{"version":"2.1.221","anchor":"windows-sandbox-helper-hidden-windows-and-real-timeout-error","canonical_anchor":"windows-sandbox-helper-hidden-windows-and-real-timeout-error","heading":"Windows sandbox helper: hidden windows and real timeout errors","tier":"notice","area":"Windows","scope":null,"heads_up":null,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.221\/e\/windows-sandbox-helper-hidden-windows-and-real-timeout-error","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.221","markdown":"### Windows sandbox helper: hidden windows and real timeout errors\n\nOn Windows, sandbox helper windows stay hidden and timeouts now tell you a UAC prompt may be open.\n\n**What**\n\nsrt-win invocations spawn with windowsHide set, and a spawn that returns ETIMEDOUT now raises a typed timeout error instead of a generic spawn failure.\n\n**Details**\n\n- the timeout error carries the full argv and the elapsed milliseconds\n- the install path maps that code onto a message about the UAC prompt possibly still being open\n- Windows only, and only on the srt-win sandbox path\n\n**Evidence**\n\n`srt_win_timeout`\n\n- Area: Windows\n- Tier: You'll notice\n- Useful: 3\/5\n- Signal: 0\/5"}