But for most home users, a good antivirus or malware suite will keep you safe from malicious apps just as well. No doubt a useful feature if you regularly install apps from questionable sources. Closing the sandbox environment discards everything installed there automatically.

It’s technical but it’s extremely powerful and addresses some persistent pain points which have dogged certain users for a. If you wanted to test a suspicious app, you could install it in this sandbox where it can be tested separately from the rest of the OS. The next headline feature of Pro Tools 2022.9 is Aux I/O, a new feature which allows you to add any Core Audio device as extra inputs and outputs to your current Playback Engine. Included as part of Windows 10 Pro, the sandbox is a lightweight desktop environment used to run applications safely in isolation. In Windows 10, Microsoft decided that this level of protection was more suited to business users, so its use was disabled in the Home edition. The difference between the two processes is how they secure the boot process: Secure Boot checks for hardware vulnerabilities, and Trusted Boot checks the Windows kernel.

Unlike Windows 11, which uses both Secure Boot and Trusted Boot, Windows 10 only offers the Trusted Boot security process in the Pro edition.