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.
Section break in Microsoft Word is handy if you want different formats on different pages on a single document. For example, suppose you like to have 2 columns paragraphs on specific pages only. In that case, the Section break feature is convenient to keep different formats like page numbers, header and footer on every page but in the same Office Word document. Here is the guide about how to remove section break in Word 2013/2016/2019 and Office 365. Also, we will show you how to view and insert it wherever you want in the document. You can use these same…
Do you want to know how to download macOS combo updates manually? This guide covers various macOS versions’ latest combo updates and new features. Usually, macOS will automatically update via the Apple App Store. However, in some instances, that may not happen. These cases include when you’re a Hackintosh user or an IT geek. Additionally, bugs in the current version may prevent automatic updates. Hence, here’s how to manually download the macOS combo updates from the official site. All of the updates mentioned here are the latest as of July 2022. Manually downloading the macOS updates separately and keeping those…
Sometimes having an MS DOS bootable USB disk/drive is handy to run legacy applications, Operating Systems and system updates which need the computer to boot from DOS USB or floppy disk. Unfortunately, Windows 10 and 11 do not allow creating a bootable USB drive while formatting. They support only floppy disks in this method. Here is a simple guide on creating a bootable DOS USB disk in Windows 10/11 using a third-party application. Several utilities are available online for this purpose, but ‘Rufus’ is our favourite. It can create a DOS bootable USB disk in simple GUI steps. Then we…
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…