HAXM installation fails claiming VT-X not present

Question

I\'m having difficulties trying to install HAXM for my emulator in Android Studio. I have an hp2000 notebook; I updated Windows 8.1 to Windows 8.1 Pro to activate the Hyper-V fe

Answer 1

I was having a similar problem. It worked out that I hadn't got the HAXM-Installer installed on my PC.

To do this go to: Tools -> Android -> SDK Manager -> SDK Tools (Tab) -> Check the Intel x86 Emulator Accelerator (HAXM installer) option then click apply (As shown in the image below).

Android SDK Manager (Image)