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Turning on Windows Sandbox feature hangs
I just got a new Dell machine with Windows 11 Pro installed on it. I wanted use the machine with Virtual Machines as well as Windows Sandbox feature. When I enable Hyper-V feature, the reboot works f...
I also have a Dell Pro Tower T2 with Windows 11, and I had the exact same issue. I was able to resolve it without having to re-install Windows.
On another computer I used the Windows 11 media creation tool available on the Microsoft website to create a bootable USB drive. I booted to that drive and started a Windows repair and I got to the Windows Recovery Environment and started a command prompt. Then this command disabled the Sandbox feature.
dism /Image:C:\ /Disable-Feature /FeatureName:"Containers-DisposableClientVM"After that I shut it down and rebooted and it came back up normally. Hope this helps someone else with this issue. This won't get Sandbox to work but at least the machine is usable again.