Windows 10: How do I stop my WSL2 virtual machine starting automatically?

I recently set up WSL2 because I needed to run an instance of Ubuntu for a particular purpose. The trouble is that it now starts up automatically when Windows starts and takes up memory (vmmem in the Task Manager) even though I will only very rarely be likely to need to use it in the future.

I have also recently been getting frequent "Internal power error" BSODs and system freezes without BSODs after a minute or two when I wake my laptop from sleep or hibernate and I suspect that this may be connected. I have just enlarged the hibernate file to 100% to see if that will fix the problem, but I would rather not have an unnecessary process taking up large amounts of memory in the first place, particularly as memory management is one area where WSL2 still has a lot of room for improvement.

I know that I can enter a command at the command prompt to shut my virtual machine down, but is there a way to stop it starting up in the first place until I actually need to use it?

I'm using Windows version 2004.

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I think I have found the answer.

To activate or deactivate WSL, open a PowerShell window as administrator and use one of these two commands:

Code:

Code:

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How do I stop my WSL2 virtual machine starting automatically?

I recently set up WSL2 because I needed to run an instance of Ubuntu for a particular purpose. The trouble is that it now starts up automatically when Windows starts and takes up memory (vmmem in the Task Manager) even though I will only very rarely be likely to need to use it in the future.

I have also recently been getting frequent "Internal power error" BSODs and system freezes without BSODs after a minute or two when I wake my laptop from sleep or hibernate and I suspect that this may be connected. I have just enlarged the hibernate file to 100% to see if that will fix the problem, but I would rather not have an unnecessary process taking up large amounts of memory in the first place, particularly as memory management is one area where WSL2 still has a lot of room for improvement.

I know that I can enter a command at the command prompt to shut my virtual machine down, but is there a way to stop it starting up in the first place until I actually need to use it?

I'm using Windows version 2004.

- - - Updated - - -

I think I have found the answer.

To activate or deactivate WSL, open a PowerShell window as administrator and use one of these two commands:

Code:

Code:

 

WSL2 for windows

I have failed into installing WSL for Windows. I have read here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/win.../install-win10 how to do it, and at step 4:

1. Download the latest package:
   
   • WSL2 Linux kernel update package for x64 machines
   [COLOR=var(--text)][COLOR=var(--info-dark)] Note[/COLOR]
   If you're using an ARM64 machine, please download the ARM64 package instead. If you're not sure what kind of machine you have, open Command Prompt or PowerShell and enter: systeminfo | find "System Type".
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2. Run the update package downloaded in the previous step. (Double-click to run - you will be prompted for elevated permissions, select ‘yes’ to approve this installation.)

I encountered:





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What I did wrong ? I have the following W10 version:




Another question: am I in the the right forum ?

 

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