The screen went black. Then the BIOS splash screen of the VM appeared—except the VM didn’t have a BIOS. It had his motherboard’s BIOS. The real one, the ASUS splash screen of his actual desktop.
Alex looked at the unlabeled USB stick still plugged into his motherboard. The little LED on it was glowing steadily—not blinking, just on , like an eye watching him. windows 7 custom iso
Alex reached to hard-reset the VM. The mouse cursor drifted left on its own, clicked Start, and selected Shut Down . The screen went black
No calculator, no Notepad, no games. He typed winver . no build number. Just:
The About window showed no Service Pack, no build number. Just: