How to Turn Off Hyper-v on Windows 10, Disable Hyper-v

This practical guide walks through how to turn off hyper-v on Windows 10, disable hyper-v, explains the main requirements, and highlights common issues that may appear along the way.

1. How to turn off Hyper-V using Control Panel

To disable Hyper-V using the Control Panel, follow these steps:

Press Windows + R to open Run.
Click appwiz.cpl and then press Enter to open the Programs and Features editing window.

1. How to turn off Hyper-V using Control Panel — How to Turn Off Hyper-v on Windows 10, Disable Hyper-v

In this window, find and click Turn Windows features on or off.
Next, expand the Hyper-V > Hyper-V Platform folder and uncheck Hyper-V Hypervisor. Or you can simply uncheck the Hyper-V folder.

1. How to turn off Hyper-V using Control Panel — How to Turn Off Hyper-v on Windows 10, Disable Hyper-v

Now exit the Control Panel and restart the computer.

2. Disable Hyper-V using PowerShell

To disable Hyper-V using PowerShell, follow these steps:

Press Windows + R to open the Power User menu.

2. Disable Hyper-V using PowerShell — How to Turn Off Hyper-v on Windows 10, Disable Hyper-v

Press A to open PowerShell as admin.
You copy the following command line and paste it into PowerShell and press Enter:

Disable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Hyper-V-Hypervisor

If you need to re-enable Hyper-V, just replace Disable in the command with Enable.
You wait for the command to finish running and then restart the computer.

2. Disable Hyper-V using PowerShell — How to Turn Off Hyper-v on Windows 10, Disable Hyper-v

3. How to turn off Hyper-V using Registry Editor

Before interfering with the Registry, you should back it up to make sure that there are no unfortunate problems.

To disable Hyper-V using Registry Editor, follow these steps:

Press Windows + R to open Run, type notepad and press Enter to open Notepad.
Copy and paste the following code into Notepad:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE|SYSTEM|CurrentControlSet|Control|DeviceGuard] "RequireMicrosoftSignedBootChain"=dword:00000000 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE|SYSTEM|CurrentControlSet|Control|DeviceGuard|Scenarios] [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE|SYSTEM|Control|CurrentControl| ] "WasEnabledBy"=dword:00000000 "Enabled"=dword:00000000

3. How to turn off Hyper-V using Registry Editor — How to Turn Off Hyper-v on Windows 10, Disable Hyper-v

Click File and then select Save As.
Choose a place to save the file then name the file with the .reg extension, for example Disable_HyperV.reg.
Select All File from the Save as type list.

3. How to turn off Hyper-V using Registry Editor — How to Turn Off Hyper-v on Windows 10, Disable Hyper-v

Double-click the file you just saved to edit the Registry Editor.
If you need to confirm, click Run > Yes (UAC) > Yes > OK.

3. How to turn off Hyper-V using Registry Editor — How to Turn Off Hyper-v on Windows 10, Disable Hyper-v

If you like, you can delete the .reg file after you're done.

Above are three ways to disable Hyper-V on Windows 10. Good luck!

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