@swader, @jeffreylees - thank you for your suggestions. I will try these out when I get some time this afternoon.
I had given up and gone back to using my setup in xampp, figuring that if my machine had virtualization disabled and didn’t show the option to enable it, then I was out of luck until I got a different laptop.
I tried finding the users manual for my laptop (an MSI gaming laptop), but they want you to create an account and sign your life away first so I bailed.