Hyper-V enabled in windows 10 home and i can't turn it off

Question

Hi guys! So yesterday i wanted to use bluestacks, but he said that i need to turn off hyper-v, but i have windows 10 personal. I tried programs and features but there is no hyper-v. I also tried with powershell but it said:

Disable-WindowsOptionalFeature : Feature name Microsoft-Hyper-V-Hypervisor is unknown.
At line:1 char:1

• Disable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Hyper-V ...
• ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
• CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [Disable-WindowsOptionalFeature], COMException
• FullyQualifiedErrorId : Microsoft.Dism.Commands.DisableWindowsOptionalFeatureCommand

Answer 1

Hi,

Thanks for your reply!

Firstly, I would like to clarify that Hyper-V role cannot be installed in Windows 10 Home, here is the document:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/hyper-v-on-windows/quick-start/enable-hyper-v

So, you can see the reason for Disable-WindowsOptionalFeature : Feature name Microsoft-Hyper-V-Hypervisor is unknown.

In this place, for one thing, I would like to check why you thought you have enabled Hyper-V role, you just relied on what bluestacks said or you saw any evidence that led you think you had enabled Hyper-V role? If it was what bluestacks said that let you think you enabled Hyper-V role, you should directly contact with him about this fact that your home version cannot install Hyper-V role, and you can discuss further about your installation of bluestacks. If you saw any evidence, I guess that you might see virtualization enabled on your Task Manager, in this case, just ignore it since it is nothing to do with Hyper-V as such but allows you to run a 3rd party program to run a virtual machine. So, you can see, the reason why bluestacks told you to disable Hyper-V can be attributed to any third-party's virtualization functions. Here is a blog which is posted a similar issue with yours:

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-other_settings/disable-hyperv-in-win-10-home/2f81ddf6-e098-45e9-ab2a-7b7529dc8ea4

Thanks for your support! Have a nice day! : )

BR,
Joan

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Answer 2

Hello,

The fact is, Windows 10 Home doesn't supports Hyper-V. In your case, I suggest you to turn off virtualization settings in BIOS and see if it makes any differences in the situation.

Hope this helps!

Answer 3

Did you solve this yet?

I just solved this by disabling a security setting:

Windows Security -> Core isolation -> Memory integrity -> disable it

My issue wasn't identical to yours, but similar.

I have all hypervisor software not installed, but I couldn't enable Hybrid Sleep.

powercfg /a said that the hypervisor doesn't support hybrid sleep, but I don't have hypervisor software, and it worked perfectly on Windows 10 (on exactly the same hardware).

I did some searching and found this as a possible solution.

It seems that the memory integrity protection, which is a virtualization technology, uses something akin to (or actually) hypervisor software.

I see that your post is 2 years old but maybe you didn't find a solution yet, or maybe anyone else might stumble upon this page looking for a solution, like I did!

Answer 4

edit - duplicate post, sorry, the layout of this website is weird

and, can't delete answers or comments? so weird