Windows Sandbox
a new lightweight desktop environment tailored for safely running applications in isolation.
- Free • Proprietary
- Virtualization
- Windows
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Easy to install, without any knowledge
Preinstalled in Win 10 v18305, but only windows OS dekstop environment supported
Only avalible on Windows 10 Pro
Pretty broken at the moment, even while using an Insider build.
There's definitely potential here though. In 2-3 years when Microsoft has finally bothered to work out the issues, this will be a great program. Until then, just use Virtualbox.
It's not really a virtual machine though, it's a sandbox. Running files such as an .exe in an isolated environment. No need for a VM if you just need it for stuff like that.
Reply written 24 days ago
On my laptop with Windows 10 Pro, this works flawlessly. Truly a piece of art, only missing the ability to save the contents of your Sandbox when you shut down.
On my stationary, also with Windows 10 Pro, this is a broken mess and I have no idea why. Several reinstalls and it just doesn't work, even on a clean install. This seems to be an incompatibility with either my motherboard or my processor that started happening after a Windows update. If they fix it and add saving, then this gets 5 stars.
Until then, this is pretty useless to me.
Did you check the virtualisation setting in the BIOS ?
Reply written almost 2 years ago