It also was installed into my PC!

It's installed there by default.

@@lucky_lol and what is that? 1:27

It's not as good as an actual virtual machine though, because Sandbox does share some resources with your main Windows install in a way that could potentially have exploitable leaks.

Mine also has Edge installed

For me VirtualBox just crashes when it's on and you try to start a machine

That could explain why Java uses too much CPU in my machine

Switch to vmware

@@Ivedotwav I'm fairly sure that VMware had similar issues unless they recently updated in in v 16

@@twinssword VMware does perform worse when Hyper-V hypervisor is active, but it is usable.

Idk it's risky to go about disabling services you don't understand

You can disable the Print Spooler if you don't have a printer. I haven't had any repercussions with doing that.

If you don't want to spend much time looking up services that are safe to disable just look for ones that you know for sure you won't use like print spooler, Bluetooth or old apps that you don't use but have background services running.

Chris Titus Tech

Well,I personally think that disabling a few of them won't break your machine, I also disabled some of them and my laptop runs fine,also if you want you can change the startup type of many services to manual

Noice

If your motherboard dies, you're also potentially screwed, if you lose your Bitlocker key. The problem with Bitlocker, is you're at risk of being locked out of your own data due to hardware failure. Unless you have sensitive data you're taking out of your home to a public setting, there's not reason to use it. As for disposing of drive, there are many utilities, including some that are free, which will do military grade erasures. You could also take a power drill and drive holes in the drive before you dispose of it.

@@wildbill4496 if you’re making proper backups losing your computer shouldn’t be a concern.

@@disgustedluigi So you're saying you're encrypting your working drive, but not your, presumably external, backup drives? Then what's the point of encrypting anything?

@@wildbill4496 what are you talking about, you can encrypt your backups too you know. And not just with Bitlocker. A lot of DAS or NAS devices (both retail or open source DIY) have their own robust encryption and data security methods. Plus if you keep them in, say, a locked networking closet in an enclosed rack you get the added physical security as well.

​@@disgustedluigi Yeah let's tell every computer owner to go out and put a safe in their house to lock up their backup drives. LOL. The problem is the same with backup drives. If you lose your encryption key and your hardware fails you are still screwed with Bitlocker. The vast majority of home consumers do not need to encrypt their drives, if they secure their home network, and encrypting their drives actually adds another potential point for data loss. Now if you have a laptop you are frequently traveling with, then yes it would be a good idea to encrypt those drives if they contain sensitive data, but you are beyond paranoid (or probably doing something illegal or living in a bad neighborhood with lots of breakins), if you feel the need to encrypt drives that stay in your home and/or don't take into public settings. Simply put for most home consumers, the risks outweigh the benefits, when it comes to encrypting drives.

Damn, EU seems to be the only place that actually cares about peoples privacy

bitlocker is so useless

@@alexandreman8601 No without bitlocker anyone on the network can read the data of your harddrive. Furthermore if your laptop gets stolen they can read the data of your harddrive as well by plugging it in to there pc. Bitlocker blocks those 2 things.

@@alexandreman8601 do you know how it works? It's very useful

Microsoft protecting ppl data 😂

Sorry my keyboard autocorrect

I completely agree with that

I make my pin larger than my use to be password. I make them alphanumeric!

uhh

Hmmm

Also, if it's so much security that it compromises your privacy. I chose Windows Defender as the security software on my new PC because of privacy, actually, because it's less likely MS is gathering much info from their AV when they already gather info from other places on the OS.

@@jakobfel2 Defender sends to M$ the name of every domain you visit in any browser, and the hash and filename of every binary you launch. With Defender off, OS itself does not do that.

@@BarafuAlbino If you have automatic sample submission on, yes. MS is already getting that info through other means in the OS. I'd rather not give my data to other corpos more than I have to.

Difference?

How are they different?

I recommend Sandboxie Plus as your 3rd party app and have used it since I had Windows 10 Home but now I got Windows 10 Pro version.

The warnings you get from Controlled Folder Access are not false positives. That is its literal job, to not allow untrusted apps to access folders. You can just go and whatever you're running to exclusions.

@@heyporange sadly with a lot of updated to even trusted programs it blocks em because of the temp files created. So you would still have to turn it off, update and then reenable

@@Damascus_Zeramas You don't have to turn it off. Just add the executable to exclusions.

@@heyporange i did and have but it always game me an error as it tried to make a temp file in an “invisible” location (not in a hidden file mind you) and it never allowed it to update. I have a long list of excluded programs and it still caused the issue. So it remains off

@@heyporange I mean I get that but it just constantly blocks apps over and over. Worst part is that some apps just give an error when they are not able to save with no chance to retry. Some installers that save shortcut to Desktop also give errors during install (so I don’t know if the program completely installed just without the shortcut or it is an incomplete install)