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.
“Your computer restarted because of a problem. Press a key or wait a few seconds to continue starting up” is a common error in macOS. If you get this error on Mac computers like MacBook Pro, MacBook Air and iMac, several solutions are available on the internet to solve it. In this guide, we will look for the potential reasons and solutions to fix this problem for macOS virtual machines in VMware. We published several guides to install macOS (like Big Sur) in the VMware workstation on Windows 10/11 computers. You can apply the below solutions for these virtual machines.…
If you are using Office 365 or the latest version of Microsoft Office products, you might have noticed the AutoSave feature. The document keeps saving automatically in the background. This guide will show you how to permanently turn off Autosave in Excel 365. The idea of auto-saving is to protect your document from sudden power interruption of the computer, PC crash or not manually saving the file after doing the important changes. But sometimes, you may not need this feature to save your documents automatically with your temporary/unintentional changes. The below steps to disable the Autosave feature is applicable for…
This guide explains how to do VirtualBox P2V in Windows host OS. By this method, you can convert a physical computer which could be local or on the network (remote computer) to a virtual environment. The method is not straightforward since there are no tools available for P2V (Physical to Virtual) in VirtualBox. We can use some of the free tools to convert most of the Windows Operating Systems starting from Windows 7 to 10/11 and Server versions of Windows 2008 to the latest Windows 2019/2022 server. Methods to Do VirtualBox P2V on Windows 11/10 Here are the solid working…
This guide shows how to export or convert VMware Workstation virtual machine to an ESXi server using the vCenter converter. Sometimes you need to move/migrate a pre-configured server OS virtual machine to VMware vSphere (ESXi) to save time by avoiding installation and configurations. We can use any virtual machine with configuration file VMX and disk files here. I have a working ESXi server and Windows 2003 enterprise OS (already configured as Domain controller) as a virtual machine in the VMware workstation. Though this setup was done in 2010, it is applicable in recent times also. Here is the working OS. Steps…
The built-in Windows OS backup utility is a reliable tool without installing any third-party applications. It can backup the entire computer or selected items. Sometimes it becomes handy to restore the entire system from a crash or while moving to a different hardware/hard disk (like SSD). In this guide, let me show you how to restore a single file or folder from the full system image backup without restoring the entire disk. When you don’t have any sources to recover a file/folder, the recent Windows 11/10 full system image backup can be used to recover the individual files and folder.…
It is always a best practice to backup your Windows 11 desktop or laptop computer to an external hard drive or any network share. It can protect your computer from system crashes or virus attacks resulting in permanent data loss. Having the backup on the same internal hard drive may not effectively fight against full system crash/compromise. In this guide, let us learn how to back up your Windows 11 computer to an external hard drive. It can be connected to a standard USB, USB-3/USB-C or any other port. Basically, the current Windows 11 Operating System should detect the hard…
If you are testing or migrating virtual machines from VMware to the Hyper-v virtualization platform, then this post will be helpful to convert VMDK files to VHD. Hyper-V can’t read the VMDK file which belongs to VMware products such as VMware workstation, VM player and their hypervisor server VMware ESXi. I will be showing two methods to convert VMDK to VHD. There could be many occasions why you need this conversion, but here are a few possible reasons. You are migrating your existing virtual machines from VMware to Hyper-V Migrating existing on-premise VMware virtual machines to Azure Microsoft cloud platform…
Microsoft Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection is part of an ongoing cybersecurity initiative to protect business networks and infrastructure and protect customers from malware and insecure messaging connections. Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) enables you to protect your organization from malicious attacks and is included in subscriptions such as Office 365 Enterprise E5, Office 365 Education A5, and Microsoft 365 Business. Numerous ideas for suspicious content are invented by people with malicious intent and malicious activity, and the need for Microsoft Defender for Office 365 is of utmost importance, especially after multiple attacks occurred and negatively disturbed the Microsoft…