On Windows 10, when a new VM is created, it has "Use automatic checkpoints" in Settings/Checkpoints turned on by default. If I recall correctly, this was a change that the Windows team made some months ago on Windows 10 Insider builds (it doesn't happen on Server).
Is there a way in the registry or through PowerShell or somewhere else to turn that off so it doesn't happen to my new VM's on Windows 10?
From a helpful fellow commenting at http://web.archive.org/web/20170509161254/https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/virtualization/2017/04/20/making-it-easier-to-revert/:
Set-VM -Name MyVM -AutomaticCheckpointsEnabled $false
will tell Hyper-V on Windows 10 not to use automatic checkpoints for that virtual machine only. I'm still not aware of a way to tell the Windows 10 Hyper-V host not to set that option on new VM's, but at least we have a good workaround.
Note: As of August 2017, automatic checkpoints are used only on Windows 10 and not on Windows Server 2016, so this parameter doesn't exist on Windows Server 2016.
