustotal would be safe? Do you use that cracked version on your online pc too?

@InverseKinematics
I haven't heard about Portmaster before, that's interesting. I used to setup firewall rules for exes while I was still using cracked software, but I think that was pretty hit and miss with not blocking all the exe files, don't know if other file extensions can cause problems too... I'm thinking about getting more advanced programs like Zbrush too. So hopefully I can get something secure set up. The basic version of Sandboxie would cover that?

@tedthelearner
I'm wondering if programs like Portmaster and Wireshark only monitor connections or block them too? I'm paranoid in testing potentially infected software, isn't it still risky? I understand the closed off concept of Virtualbox, I guess I should just learn how to use it, the unknown is probably what's holding me back, thinking that I might screw up identifying a threat. How do you know when a detection in VirusTotal is only a false positive and nothing more?

@gts6
I remember looking at XYplorer back when I was researching dual plane file explorers, but for the life of me I can't now recall why I snuffed it. Even looking at images in Google images now it looks perfectly fine. Ok, so I checked out the limitations of the trial version its this:
The unregistered trial version is fully functional with very few limitations:

Image previews have "XYplorer Trial" printed in top-left corner.
The title bar of the main window cannot be customized.

None of that sounds like a deal breaker. If its intuitive, with side by side planes and dark mode I think it would be sweet. I'm still gonna checkout Sandboxie, Portmaster, Wireshark to run something like Zbrush. I'm gonna try out XYplorer. Hope it rocks 🙂

[Ethiopia]

One of the problems I have with DO is that it's idiotically, ridiculously and obscenely overcomplicated with a trillion settings. The options are a massive minefield of choices. They need to trim a ton of this crap out and offer a slim-n-trim version.

It's the same with most image browsers. XNView is the best that I've found but even it has waaay too many options.

I long for the day of ACDSee 3.1 (or 'Classic') for image browsing. I still use it but it needs to be drug into this decade.

[eelgoo]

@ethiopia
As regards replacement for ACD See, which has become unweildy & bloated. I use FastStone image viewer & Bandiview. Both are free.
The only thing these lack for me is the ability to caption each image, like you can with ACD See.

🙂

[Ethiopia]

@eelgoo, I've tried Fastone but didn't like it. (I trial every image browser I know of, every year).
Bandview (Honeyview) flunked immediately because there's no thumbnail mode.
The ancient ACDSee 3.1 still works for me even though it has the occasional glitch. I have yet to find a program that builds thumbs of massive directories full of images (10K+) or opens HUGE panoramas faster without crashing or locking up. I have many panos over 1 GB and ACDSee 3.1 opens them effortlessly.

They recently offered a new version of ACDSee Classic, but it's nothing but an online lead-in to their image editor and archive/database service that no one uses.

[eelgoo]

I think you might get a limited uptake on ACDSee 3.1, if it is a cracked version? 😉

🙂

[Ethiopia]

It is...it's ancient but works well. surprisingly it works better on Win10 in compatibility mode than it does on Win7.
I'll post it in the freebies section.

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