Tuesday, July 31, 2018

How to get your machine serial number without looking on the bottom of your device

Open Command Prompt by pressing the Windows key on your keyboard and tapping the letter X. Then select Command Prompt (Admin). Type the command: WMIC BIOS GET SERIALNUMBER, then press enter. If your serial number is coded into your bios it will appear here on the screen.

Virtual Machine gives error opening in Windows 10

Problem:

When opening a Virtual Machine I get the following error:

Raw-mode is unavailable courtesy of Hyper-V. (VERR_SUPDRV_NO_RAW_MODE_HYPER_V_ROOT).

Solution:

Open a command prompt and put in:

bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype off

Open powershell and put in:

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