In recent months, the word Sandbox or "sandbox" has been appearing a lot in blogs, web pages and social networks. This term refers to a security technique that allows us to use insecure applications in our operating system and our operating system does not suffer any damage.
Sanboxing is a technique that offers a safe environment for the application to run but that it cannot do anything with other data or applications on the system or do it in a limited way so as not to harm our operating system.
This technique can be enabled in Windows 10, but the simplest formula is to opt for a third-party application that in addition to being free, allows us other security options such as creating restore points, profiles, etc ...
Sandboxing offers security to both users and developers
In this case we can choose Sandboxie, a free application although it has a premium version with more functions. Sandboxie can be downloaded from this link and after installing it it will run automatically with the system. Sandboxie allows us to run applications but also to visit web pages, view and download email or even be able to temporarily disable it, that is, to inform that the X application does not work as an application with Sandbox but as a normal application.
Windows 10 Universal Apps already use this technique since in addition to offering security to the user regarding the operating system, an application with sandbox helps that after a failed update or with operating system problems, the application continues to function because the environment is isolated.
Other alternatives to Sandboxie or similar to Sanboxing is the technique of freezing the computer. This technique consists of freeze the hard drive at a point after which we can work But when the power goes out, the hard drive will go back to that point. It is as effective or more than sandboxing, but it is more tedious than this technique and affects both insecure applications and totally secure applications.
Personally, I recommend using the Sandboxing technique, something safer and easier than other techniques, but also more optimized for Windows 10 than in other operating systems.