How to Disable Hyper-V and install HAXM in Windows 8

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shivam picture shivam · Dec 4, 2014 · Viewed 9.4k times · Source

I am trying to install HAXM for android studio but it is showing error:

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Now my system has VT-x enabled:

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after this I tried to disable HYPER-V but when i try through cmd it shows a error:

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In windows feature I dont have a HYPER-V option:

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I have uninstalled my AVAST anti virus and I have tried to disable HYPER-V through powershell also but it is not working..

I am using windows 8.1 64-bit OS with intel i5

Please Help
Thanks in Advance!!

Answer

shivam picture shivam · Dec 5, 2014

After Doing lot of search on internet about this problem I Finally found out a solution which is working for me. It is a Hardware issue and I switched to windows 8 PRO version and then Everything worked just Fine.

Have a look at this question it also says the same:
I want to enable Hyper-V in Windows Features, but there is no Hyper-V option

Thanks!!

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