AudioSwitch VS Sandboxie

Using this app I can switch between audio input devices with a macro. My plan is to set a button on the headset to activate the macro so I can walk away from my desk and switch to by headsets microphone as needed.

I just use AudioSwitch instead. It's a little icon that sits in the tray which you can color code for whichever input/output is active, then right-click to quick switch it.

I installed a program called AudioSwitch to map a hotkey that toggles sound devices, so that I could try to switch sound devices in-game, but even after pressing the hotkey in-game, audio always only came out of the headphones.

I don't think there's a built in way to do it, but with AudioSwitch, you can easily set a keybind to change between two audio devices quickly.

I've never heard of AudioSwitch before but did find what MIGHT be the website, and another one in GitHub. Both are a bit old (2018 and 2017 respectively) and are not the same codebase, but they could have a common parent. Nothing specifying that though and on mentions of forks either. But maybe one of them is what you're talking about? I'm also not seeing the headphone stand at all. Could you provide some links for said products and that'd maybe help some?

Step 1) I installed AudioSwitch Download Link.

AudioSwitch (Free) - To change device in Windows between my headset and soundbar with the click of a button.

I used to use sandboxie so I could emulate multiple browser sessions without worrying about cached creds or the different portals screwing up my context. It works decently.

Use Sandboxie on Windows. It's open source these days, and isolates processes from making changes on your system. It's perfect to install and run potentially unsafe programs. Sandboxie exists since 2003, and yet we still have people in business worlds running viruses from mail attachments.

Sandboxie

You can allow applications inside a Sandboxie to communicate with each other through sockets even when network access by Sandboxie is blocked1. You can enable Sandboxie network access and use Windows firewall outside Sandboxie to block all applications inside the Sandboxie from accessing the network1. It is also possible to specify ports that cannot be accessed by boxed applications2. However, it is not possible to specify IP’s or IP ranges that cannot be accessed by boxed applications2.

In addition to just taking all privileges way from the process, like Chrome does, there's also Sandboxie [1] and the official Windows Sandbox [2]

1: https://github.com/sandboxie-plus/Sandboxie

2: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/threat-pr...

2b: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/threat-pr...

VirtualBox dropped 3D acceleration for old OS like XP a while back, you can see it it running "dxdiag" on your windows XP and running the tests, it will do DirectDraw only since the game is a 32 bit windows game it should run on modern windows like 10 and 11, I saw that the main problem is the DRM, so you will need a "cracked/pached" exe, I can't help with that, but do your own search, if you want to be "safe" you can try running it using something like SandBoxie-plus https://github.com/sandboxie-plus/Sandboxie/releases

With those pre-reqs, is there anything Windows Sandbox can do that Sandboxie can't?

https://github.com/sandboxie-plus/Sandboxie

Could you pls. test if the vulnerability can be mitigated by using Sandboxie-Classic (that is the free version)?

I also want to recommand this piece of small software but it's very neat, Sandboxie: https://github.com/sandboxie-plus/Sandboxie