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install malware or to spy on you. How could you know? And how can you

try it out without risking your machine?

With the May 2019 Update, Microsoft has an answer. The Sandbox app
(Figure 6-18) creates a titanium bubble within Windows. You can run any
app inside this window without worrying. The app can’t touch anything else

on your PC! It’s completely isolated—and when you quit Sandbox, no trace
of the app or its activity remains.

The Sandbox starts out hidden, because it’s intended for power users. To

find it, open the Control Panel (“The Control Panel”)→ Programs → Turn
Windows Features On or Off. Turn on “Windows Sandbox.”

Now a new app, Windows Sandbox, magically appears in your Start menu.

When you open it, you get a floating window that’s a perfect duplicate of
your current version of Windows—but it’s a virgin setup, as though it’s
been a clean install.

Feel free to download and install anything you want in this inner sanctum;
no matter how sketchy or infected it may be, it can’t hurt your actual PC or
your copy of Windows.

When you’re finished playing, close the app, confirm that you want
everything in that mini–Windows world completely vaporized, and marvel
at Microsoft’s ingenuity.