It provides a good use case wherein we want to lockdown the user from making any changes on the local file system and also for the legacy and untrusted applications.ģ. With WriteCopy, ThinApp copies the file system changes to the Sandbox to ensure that only the copies are modified not the actual physical files. WriteCopy File and Registry Isolation Mode user can read from the native file system however the writes are directed to the copy of native file system in Sandbox. However, any changes to the Application Data, System and Program files are not stored in the native file system rather they are stored in the Sandbox (Shadow directory for all native file directories affected during application runtime).Ģ. One common advantage of using merged file and registry isolation mode is that all the document’s which are saved by the user appears on the native file system, which means users can create modify and store the files in their favourite location like Desktop, My Document. This isolation mode is highly recommended for applications like Microsoft office as they heavily rely on reading registry information from a local image. Merged File and Registry Isolation Mode applications have rights to modify elements directly on the native file system, which means that all the reads and writes are performed directly on the physical system. In order to control the level of interaction between the application and native file system, we have different types of Isolation modes which can be set per registry subtree and at the directory.ġ.

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