Instructions for disabling Hyper-V (VBS)

1. Right-click the Start button, select Run, type gpedit.msc, and press Enter.
2. In the Local Group Policy Editor, navigate to Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > System > Device Guard. Double-click Turn on Virtualization-Based Security in the right panel.
3. Set the setting to Disabled and apply the settings.
4. Restart your PC.

If you have a Home edition of Windows installed on your computer, you can use the Registry Editor:

1. Press Win + R on your keyboard, type regedit, and press Enter.
2. Navigate to the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\DeviceGuard.
3. Right-click in an empty area of ​​the right pane of the Registry Editor and create a new DWORD value named EnableVirtualizationBasedSecurity and set its value to 0.
4. If such a value exists, double-click it and change its value to 0.
5. Restart your computer.

Additional Methods for Disabling Virtualization Based Security

If the previous solution doesn't help, and a program prompts you to disable VBS upon startup, you can use additional approaches. Please note that using these will also disable other built-in virtualization features in Windows 11 and Windows 10 (based on Hyper-V):

• Run a command prompt as administrator, type bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype off , and press Enter. Then, restart your computer.
• Open Programs and Features in Control Panel or by pressing Win+R - appwiz.cpl, click "Turn Windows features on or off" on the left, disable "Microsoft Defender Application Guard," "Hyper-V," and "Virtual Machine Platform," click "OK," and restart your computer after removing the features.