Windows 10: Hyper-V Installation

Hello all,


Thanks to everyone who replied to my las question in regard to installing Microsoft's "Virtual PC" program on my

Windows 10 Pro machine. I asked if there was a Microsoft program, such as "Virtual PC," which I had installed on

my Windows 7 Professional machine - so that I could run a program that would not run on any operating system

newer than XP.


I installed Microsoft's Hyper-V on this Windows 10 machine. At least, I think that I have installed it correctly. When

I click the "Start" button in the lower left corner of the Desktop and scroll down the program list, there are two

entries - in Windows Administrative Tools: Hyper-V Manager and Hyper-V Quick Create.


I am not sure what I need to do next. On the Windows 7 machine, an icon was created on the Desktop, called

"Windows XP Mode" and I went to that and installed the program that would not run on any operating system

newer than XP. Do I need to go out and purchase a (legitimate) copy of the Windows XP operating system and

install it on the Windows 10 machine, or is the computer all ready for the installation of this program that I am

trying to run on the Windows 10 machine?


Thank you very much for any assistance with this!


Brad Anbro

Bluff City, Tennessee

:)

 

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

Hi Njha98,

You can remove Hyper-V by going to the control panel > add and remove programs > turn windows features on or off > and in the list there you should see Hyper-V

remove the checkbox and this will remove hyper-v

you may need to reboot