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The original poster is seeking help to restore Hyper-V to its previous state after shutting down virtual machines and cleaning up their system, which resulted in the virtual machines no longer appearing in Hyper-V Manager. They believe the VM data still exists on their drive and want to regain access. A responder assures them that as long as the virtual machines haven't been deleted, they can be re-added to Hyper-V. The overall tone is procedural and focused on troubleshooting to restore Hyper-V functionality.

Xarzu

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How do I get my Hyper-V set up back?

I set up a couple of vitrual machines using Hyper-V. There seemed to be some memory and resource issues. So I closed down the virtual machines and Hyper-V and then I ran malwarebytes, ccleaner, and avg to clean up my system. I uninstalled a few programs that I determined I did not need. Then I also disabled some programs that run on start up.

There must have been something, within the scope of all of this, that something was done to make Hyper-V behave differently. And this is why I am posting this. The data in which the virtual machines ran on must still exist on my hard drive and I should be able to load it again.

At this time, when I type to launch hyper-v, I am given the opportunity to launch "Hyper-V Manager". The program loads with no virtual machines listen. It's title bar says "Console1 - [Console Root]" amd "Console Root is listed as a folder. How do I set things back to the way they were? What are your thoughts? Please help.
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Neemobeer

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As long as the VMs have not been deleted you can just re add them.
 

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