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Windows Sandbox

Windows Sandbox provides a lightweight desktop environment to safely run applications in isolation. Software installed inside the Windows Sandbox environment remains "sandboxed" and runs separately from the host machine.

A sandbox is temporary. When it's closed, all the software and files and the state are deleted. You get a brand-new instance of the sandbox every time you open the application.

-- from microsoft documentation

Installing Windows Sandbox using PowerShell

Open PowerShell as an administrator

Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -FeatureName "Containers-DisposableClientVM" -All -Online

https://adamtheautomator.com/windows-10-sandbox-mode/

Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Hyper-V -All

If you feel Windows 10 Hyper-V is affecting your gaming performance or otherwise (without a virtual machine environment running), you can use a command to switch Hyper-V virtualization services off.

bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype off
restart
bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype on

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