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How to make Windows 10 full screen on VirtualBox

  1. Switch off Windows 10
  2. Make a note of your Operation System current resolution. Let’s say 1900×1080
  3. Go to the VirtualBox installation folder open command prompt in the folder. Usually in C:Program FilesOracleVirtualBox or Open up a command Prompt and navigate to folder where VBoxManage.exe is..
  4. Type this command into the command prompt: VBoxManage.exe setextradata “VM-Name” CustomVideoMode1 1920x1080x32
  5. Open up the Windows 10 and from resolution center change the resolution to your new resolution.

One reply on “How to make Windows 10 full screen on VirtualBox”

Problem: VirtualBox running on Windows 10 with a Windows 10 guest O/S doesn’t display the full screen.

I had this trouble and solved it using the “download guest additions” method.

Solution:
While running Virtual Box with Windows 10 in it:

1) Open the Virtual Box Help, About (fig 01)

2) Get the version of Virtual Box (fig 02)

3) Go to the http://download.virtualbox.com/virtualbox resource folder
4) Click on your version (in my case, 4.3.30) (fig 03)
5) Click and download the VBoxGuestAdditions_4.3.30.iso file (fig 04)
6) It will open exposing the directory inside the ISO.
7) Run the main installer: VBoxWindowsAdditions.exe
8) As it is installing it will change your resolution to the max for your host machine.

@PaulWolf

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