{"id":9431,"date":"2022-05-10T22:51:52","date_gmt":"2022-05-11T05:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/?p=9431"},"modified":"2022-07-24T23:48:44","modified_gmt":"2022-07-25T06:48:44","slug":"windows-sandbox-virtual-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2022\/05\/10\/windows-sandbox-virtual-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows Sandbox Virtual Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Windows Sandbox is a nice, quick virtual machine that you probably already have.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s great to use virtual machine software like this when you need to download and run suspicious software that might have a virus or be otherwise unsavory. Instead of hoping and praying that your anti-virus holds up, you just start a Sandbox and &#8216;tada!&#8217; you have an extra throwaway computer! Run programs in it, access the internet, copy files wherever. When you&#8217;re done, close the Sandbox and everything in it is GONE forever.<\/p>\n<p>Find out how to turn on <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows\/security\/threat-protection\/windows-sandbox\/windows-sandbox-overview\">Windows Sandbox here<\/a>. (I didn&#8217;t say &#8220;download&#8221; it because you already have it if you have Windows 10 Pro, Enterprise or Education build 18305 or Windows 11!)<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not as powerful as other virtual machine software like Virtualbox or VMware but it&#8217;s way easier to set up!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And just in case you need a real Windows 10 install in a virtual machine, you can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/244678\/you-dont-need-a-product-key-to-install-and-use-windows-10\/\">get it for free<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windows Sandbox is a nice, quick virtual machine that you probably already have. It&#8217;s great to use virtual machine software like this when you need to download and run suspicious software that might have a virus or be otherwise unsavory. Instead of hoping and praying that your anti-virus holds up, you just start a Sandbox [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9431"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9542,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9431\/revisions\/9542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}