Windows Sandbox: How to Test a Program More Safely
Goal: Windows Sandbox provides a disposable Windows environment for testing software without installing it directly on your main Windows session. It is useful for suspicious-but-not-known-malicious files, installers you want to inspect, and reproducible tests. It is not a perfect malware-analysis laboratory, and networking, clipboard, and mapped folders can create paths back to the host if you enable them carelessly. Quick steps Confirm that your Windows edition and hardware support Windows Sandbox and virtualization is enabled. Enable Windows Sandbox through Windows Features and restart if requested. Launch Sandbox from Start. Transfer only the file you need to test. For higher isolation, disable networking and clipboard redirection with a .wsb configuration. Close Sandbox when finished; its disposable state is deleted. Expected result: the application runs in an isolated temporary Windows instance, and closing Sandbox discards that instance’s changes.