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[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 month ago (10 children)

Good luck with opening the subdirectories of C:\WindowsApps\. I ran Explorer as admin, gave myself R/W permissions, even recursively changed ownership of everything, followed all the online guides... Still denied access.

[–] filcuk 13 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Those're probably containerised.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Sandboxed rather than containerised I think.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

what was the difference for those of us who dont know, like andrew over here 😂

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Sandboxed typically restricts a program from being able to read/write to various areas (think an app isn't allowed to use the network, or access USB devices, or it's only allowed access to a certain directory in the filesystem).

Containerised is a way of virtualising an app/apps so that they can be easily distributed to run once or thousands. They can and are also sandboxed to different degrees.

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