Enabling and Disabling Hyper-V in Powershell

I sometimes find myself having to disable Hyper-V in Windows 10 temporarily in order to run some other virtualization software like VirtualBox. While it is possible to enable and disable Hyper-V in Window Features, I find it a lot more convenient running a Powershell command to enable and disable it.

Solution

1. Open an elevated Powershell window. You can do this by searching for Windows Powershell in the search menu, right-clicking it and selecting Run as administrator
   

2. Run the following commands to enable/disable Hyper-V:

   Enable Hyper-V

   Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Hyper-V –All
   

   Disable Hyper-V

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

3. Restart your computer for the changes to take effect.

Closing

I hope you found this article useful. Please contact me if you have any questions or suggestions.