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.
In the world of virtualization, VMDK and VDI are two important disk file formats. VMDK is used by VMware Workstation, while VDI is used by Oracle VirtualBox. In this article, we will show how to convert a VMDK file to VDI, and vice versa. This process will come in handy if you want to move a virtual machine from VMware Workstation to VirtualBox (or vice versa). Let’s get started! I have done the demonstration of converting a working virtual machine from VirtualBox to VMware by changing the file formats. There are some articles on the internet showing similar steps in…
For some strange reason, if you are getting the “Microsoft Excel cannot open or save any more documents because there is not enough available memory or disk space” error while opening Excel 2019 or 2016/2013 or Office 365 documents from a local disk or Outlook attachment, here are the working solutions fix it. The below steps will work on most of the Windows Operating Systems, including Windows 10/11, 8.1 or Windows 7 since this is related to Microsoft Excel only. Even though the PC has enough disk space and RAM, the error may not make sense related to the space…
EdTech is most commonly associated with online education. But in fact, the concept is much broader. It integrates all the ways technology is used, in the educational process – from interactive school boards to virtual reality simulators that simulate surgical procedures. But learning via the Internet is the most popular EdTech business area, firmly established in the market these days. Experts define the volume and growth rate of the market in different ways but all agree on one thing – the high estimation of its development prospects around the world. According to Statista, in 2019, the global online e-learning market…
Administrative shares are one of the built-in features of Windows OS that are mainly created for remote administration tasks. It allows administrators on your network to fully access the C, D or other local drives with admin credentials. Since it is already shared without the end-user intervention, let’s learn how to disable the default (admin share like c$) share in Windows 10/11 in this guide. We can prevent anyone on the local network from accessing our files and folders by using the hidden built-in share by stopping the admin share. Controlling the admin shares mainly depends on the network environment…
Mostly in the testing environment, you may need to set up a network between virtual machines that are running on VMware Workstation and Oracle VirtualBox. These virtual machines can be on the same host or different hosts on the physical network. Setting up a network among VMs in the same virtualization software such as VirtualBox is easy once we understand the available network type. How about settings up a network among VMs in different virtualization software from different physical computers? This guide shows how to set up network connectivity between VirtualBox and VMware virtual machines. Two Scenarios Considered here: 1)…
Fedora is another user-friendly Linux distribution anyone wants to experiment with, especially Windows OS users. It is available for workstations (Desktops) and servers. Here we list the pre-installed image of Fedora 64-bit, which you can download and use almost instantly on Oracle VirtualBox. The Fedora Project is sponsored by Red Hat and driven by the open-source community. Fedora has excellent Package management, security, and software tools to use as a primary Linux desktop OS at home or office. It comes with the familiar GNOME desktop, which is easy to use. Even you can install other desktop flavours and customize them.…
The fingerprint reader on your laptop might be the cause of problems when trying to type in passwords on your laptop. In this article, we will show you how to remove it so that typing passwords will work normally. One of the users in my work asked me to remove fingerprint login from his Windows 7 laptop that was HP brand. The biometric login was giving an issue to him while logging in. After several attempts, I found a way to remove it. Why do we need to remove this feature? Whenever the laptop resumes from sleep or hibernation mode, …
If Microsoft Teams says that ‘Your Microphone isn’t working’ and you are not able to use it properly, then this post will be helpful to fix the issue on Windows 11 or Windows 10. While starting the meeting or testing devices in MS Teams, you may get the above message. In this case, the Microphone will not work. Your test call will not be succeeded, and other participants will not hear you. There are several potential reasons for this issue; in recent times, I came across a similar situation on one of the laptops. I’m sharing all steps I followed…