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I recently went digging for ways to block a given application from writing to the local hard drive, either for security reasons or to solve the stealth problem on some entries. I can run programs with limited rights, but that seems to block drive writes only some of the time.

Oddly, the tools I've found here are not at all straightforward:

Windows "protected folders" under randsomware protection. This lets you protect a given folder from "unfriendly" applications. I'm a little unclear on how that works and Microsoft's own docs on the topic aren't very specific.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/brookecrot ... 28a8f84c57

There's the poweruser method, which works with Windows Policy Manager
https://superuser.com/questions/432271/ ... -documents

Finally, there's two freeware security programs offer a slightly less involved but still far from simple.


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Any recommendations out there? Maybe there's some kind of Sandboxie tweak?