Turn Windows features in the Windows Search field
at the bottom of your screen and thn select the Control Panel option
to "Turn Windows features on or off" when it is displayed.
In the Windows Features window, scroll down until you see Hyper-V. If you click on the plus sign next to its check box, you will see there are two subcomponents, Hyper-V Management Tools and Hyper-V Platform.
Hyper-V Management Tools - Includes GUI and command-line tools for managing
Hyper-V
Hyper-V Platform - Provides the services that you can use to create and
manage virtual machines and their resources
If you check the Hyper-V check box, the two subcomponents will both be turned on. Click on OK when you are done. You will then see "Searching for required files", which should be followed by "Applying changes" and then the completion window where you will be notified that "Windows needs to reboot your PC to finish installing the requested changes." Click on the Restart now button to immediately apply the changes or you can click on Don't restart to apply them at a later reboot of the system.
After rebooting the PC, you can start the Hyper-V Manager application
by typing Hyper-V Manager in the Windows Search field at the
bottom of the screen and clicking on the app when you see it returned
by the search function.
With the relevant system selected, e.g. Mu in the example below, you can click on "Quick Create..." in the right-hand pane of the window to create a new VM.
In the Create Virtual Macine window that you will then see, you will see some available operating system options, such as Ubuntu Linux.
Select one, such as Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, and then click on the Create Virtual Machine button.
A download of the operating system image will then start (Ubuntu 22.04 LTS is 2.31 GB). When the download completes, the VM should be created and you should see a "Virtual machine created successfully" window.
You can click on Edit Settings, if you wish to change the amount of memory allocated to the VM or make other configuration changes for the VM.
If you click on Connect, you will see a message that the virtual machine is turned off, but you can click on the Start button to turn it on and connect to it.
You will then see the System Configuratin screen for the VM.
You can then configure the VM operating system and you will be able to use the VM after completing the configuration steps.