I just got an awesome new computer made by an awesome dude but was slightly 'disappointed'* to find that none of the previous XP/Win7 programs will work in this thing called Windows 10. I tried using compatibility mode but only one of the top needed five was successful in working again. Also can't uninstall Cortana spyware or X-box or other garbage turned on by default. Ugh. Microsoft still appears to be the least-worst of the big three. For now.
(*'disappointed' as in 'everything is f'kng gone' 'wtf' version of 'disappointed'. Thousands of dollars in software and valuable data. Poof. Up in the air. Gone in a second.)
So I looked into running a virtual machine with XP.
1). There is AMD-V but this one has an Intel chip.
2). There is also Oracle Virtualbox but I wanted to stick with Microsoft because naturally things by the same manufacturer are going to work better together (am i right here fellows?)
3). I went with Hyper-V which is supposed to be built into Windows 10.
It needs WinPro version, 64bit, a compatible chip, and other things to work right.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/hyper-v-on-windows/quick-start/enable-hyper-v
I first went into cntrl panel/programs/turn window features on-off/Hyper-V and turned Hyper-V settings on.
A couple of the boxes were greyed out however and a firmware error issue message was returned.
(Also in system information one of the four hyper-v lines had a 'no' value.)
At first I could not get into BIOS using the 'del' key because the keyboard was loading later than Windows.
I unplugged it from the IOGear splitter and plugged it into the top left USB at the back of the motherboard. Success
Turn on BIOS virtualization and reboot. .
Hyper-V virtual machine was installed!! Yeah!