Windows Sandbox

Owned by Pierrick Bouvier
Feb 02, 2023
1 min read

Windows Sandbox is a technology that allows to launch a clean windows environment. It is deleted automatically after use.

We thought about using it as a replacement for containerization technology, but the base image can’t be modified, and it’s not possible to save modified environment. Thus, it can’t be used efficiently to reproduce builds.

This investigation Playing in the (Windows) Sandbox - Check Point Research shows that it uses some container technologies (for filesystem layers).