Recently I tried to run a setup program into the Windows Sandbox, but Windows Defender blocked it. About 60 seconds later, I discovered that I cannot disable/configure it from the usual UI. After some investigation, I discovered that we can do it by a couple of commands in PowerShell with administrative access rights: Set-ItemProperty -Path “HKLM:\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\CI\Policy” -Name “VerifiedAndReputablePolicyState” -Value “0” CiTool.exe -r After applying these … Continue reading HOWTO switch off Defender in Windows Sandbox »