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> The nefarious part is that Windows enables Hyper-V even if you don't actually use Hyper-V VMs and never will.

It does not actually enable it by default but there are many settings or apps that can cause it to become enabled. Virtualization-based-security, WSL, container tools, etc. Providing a hypervisor and related functionality is part of what a modern OS kernel should do! It's not nefarious!




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