Test Opera weekly/beta/final with & without changing current Opera settings using Sandboxie
Sunday, 1. July 2007, 12:30:18
If you want to test Opera weekly/beta/final you have to copy your current Opera settings & modify the paths. You can eliminate that by using sandboxed Opera.
- Download Sandboxie (size < 350 KB) and install it.
- Right click on Opera installer and select Run Sandboxed. Select Installation Directory same as your old Opera directory & finish installation.

Run Opera installer sandboxed - Create a shortcut with the following and change those shown in red color with correct path. "C:\Program Files\Sandboxie\Start.exe" "C:\Documents and Settings\User Name\Application Data\Sandbox\DefaultBox\drive\C\Program Files\Opera\Opera.exe"
- Click shortcut, Opera will start and you will see [#] in title bar which indicates Opera is running in sandboxed mode.
If old and sandboxed Opera installation paths are same, when sandboxed Opera runs first time it will use old Opera settings but it won't modify old settings and save modifications inside sandbox.
Sandboxed Opera will have [#] in title - To reset sandboxed Opera settings with old Opera settings, delete profile & mail directory in C:\Documents and Settings\User Name\Application Data\Sandbox\DefaultBox\drive\
To delete sandboxed Opera installation,

Delete contents of sandbox