Windows 10: Windows 10’s Sandbox will allow you to run unknown apps in temporary desktop

Microsoft is working on yet another interesting feature for Windows 10 and the company is calling it ‘Sandbox’. Windows Sandbox is supposed to debut next year with Windows 10 19H1 (Spring 2019 Update) in April and the first preview of the new feature could be released to Insiders later this week.

Windows Sandbox is primarily aimed at businesses and power users with Windows 10 Enterprise or Windows 10 Pro license. The new Windows 10 feature will allow the businesses and users to run unknown or suspicious applications in isolation without any changes made to the PC.

It’s a useful feature when you’re unsure whether the application which you downloaded from the internet is legit or suspicious.

Windows Sandbox creates a temporary desktop environment where you can run the suspicious apps without worrying about the actual desktop.


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Microsoft says that Windows Sandbox will allow users to run untrusted software without the fear of lasting impact to your PC. You don’t need to be afraid of the downloaded programs anymore as you can test them in a temporary desktop environment and it won’t affect your host (the actual desktop).

Every time when the user will launch Windows Sandbox, a brand-new installation of Windows will be created and it will automatically remove the software when the user closes it.

Windows Sandbox is a lightweight virtual machine


Windows Sandbox works like the virtual machine but the purpose is different and Sandbox can be created easily.

Windows Sandbox is a lightweight virtual machine and the feature is integrated into Windows 10. Sandbox also needs an operating system image to boot from but it can copy the current installation of Windows 10 on your computer and there is no need to download a new VHD image.

The users are also required to enable virtualization and AMD64 in the BIOS to run Sandbox feature.

Microsoft says that the Sandbox feature will launch with Windows 10 19H1 update next year but it can be enabled in Windows 10 Build 18305 which will be released to Insiders this week.

Windows 10 19H1 update will also introduce several other helpful features including the ability to set default tab in Task Manager, a whole new light theme experience, new Action Center features and more.

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Desktop app runs as background process?

Thank you for your reply, Joy.

I tried what you suggested and unfortunately my application isn't listed there. It's not a Windows 10 app, but an older 32-bit application that should run in windowed mode, but for some reason when I double click its icon it starts as a background process
instead of a windowed app. That happens in most of the cases, fortunately, at the end it somehow starts as a desktop app. But I cannot reproduce this behavior.

As a temporary solution, to keep it in windowed mode I never shut the computer down, but instead I leave the application running and put the computer to sleep.

Is there a setting to instruct Windows to run my application as a desktop application and not as a background process? Thank you.

Regards,

A

 

Windows 10 - Remote Desktop

Hi,

We will surely assist you with the issue you are facing with Windows 10.
- Which version of Windows 10 Operating System are you using?

- Were you able to upgrade to Windows 10 successfully?

I suggest you to refer the below steps and see if this helps.

• 
  Enable remote desktop in settings
  
  • Control Panel\System and Security\System, Click "Remote Settings" on the left side
• 
  Verify my port forwarding settings were properly forwarding to my computers local IP address
  
  • run "cmd.exe" and then type "ipconfig". Find your IP from that list

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• Make sure your firewall settings are open
• Go to "Control Panel\System and Security\Windows Firewall\Allowed apps"

• On the left, click "Allow an app or feature through Windows Firewall"
• Click "Change Settings"
• Find "Remote Desktop" in the list and make sure both "Private" and "Public" is checked.

Let us know if this helps.

Thank you.

Credits to : Jace_Sango.