Windows 10 home does not support windows application guard but ?

[HardikManocha]

So I use VMware hypervisor on a daily basis

right, everything used to work fine till I updated to 1903

I'm running Windows 10 Home 1903. Focus On Home

I saw the changelog and found out about that Windows Defender Application Guard

I was intrigued by the features it provides and I didn't saw that it was for win 10 pro and enterprise

but somehow that cmdlet to enable windows feature ran successfully

in my powershell



and I was forced to reboot after that



then I installed the store app and yes it showed that the feature is not available for home



that's it



I left it as it is,



yesterday I was trying to load my VMs in vmware and it prompted the control guard or DG is enabled

but those features don't even exist in win home



Get-CimInstance -ClassName Win32_DeviceGuard -Namespace root\Microsoft\Windows\DeviceGuard



the official doc says the class Win32_DeviceGuard is only available in win enterprise



and I received this result



AvailableSecurityProperties : {1, 3, 7} CodeIntegrityPolicyEnforcementStatus : 0 InstanceIdentifier : xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx RequiredSecurityProperties : {0} SecurityServicesConfigured : {0} SecurityServicesRunning : {0} UsermodeCodeIntegrityPolicyEnforcementStatus : 0 Version : 1.0 VirtualizationBasedSecurityStatus : 2 PSComputerName :



everything seems disabled except the VirtBasedSecStatus that is enabled and running (2)

I cleared the temp so I can;t go back to previous builds



YES



and my restore points were created after I enabled that features



I need my VMs



what should I do



at first I thought modifying the registry with a key that is null for VirtBasedSec but that didn't help | got into a BAD_SYSTEM_CONFIG BSOD

but then where is the Get-CimInstance extracting its data from

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