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  <title>System Settings</title>
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    <p>The <b outputclass="bold">System</b> category groups various settings that are related to the basic hardware that is presented to the virtual machine.</p>
    <note>
      <p>As the activation mechanism of Windows is sensitive to hardware changes, if you are changing hardware settings for a Windows guest, some of these changes may trigger a request for another activation with Microsoft.</p>
    </note>
    <p>The following tabs are available.</p>
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