I had a Windows update applied today. When my laptop rebooted, VirtualBox no longer works. As soon as you try and run the program, I get an error message. "Windows cannot access the specified device, path or file."
I am a local administrator. I have version 7.0.6 installed. I can browse to the folder. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the software. If I look at the permissions to the executable, it says I have full control. Nothing seems to fix it. Any ideas?
VirtualBox not working after Windows update
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Re: VirtualBox not working after Windows update
This may likely be something for Microsoft to help on. But first try another reinstall of Virtualbox, per this procedure:
- Uninstall Virtualbox and reboot.
- Go to "C:\Windows\System32\drivers", look for any files called 'Vbox*.sys' (there could be up to 5) and delete them.
- Reboot again.
- If you have any 3rd-party security or anti-malware software, disable the living daylights out of it for a moment.
- Reinstall Virtualbox using right-click-Run-As-Administrator.