The Windows Sandbox and the Microsoft Defender Application Guard (WDAG) now launch faster in Windows 10 after installing the Insider Preview Build 21343 for Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel. A ...

It can be difficult to tell which apps are safe and trustworthy from the ones that aren't. Install an app that turns out to be malicious and there's no no way to back the clock. That may be changing ...

Microsoft is introducing a new feature called Windows Sandbox that will allow you to safely run executables in a throw-away virtualized sandbox without fear of your regular Windows install becoming ...

Hyper-V virtual machines have their uses, but the sandbox feature in Windows 10 can work just as well, is easier to set up and takes up much less disk space. Since I first adopted Windows 10, I have ...

Windows Sandbox is here to protect your PC. A simple, virtualized Windows within Windows, it’s a place where an app can be safely run if you’re worried it might be malware. Microsoft announced Windows ...

Sandbox is a feature of Windows 10, so I didn't need to download anything else -- I only needed to enable the feature in Windows. After a short wait, I saw a Sandbox icon on my Windows desktop. As ...

A few months ago, Microsoft let slip a forthcoming Windows 10 feature that was, at the time, called InPrivate Desktop: a lightweight virtual machine for running untrusted applications in an isolated ...

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