My Hyper-V Machine has no applications on the desktop so i cant do anything. It just has a purple background.

Question

Hello everyone,

I have just setup a VM using the Hyper V manager, and once i completed the entire process, I managed to load a 'desktop' but it had nothing but the purple background and the accessibility/shut down options. No way to access google or any applications. Does anyone know why this would be? I've attached an image with the screen I am getting.

Answer 1

Hello,

There are different configurations that can produce this behavior, to not show the logon. The usual solution ius to press CTRL+ALT+DEL to bring the logon screen.

In regards to the problem itself, you can try the next:

• Start the VM in Safe Mode: In Hyper-V Manager select Settings, then go to Automatic Start Action and set a startup delay there. Now you'll have time to press F8 in order to start the selective boot on the VM.
• Disable Enhanced Boot Mode: You can use the next guide to familizare with this setting, https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/virtualization/hyper-v/learn-more/use-local-resources-on-hyper-v-virtual-machine-with-vmconnect
• If using a SysPrep-ed image to build the VM, ensure that the /generalize step as been correctly done
• If using a XML unattended installation, check if there is any boot condition that could work in Windows 10 but not in Windows 11. You can check more details about changed in Unattended.XML files for Windows 11 here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/customize/desktop/unattend/

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