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.
How to make Windows 7 faster on your old laptop or desktop? Here are the 30 easy and free steps you can follow to boost the performance of your computer. If your PC is slow while playing games, using high-end graphics/processor-hungry applications or multitasking, the below methods will be useful. I combined these methods from my experience and the experiments, which worked in improving Windows 7 and Windows 10 computer performance in my organisation. Any normal home/business user can do the following steps without other third-party or paid software and technical skills. The network is a major factor in deciding…
What is the Microsoft Windows Search Filter Host service on Windows 10/11 or 8.1? It is an executable file developed by Microsoft for the Windows operating system that helps in windows search functions. It is one of the many services activated during the Windows search function. Whenever a user searches for an item in his computer system with Windows, searchfilterhost.exe builds the index of all the storage drives to speed up the process and quick display of search results. Sometimes this service may take higher or (100%) CPU usage on your desktop or laptop computer and prevent your other programs…
I recently got an error saying failed to change state with error code 32788 in Hyper-V while attempting to power on a particular virtual machine. This could be one of the unexpected issues you may face while managing the Hyper-V environment for a long time. There are several reasons for this problem, and let’s analyze each. Below is the screenshot of the error related to this case, ‘the operation failed with error code 32788.’ It appeared when I tried to power on a virtual machine. Meanwhile, other virtual machines on the same Hyper-V host work fine. Reasons For Error Code…
Microsoft retired the final Internet Explorer 11, which is out of official support. Microsoft Edge is recommended web browser that has IE compatibility to view legacy websites. Though the following guide may not be suitable for recent Windows 10 and 11 Operating Systems, you could find it useful if you still use the earlier Windows 10 versions. Internet Explorer 11 comes with Windows 10 by default. But Microsoft pinned their Edge browser on the taskbar. Some computer users may think it’s the usual internet explorer and find it completely different. Also, for some reason, when you do a fresh Windows…
During the early days of PCs, the displays were CRT monitors; if a certain image were displayed for long periods, that image would burn on the screen and damage the monitor. So screensavers were designed to avoid this. These days, people tend to turn off the screens of their computers, but some people still want to customize their computers to show interesting animations when they have taken a break from using their computers. If you are a Mac user, the following are some of the best free Mac screensavers. 10 Websites to Download the Best Free Mac Screensavers 1. NES…
As part of the macOS on Windows series, we provide the download link of the macOS 13 Venture VMware pre-installed VMDK image in this guide. We installed the public beta version of macOS 13 (as of Aug 2022), updated the software on the VMware workstation 16 with Windows 11 host and uploaded the image for you. It is difficult to download the beta or the final version of macOS from Apple’s official site in DMG format and install it on VMware or VirtualBox with Windows Operating Systems. Many steps are involved in installing a vanilla version of macOS on a…
Usually, most of the users want to change the date format in Windows 10 or Windows 11 to match their regional or specific applications’ requirements. If you are using a different date format in your country, then definitely this post will be helpful to modify it as you want. This post will show you how to change the date format in Windows 10/11 to dd-mm-yyyy or mm/dd/yyyy. Changing the date format from mm-dd-yyyy to dd-mm-yyyy is not straightforward since this format is not included in the system. By default, Windows 10/11 comes with MM-dd-yyyy format. If you are not using…
Creating the image of an existing virtual machine from Oracle VirtualBox as an appliance can help you move the VM from one host to another or Oracle Cloud or even upload it to the Internet, which can be downloaded and imported by others easily. This post explains how to export a VirtualBox image of existing machine that can be shared and uploaded. Every virtual machine has its configuration, virtual disk, snapshot, log, and other temporary files. The location of these files can be anywhere on a computer as long as they are accessible. Copying these files manually and editing the configuration…