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Installing then Running VMware or VirtualBox causes my Windows 7 PC to not boot up after shutting down?

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Mar 15, 20261040 views
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At work I use a Windows 7 PC but I am a programmer and face problems in Windows while working on some types of development, so I want to have a virtual Ubuntu Linux machine that I can use when I encounter those problems. I have tried VirtualBox and VMware and am able to install the latest Ubuntu an…

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Fix for: Installing then Running VMware or VirtualBox causes my Windows 7 PC to not boot up after shutting down?

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If VT is enabled in your BIOS (it probably is), then an update to the BIOS may help to resolve this problem for you -- one of the jobs of the BIOS is to update microcode in the CPU before boot. The microcode updates to the CPU are lost when the powe…

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