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.
If you are a regular Windows 10/11 user, you may have several reasons to find a computer’s uptime. This information could be helpful for troubleshooting purposes for system administrators and home users. Let’s say you need to know how long a particular Windows 11 desktop or laptop computer has been powered on without restart; then, you can use the below methods to find out the Windows 11 uptime. Remember, these similar steps are handy for server administrators to determine the time duration of a physical or virtual server being powered on or unintentionally rebooted due to power or hardware failure.…
Every email we send and receive has metadata with the information about the particular email. The metadata provides routing and other useful details about the email. It is called an ‘email header’ in most email programs. Every email application and the client has different ways to view the email header information. Let’s look at how to find the IP address of an email sender in Outlook and do some basic mail tracing. Once you received an email, you would know the sender’s name and domain (For example, gmail.com or yahoo.com….etc) easily. But it is not straightforward to know the IP…
Accessing the Mac hard disks from the desktop is a better way to browse the folders/files quickly. Since we don’t have the option to show the My Computer icon on the Mac desktop, showing the Macintosh HD could help a lot. If you are switching from Windows to Mac or using both parallelly, you will miss the hard disk icon on the desktop very badly. Let’s see how to show the Macintosh HD on desktop and the finder sidebar in this guide. From the Desktop, click on Finder and Preferences/Settings -> Select ‘Hard disks’ under ‘Show these items on the…
VirtualBox has a shared folder feature that allows accessing the host computer’s physical hard drive partition and folders from the virtual machine. Once the VirtualBox guest additions are correctly installed, this can be enabled easily by doing additional steps. But in some cases, if you want to access/mount a physical drive partition to a virtual machine’s settings, you need to follow the steps to accomplish it. This step by steps method explains how to access the physical disk in VirtualBox. Unfortunately, we can’t do it as quickly as in the VMware workstation. Few commands and hard drive mapping are involved…
You’re absorbed in your Android phone. Checking your emails, reading a pdf, or watching some videos. All of a sudden, there is a notification saying “Speech Services by Google waiting for network Connection”. Annoying. And it’s not even going away. You took some measures but in vain. It’s coming back again to nag you. Even more annoying, we know. But not for long. Because you’re about to discover the possible fixes so you can bid farewell to this bug(shoo you bug!). For demonstration purposes, we’re going to use a Samsung phone. But that won’t be a problem since you’re on…
Sometimes you will search and find an email in Outlook but do not know the folder where it is stored. Especially if you are a person who has plenty of Outlook rules and subfolders, you will face this issue frequently. In this post, let me show you how to find what folder an email is in Outlook 2016/2019/Office 365 and other older Office versions. Unfortunately, it is not straightforward in the standard view of Outlook. It can be in the Inbox, Sent Items or Subfolders; you need to customize the column view to find out the folder location of an…
Bitlocker is a Windows feature that encrypts your hard drive to protect your data from unauthorized access. If you lose your Bitlocker key, it can be challenging to recover the data on your hard drive. In this blog post, we will discuss some tips that can help you recover your Bitlocker key. We will also discuss how to backup your Bitlocker key in case you lose it in the future. Top Tips to Recover Bitlocker Key on Windows 11/10 As someone that has lost their Bitlocker key, it can be frustrating, and you may feel helpless. However, there are some…
Ubuntu desktop is one of the famous Linux versions for personal and professional use. It is a free and open-source Linux OS based on Debian. We have installed the latest version of Ubuntu on VirtualBox and updated software/patches in this image. The below pre-installed image can be easily attached to the VirtualBox on any 64-bit-based PC. You should have a Ubuntu VM up and running in 5 minutes with the pre-installed image. If you need to learn about OpenStack, then Ubuntu is the correct distribution since it is widely used in cloud computing. Ubuntu includes plenty of ready-to-use software inside. If…