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Sandi1987
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Contributor

Emulator runs slow

I have Windows 10 and VMware Workstation runs very slow. It works normally few months ago. Windows XP Installation is very slow.

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bluefirestorm
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Are you by any chance running AVG or Avast antivirus on the Windows 10 host?

There has been a spate of slow VMs few months ago and a lot of commonality was AVG or Avast.

Avast and AVG seem to have some hardware virtualization scan that seems to be causing the problem.

If you are using either have a look at this thread, there are steps to disable the hardware virtualization feature of Avast and AVG.

XP VM suddenly slow, Win 7 fine

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