How do i fix "Windows sandbox failed to initialise" on Windows 11 Home

Reece Dunster (Windows 11 User) 0 Reputation points
2024-01-17T02:47:14.0233333+00:00

My Windows 11 Home version Came with Windows Sandbox (I Installed windows 11 home on July 27th 2023), So I enabled it today and restarted my pc 4 times and it now says "Windows Sandbox failed to initialise" (my pc is 23h2 update) PLEASE HELP ME GET WINDOWS SANDBOX!!!!!!!!!!! pls help

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-01-17T04:26:12.73+00:00

    Hi Reece Dunster (Windows 11 User),

    Please open Windows PowerShell as administrator and run this command to enable the sandbox.

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

    Run these commands to see if the error can be fixed.

    DISM /Online /Cleanup-image /RestoreHealth
    sfc /scannnow
    

    If the error persists, run bcdedit.exe in PowerShell and make sure the hypervisorlaunchtype is set to Auto. If not, run

    bcdedit.exe /set hypervisorlaunchtype auto
    

    You can also open services.msc and manually restart the services Hyper-V Host Computer Service (vmcompute) and Hyper-V Virtual Machine Management (vmms).

    Best Regards,

    Ian Xue


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