Getting StartedĪs Microsoft article states, you need to be on “Windows 10 Pro, Enterprise or Education build 18305 or Windows 11”, so not Windows 10 Home, for example.

Think installing some application to test it or use it once, or inspecting unusual or suspicious links and documents. But given its ephemeral nature, it’s very well suited to temporary tasks where you don’t want to affect your main computer. You get aīrand-new instance of the sandbox every time you open the application. When it’s closed, all the software and files and the state are deleted.

Installed inside the Windows Sandbox environment remains “sandboxed” and runs separately from the hostĪ sandbox is temporary. Windows Sandbox provides a lightweight desktop environment to safely run applications in isolation. You can launch it, do what you want, and when you close it it’s all gone: Windows Sandbox is a convenient, pre-installed and licenced virtualised version of Windows. Want to see where that dodgy link goes, install a temporary application or inspect a suspicious file? If you’re on Windows, if you enable the Sandbox it’s the perfect tool.

Windows sandbox