

VirtualBox was commonly described as being one of the more user-friendly VM managers available. If, as people said, I could also run the resulting VM in Linux, then I would have that additional level of protection against problems in Windows 10. The idea was that I could run that software on Windows 7, in the VM guest system, even if it wouldn’t run in the Win10 host. The situation provoking this effort was that recent Windows 10 updates apparently made Windows 10 unable to run certain software that I used frequently. This post details the steps I took to create and configure a VirtualBox VM running Windows 7 on a Windows 10 host system. Customized Start Menu: Using Programs without Installation

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Another post may eventually provide a more detailed short version.
