There are 2 types of applications : those which depend on others, and those which don't. Yes, the idea is to sandbox, but to let the choice: - 1 : To allow communication between applications by settings (right click on application folder and dialog box when search to go out of its sandbox). - 2 : O...

Most registry/file pollution is not created at install time, but at run time of an application. The uninstaller is unaware of what the application has done on the system in its lifetime. That's what I said. The idea I talk about would solve this problem. I disagree that would solve it as a clear-cu...

rembrandt wrote:Most registry/file pollution is not created at install time, but at run time of an application. The uninstaller is unaware of what the application has done on the system in its lifetime.

That's what I said.
The idea I talk about would solve this problem.

Side by side assembly. In ReactOS, you'll notice a winsxs folder inside the reactos folder. This is there to prevent dll hell. In NT6+ this is owned by trusted installer, so even the admin can not by default delete it (at least accidentally). Yes I know, but this is only to prevent DLL hell, not to...

Microsoft seems to made this choice with Windows 8 and it's API "WinRT", where everything is correctly compartmentalized. Registry is still central with Windows Run Time. It is possible to make it track-and-undo semantics, but I cannot guarantee the lack of suspect on having spies on OS if "magic O...

Hi, I'm a new user about ReactOS. I really think this project has chance to become someting great, it could be a chance for entreprises. Personally, I'm waiting for NTFS support to use it permanently. May I just suggest an idea ? The very big problem in Windows is the WinRot : Every program installe...