HYPER-V

Method 1: Disable in Windows 10 & 11 in Control Panel

1. Click Start, type Control Panel, and open it. Press Win+R. In the Run field, type appwiz.cpl and press Enter.

2. In the Control Panel window, click Turn Windows features on or off.

3. In the Windows Features window that opens, deselect the Hyper-V checkbox. Make sure that checkboxes in Hyper-V subfolders are deselected.

1. Locate and deselect Virtual Machine Platform and Windows Hypervisor Platform.

2. Hit OK to save settings and start the Hyper-V uninstallation process.

3. Click Restart now to restart your computer to finish the process and uninstall Hyper-V.

Method 2: via Command Prompt

You can uninstall Hyper-V in the command line interface (CLI) just as with the previous method in the graphical user interface (GUI). This workflow works in both Windows 10 and Windows 11.

Check the Hyper-V installation status in the command line before you start to uninstall Hyper-V and to make sure that this hypervisor has been removed from your Windows system after you have uninstalled Hyper-V.

1. Open the command line (CMD) as administrator. Open the Windows Start menu, type cmd, right-click the cmd entry, and click Run as administrator.

2. Run systeminfo to check whether Hyper-V is installed.

   • If Hyper-V is not installed, in the Hyper-V requirements section, you see the names of the technologies required to install Hyper-V and the status of their availability on the machine.

   • If Hyper-V is installed, you should see the following message in the Hyper-V Requirements line: A hypervisor has been detected. Features required for Hyper-V will not be displayed.

     
   • As an alternative, you can run msinfo32.exe to check whether Hyper-V is uninstalled in the GUI. The needed information is located in the System Summary section at the bottom of the item list.

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     Now, once you have verified that Hyper-V is installed, you can uninstall Hyper-V in Windows 10 by using the command line.

3. Open PowerShell with administrative privileges (type PowerShell in the Start menu, right-click PowerShell, and click Run as administrator just as you do to run CMD).

4. Run the following command to remove the Hyper-V feature from Windows 10:

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

   
5. Do you want to restart the computer to complete this operation now?

   Type Y and hit Enter.

6. Restart is required after executing this command. You can type N (No) and restart Windows manually.

Method 3: via DISM

DISM (Deployment Image Servicing and Management) is a tool for working with Windows images (.wim files) and installing/uninstalling Windows drivers, features, and packages.

Open PowerShell with administrative privileges, and run this command to disable Hyper-V:

DISM /Online /Disable-Feature:Microsoft-Hyper-V

You may need to disable Secure Boot in UEFI/BIOS settings of a computer to finish the uninstallation process and uninstall Hyper-V. The sequence to disable Secure Boot depends on your hardware vendor and differs for different motherboard vendors and models.