Windows 10: How can I cleanup unfinished Hyper-V downloads?

I am using Windows 10 Pro and I enabled Hyper-V in order to install a Windows 11 virtual machine. Hyper-V recommended at least 37 GB of space in C: and I had 40 GB so I installed the virtual machine but after the download finished, it told me the drive didn't have enough space. After the process ended, I found that C: was still missing about 20 GB of space. I checked the virtual machine folder but it was empty. I need this space for other purposes. Is there any way to cleanup this space? I disabled Hyper-V but it is useless.

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Hyper V deativication

Hi Geoffrey,

Hyper-V lets you run an operating system or computer system as a virtual machine on Windows. Before proceeding in disabling
Hyper-V, please create a backup of your files for security purposes.

To disable Hyper-V, please follow the steps below:

• On the Cortana search box, type Turn Windows Features on or off and press
  Enter.
• Look for the Hyper-V folder.
• Uncheck the tick-box next to the main Hyper-V folder and click
  OK.
• Restart your PC.

Should you have further questions, please let us know.

 

Where is the Hyper V Manager, How to I start it ?

I am trying to setup an XP virtual Machine on Windows 10 Pro.

I followed the steps in Neil Peterson article of 5/9/2016.

System Requirements - done - ok

Install Hyper-V - done - ok

Create a Virtual Switch - skip

Create a Virtual Machine

Create a Virtual Machine with Hyper-V Manager

These steps walk through how to manually create a virtual machine and deploy an operating system to this virtual machine.

• 
  In Hyper-V Manager, click Action > New >
  Virtual Machine to bring up the New
  

Uhhhhhhhhh - this step obviously implies one knows

1) Where the Hyper-V Manager is

2) How to start the Hyper-V Manager

Isn't that odd ?

 

Hyper-V

Follow the steps of the following link, you will find some options on activating Hyper-V

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization...