Enable Windows Sandbox on Windows 11

By João Ferreira Feb 20, 2022 Windows 0 Comments

Windows Sandbox is an isolated environment available in the Enterprise and Pro versions of Windows that allows you to test applications in a secure way without harming the main operating system.

Despite being available in these two versions of Windows, it does not come installed by default and to make use of it, first you need to install it by doing the following:

1. Open the Start menu and click in the Settings icon
2. On the vertical menu click on Apps and then click on Optional features
   
3. In the following menu scroll down to the bottom and click on More Windows features
4. Look for the Windows Sandbox option and check it
   

   

5. Click Ok, wait a few seconds for the installation to complete and then click on Restart now

Once the computer restarts you will be able to find your Sandbox environment in the Start menu next to your other programs.

Click on it to launch a new instance of Windows, copy the executables you want to test from the main operating system or download them using the Edge browser from the sandbox instance.

Once you are done with the testing you can simply close the sandbox environment and all your data will be cleared.