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>>pjmlp+(OP)
So I have this mod manager for Elder Scrolls: Oblivion that sets up a virtual filesystem as an overlay over the game's original directory structure, and then launches the game in a way that makes the game see the overlay as if they were the original files. I am very impressed at what seems like outright computer voodoo, I had no idea Windows had those kinds of APIs or that kind of capability.

I don't know how this tech works but I feel like we could have had this already using the tech I described above.

>>pdntsp+2z1
Filesystem (and registry) redirection has been around in Windows for a while, and is used to e.g. make sure that pre-Vista apps still run if they do things like trying to write to "Program Files". But that all assumes that the app is not adversarial - proper sandboxing is a different story.