Author: Dinesh
Dinesh is the founder of Sysprobs and written more than 400 articles. Enthusiast in Microsoft and cloud technologies with more than 15 years of IT experience.
The ‘Unread Mail’ is one of the useful folders in Microsoft Outlook to view unread emails in one place from other mail folders in a particular Outlook account. Recently, one of the users complained that he couldn’t find it under ‘Favourites’ where it used to appear. If you encounter a similar scenario, here is how to add the Unread folder in Outlook 365 and other Office versions under Favourites. If you have multiple rules in Outlook for incoming emails, you will find new emails in every folder of your Outlook. If you receive a considerable number of emails daily, having…
Installing the Guest OS on iSCSI disks in VirtualBox is a good idea to keep the virtual machines in a centralized location. Also, it is one of the requirements to do live migration between VirtualBox hosts using teleportation. This post illustrates how to connect iSCSI disks in the Virtual Media manager and install OS on iSCSI disks. In this example, I have two physical computers with VirtualBox. I’m using FreeNAS as an iSCSI storage server in one of the host computers. The FreeNAS OS is installed as a virtual machine in one of the hosts, and iSCSI disks are created.…
If your Windows 10 desktop or laptop suddenly lost the network connection and showed limited connectivity, here are the simple steps to fix it. In this case, the Wi-Fi or Wired network can go offline and not be able to connect to the local network. It will impact the Internet and other network activities. The below steps show how to fix the limited Wi-Fi connectivity issue in Windows 10, which also applies to the wired network. If the Windows 10 network shows limited connectivity, the network adapter would not have an IP from the DHCP. If only one particular PC faces…
You should not worry much about seeing a green check mark on desktop icons on Windows 10/11 computers. Green tick marks indicate that the desktop files are backed up (or syncing) by the Microsoft OneDrive cloud. If you installed the OneDrive client and enabled Desktop folder backup, these green ticks will come on the icons. In another way, if your organization administrator implemented a policy to back up desktop files via the OneDrive application, it can happen without your intervention. Is Green Tick Virus? The green tick marks on the desktop icon are not a virus. It is a symbol…
This guide will teach us how to enable ping response in Windows 2019/2016 and 2012 R2 servers. Though the original post was written with the screenshots from Windows 2012 R2 server, the same steps apply to any recent Windows servers, including version 2022. Enabling ping will help you to monitor and troubleshoot network issues on your network. The ping request will work according to your domain environment policies and settings. If it works by default, we will also show you how to disable the ping in Windows servers. We have mentioned the Powershell commands if you want to work on…
We all like our apps and programs to work smoothly and efficiently. But sometimes, certain apps can start to hog resources and slow down our computers. If you’re finding that an app is making your PC run sluggishly, you can use the Task Manager to sleep the app and give your system a much-needed break. Unless you’re like me, you probably have several apps open anytime. And while that can help get work done, it can also be a little overwhelming. Let’s find out the best way to manage all those open apps and how to put apps to sleep…
You may face this problem if you have the older version of the VMware Workstation. I faced the same issue when I tried to update the existing VMware workstation. “The MSI failed” error appeared while uninstalling the VMware. Usually, when we update the VMware products to the latest version, it uninstalls the existing version and starts the upgrade process. Therefore, the uninstallation step should go smoothly to start the update. The MSI failed VMware uninstall error is common due to the issue with the Windows OS. It is nothing to do with the VMware file or installation process. Here is…
Commodore is a Linux-based OS which is no longer in development. It is a discontinued release, and the official website is no more active. But still, there are few individuals and fan-based communities that keep this OS live. As Linux and Open source enthusiasts, we tried to install it on the latest VirtualBox, and it worked. Here is the final version of the Commodore 1.5.1 Beta pre-installed VDI image file. About the Image Suppose you are a fan of Commodore OS and its emulators to get old computer experience. In that case, this image can help you run the OS…