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Best free software for running multiple sandboxes?

Jelli
Jelli Posts: 230 Forumite
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Hello, I'm aware of a few free programs but they only run a single sandbox and was wondering if anyone knew of free options that allowed multiple sandboxes to be run?

I have Windows 10.

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  • esuhl
    esuhl Posts: 9,409 Forumite
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    Sandboxie lets you have multiple sandboxes:
    https://www.sandboxie.com/
  • Jelli
    Jelli Posts: 230 Forumite
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    esuhl wrote: »
    Sandboxie lets you have multiple sandboxes:
    https://www.sandboxie.com/

    Thanks for your reply but the free version only runs 1 sandbox.
  • esuhl
    esuhl Posts: 9,409 Forumite
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    Jelli wrote: »
    Thanks for your reply but the free version only runs 1 sandbox.

    Ah, I just checked and you can have multiple sandboxes, but can only run one at a time. :-/
  • Frozen_up_north
    Frozen_up_north Posts: 3,077 Forumite
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    Would Virtual Box do what you want?
    https://www.virtualbox.org
  • Jelli
    Jelli Posts: 230 Forumite
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    edited 19 June 2017 at 7:10PM
    I think it would be too bulky to do Frozen. If I wanted to run a program 3 times then I would need to run it in my current OS then install 2 other virtual OS's losing me 40-50GB of hard drive space. Plus it would slow down my computer hugely when running all 3 together.

    I think I might know a better way now. If I created extra user accounts then held Shift down and right clicked a program I can choose to run them as a different user, but I just need to do a bit more research so I don't mess anything up.

    UPDATE: it doesn't seem to work. When I run it as one user and then try running it as a different user it doesn't open a second time. It just flashes back to the already opened program. Damn.
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