WSA Stopped Working

Issues: WSA Stopped Working!

You may encounter this problem. WSA has been working fine for you, but all of a sudden, it breaks/ stops working. You are distraught. What do you do, when WSA beloved had been borked.

Solution:

1. Go to "Turn Windows features on and off" and if any of these features below are enabled, DISABLE THEM.

• Hyper-V
• Virtual Machine Platform
• Windows Hypervisor Platform
• Windows Subsystem for Linux

2. Restart your PC

3. Boot into your BIOS, and DISABLE Virtualization.

• Click here for a guide for Windows 11
• Click here for a guide for Windows 10

4. Ensure that you have Control Flow Guard enabled in Windows Security > Apps & browser control > Exploit protection. This is a known issue that can prevent WSA from starting

5. In registry editor (regedit), go to “\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\FsDepends"

   Change the value of “Start” from “3” to “0”

Note You can change it back to 3, if it makes no difference

6. Then in CMD (Run as Adminstrator), paste:

bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype auto

7. ENABLE the features that you disabled in Step 1 and restart a second time.

8. Boot into your BIOS, and ENABLE Virtualization.

• Click here for a guide for Windows 11
• Click here for a guide for Windows 10

9. Restart the Computer

10. Try re-running WSA by running Run.bat or via the Windows Subsystem for Android Settings app

Hope this works for you!