Windows (phone) emulator 8.1/10 stuck at loading the OS

Question

I\'ve been trying to get the emulator to work for days. Previously I tried the Windows Phone 8.1 Emulator as well as the Windows 8.1 Simulator and both were stuck at loading

Answer 1

I know the question is old, but none of the above answers worked for me so I write down my two cents:

• Go to Hyper-V console and remove all emulators
• Go to Devices Management, under network adapters tree node, delete all virtual switches
• Run an emulator from Visual Studio and see the magic happen

Answer 2

Try the following.

1. Open the Hyper-V Manager
2. In the Actions pane, click Hyper-V Settings
3. In the Server pane, select Physical GPUs
4. Uncheck, Use this GPU with RemoteFX
5. Click OK to save/close.

Attempt to start the Windows Phone emulator VM from within Hyper-V Manager or Visual Studio.

Answer 3

This worked for me:

1. Go to Windows Defender.
2. Add exclusion following path: "C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Local\Microsoft\XDE\YourEmulatorVersion"

YourEmulatorVersion - for example 10.0.14393.9

Answer 4

2 days, tried all that is posted here but nothing worked! Finally, since it is a lot easier nowadays to (re)install windows without loosing your files (3 hours including updates), I just resorted to that. Same thing happened, but then I saw the alert that I had not yet activated my VS to run in developer mode :) Did that, and voila, the emulator now works.

If this might be helpful: my problem started when I installed Android Studio and disabled Hyper-V from Android. Enabling it back for VS just couldn't get me to run it again. But I hear there is a way to run both Android & VS emulators using VS emulator for Android. I will try to see how that works later...

Answer 5

I believe you have two Windows Phone Internal Switch connections and one seems to be unplugged while the other is running. Disable the one that is unplugged and leave the latter. This worked for me after 2days of tinkering. God speed.