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      05-07-2009
I downloaded the untility provided by Intel as advertised on the Microsoft website for XP mode which says my processor does support virtualization. However I cannot find a way to enable it, it seems my OEM hasn't provided any option in the BIOS to do this, is there any other way?
 
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      05-07-2009
Which system do you have, and do you know the motherboard model? Hopefully there will be a BIOS update which you can use to enable it (seems strange it is disabled by default).
 
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It's an Acer Aspire 5685WLMi, not sure of the motherboard model. I have the latest BIOS available from Acer for this model so seems to be a bit of a brick wall.
 
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I've done some googling and it looks like others with Acer laptops have the same problem - a CPU that supports VT but no way to enable it

Hopefully they will provide a BIOS update in future where you can change this.
 
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