The Win10 sandbox requires win10 Pro or Enterprise (see https://www.windowscentral.com/how-use-windows-sandbox-windo...), so Win10 Home users will want Sandboxie.

It sucks though, as you can only run one sandbox at a time and there is no notion of persistence.

How does this compare with Sandboxie?

Are there any reasons to use one over the other?

1. When you open a win10 sandbox it appears as a fresh install of windows. Only Microsoft Edge is pre-installed. If you like to tweak privacy settings etc then you'll need to re-tweak them every time you start up a win10 sandbox (as they too get forgotten)>

2. Everything gets wiped when you close a win10 sandbox (so installations can't survive beyond a login session). In Sandboxie you appear to get a copy of your existing OS, and the copy is only wiped when you choose to wipe it (so it can survive across login sessions). The win10 sandbox is wiped when you close it, and you have to close it to turn off the PC.

3. Win10 sandbox seems not to like making the camera or microphone available to apps (eg zoom, skype) whereas Sandboxie is happy with making them available.

4. Because of the above, win10 sandbox is probably more secure than sandboxie, but there is no indication of where the sandbox state was stored, so it isn't possible to secure delete it like you can with sandboxie.

There's a feature that I really like in Sandboxie, which is that it can preserve certain folders from being deleted.

I use this feature when I run Firefox in a Sandboxie sandbox while preserving it history and bookmarks. I find it pretty annoying to have those cleared whenever I delete my sandbox, so much prefer to have those saved.

It sounds like the win10 sandbox can't do this.

Windows builtin sandbox is based on hyperv. So it is basically a virtual machine and everything that entails.

Sandboxie is super lightweight cupboard to that.

And since it's hyperv you can't use it if you need to run VirtualBox VMs :(

I got really excited, installed the service and then an hour later tried to fire up VirtualBox and was very disappointed.