Windows 10: Is it safe to delete baselayer and sandbox from Containers Folder

First post. Hello everyone and Happy New Year. I made the mistake of following the tutorial to enable Sandbox. It failed miserably, with different errors at different times such as the common Error: 0x80072746. So I disabled Sandbox but i still have this garbage partition sitting there with 8GB allocated. For those who had success disabling Sandbox to remove this partition (portablebaselayer), good for you. This does not work on my system, despite turning off all relevant features such as VMP and even containers. After googling for hours I found a link to vhdx files and i did a search using WiseJet. My question. Is it safe to delete vhdx files linked to Sandbox and baselayer? I don't use containers. examples of the many related folders with vhdx files: C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Containers\Sandboxes\a7a6c2d7-f74d-4386-91b0-b2c683d1cdd2\sandbox.vhdx C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Containers\BaseImages\0cd2da3a-d34b-4084-bfa5-ef3781acf177\baselayer.vhdx I'm hoping deleting these files might finally allow me to get rid of this garbage partition. Windows 10 Home Version 1903 Build 18362.592 - - - Updated - - - Update: I was able to uninstall the portablebaselayer through Device Manager, Disk Drives. Once uninstalled it no longer appeared under Computer Management, but on reboot it reappeared. There has to be a way to get rid of this. It only appeared when I tried to install Sandbox (epic fail) and all suggested methods to have it disappear have failed. Also, yes you can delete the virtual drive files in the containers folders but the ones related to baselayer will reappear on reboot.

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Is it safe to delete baselayer and sandbox from Containers Folder

Not on my system. If you read my original post, that's the point i made. Disabling the Sandbox on my Home version, my build, will not delete this partition. And yes I've read that post and dozens more, none of which worked. The only way I found to delete this partition was through the Device Manager, but it reappeared on reboot.

Just for complete clarity and to avoid getting the same link above over and over, I have unchecked all the boxes required including Sandbox, WHP, VMP, and even Containers.

And yes, I've tried disabling through admin/elevated powershell as well as from the cmd prompt. Neither method worked although both ran error free and removed the Sandbox, but not the partition.









Deleting the Virtual disk, will remove the partition until the next reboot





And yes, this is a dual boot system which still has a 32 bit Win 8 (Don't ask!)

 

Is it safe to delete baselayer and sandbox from Containers Folder

First post. Hello everyone and Happy New Year.
I made the mistake of following the tutorial to enable Sandbox. It failed miserably, with different errors at different times such as the common Error: 0x80072746.

So I disabled Sandbox but i still have this garbage partition sitting there with 8GB allocated. For those who had success disabling Sandbox to remove this partition (portablebaselayer), good for you. This does not work on my system, despite turning off all relevant features such as VMP and even containers.

After googling for hours I found a link to vhdx files and i did a search using WiseJet.
My question. Is it safe to delete vhdx files linked to Sandbox and baselayer? I don't use containers.
examples of the many related folders with vhdx files:

C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Containers\Sandboxes\a7a6c2d7-f74d-4386-91b0-b2c683d1cdd2\sandbox.vhdx

C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Containers\BaseImages\0cd2da3a-d34b-4084-bfa5-ef3781acf177\baselayer.vhdx

I'm hoping deleting these files might finally allow me to get rid of this garbage partition.



Windows 10 Home
Version 1903
Build 18362.592

- - - Updated - - -

Update: I was able to uninstall the portablebaselayer through Device Manager, Disk Drives. Once uninstalled it no longer appeared under Computer Management, but on reboot it reappeared.
There has to be a way to get rid of this. It only appeared when I tried to install Sandbox (epic fail) and all suggested methods to have it disappear have failed.

Also, yes you can delete the virtual drive files in the containers folders but the ones related to baselayer will reappear on reboot.

 

Is it safe to delete baselayer and sandbox from Containers Folder

Welcome to Ten Forums BillDoor.

The Containers folder is used not just by Sandbox, but also if you turn on Application Guard.

A while back, when it was first introduced, a few of us were curious, turned on Application Guard and lived to regret it, with large files appearing in Containers. My first attempt at removing them was less than successful...

What is this large folder? - post #37

Fortunately had a Macrium system image I could restore. Subsequently I found some registry keys that also needed deleting. See if this post helps:

What is this large folder? - post #43