You may encounter this problem. WSA has been working fine for you, but all of a sudden, it breaks/ stops working. You are distraught. What do you do, when WSA beloved had been borked.
- Go to "Turn Windows features on and off" and if any of these features below are enabled, DISABLE THEM.
- Hyper-V
- Virtual Machine Platform
- Windows Hypervisor Platform
- Windows Subsystem for Linux
- Restart your PC
- Boot into your BIOS, and DISABLE Virtualization.
- Ensure that you have Control Flow Guard enabled in Windows Security > Apps & browser control > Exploit protection. This is a known issue that can prevent WSA from starting
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In registry editor (regedit), go to “\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\FsDepends"
Change the value of “Start” from “3” to “0”
Note
You can change it back to 3, if it makes no difference
- Then in CMD (Run as Adminstrator), paste:
bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype auto
- ENABLE the features that you disabled in
Step 1and restart a second time.
- Boot into your BIOS, and ENABLE Virtualization.
- Restart the Computer
- Try re-running WSA by running
Run.bator via the Windows Subsystem for Android Settings app
Hope this works for you!