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→A Quick Tour of the Hyper-V Manager
Finally, the right hand panel provides a list of actions that may be performed. The top section contains actions specific to the Hyper-V server. The area below these actions displays context sensitive actions depending on the currently selected item. For example, if a virtual machine is selected, the actions offered will be related to that virtual machine. Similarly, with a snapshot selected, relevant actions for that snapshot will be displayed instead.
In addition to the panels outlined above, many of the same actions amy be accessed from the menu bar running across the top edge of the Hyper-V Manager window.
== Customizing Hyper-V Manager ==
A certain level of customization of the Hyper-V Manager user interface is possible. In the first instance, the sizes of the various panel may be changed by moving the mouse pointer to the border of a panel. When in the correct location the point will change to a double headed arrow, at which point the border may be clicked and dragged to perform the resize.
The specific panels which are displayed may also be configured by selecting ''View'' from the ''Actions'' panel and clicking on ''Customize...''. The resulting window provides a range of check boxes which are used to control whether specific user interface elements are displayed or not:
[[Image:hyper-V_manager_customization.jpg|Customizing the appearance of the Hyper-V Manager interface]]
== Hyper-V Configuration Settings ==
The Hyper-V Manager provides the ability to make changes to a number of configuration settings relating to the overall Hyper-V system (as opposed to a specific virtual machine). These settings are accessed, not surprisingly, by clicking on the ''Hyper-V Settings...'' link in the right hand ''Actions'' panel. the configuration options and corresponding descriptions are outlined in the following table:
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Virtual Hard Disks
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Configures the location of the virtual hard disks used by the virtual machines. This can be a folder on a local disk drive or a remote network based storage location.
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Virtual Machines
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Configures the default location of the virtual machine configuration files. This can be a folder on a local disk drive or a remote network based storage location. This default location may be overridden on a per virtual machine basis during virtual machine creation.
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Keyboard
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Most operating systems have keyboard control sequences which have special meaning when pressed. The issue when running virtual machines on a system is that it a decision needs to be made about whether the key sequence should be addressed by the host, or passed to the guest operating system running in
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