Author: Dinesh

Giving a meaningful name for your Android TV is the ideal way to manage it with the Google Home Mini or Google Nest devices. Especially when you have multiple TVs in different rooms (locations) which controlled by a single smart home device or having a common centralized Wi-Fi that shared with others, you must change the TV name for better identification. Recently I encountered a similar issue while having the common Wi-Fi at my residential building. Since Android and other smart TVs are connected to the same wireless network, I got the confusion about recognizing my TV correctly. Here are…

What motherboard do I have? if you have this question in your mind and you want to check it without opening the case of the desktop or laptop, then this guide would be helpful. The motherboard is the main part of the computer on which all the other components are connected. If you have forgotten which motherboard you installed on your computer or you are just curious about how to check the model number, it is very easy to do so in Windows Operating System. You may want to know the model to note down and keep it if you…

Are you thinking to have Solaris Operating System on your Windows computer? Here is an easy solution. Oracle provides their Solaris OS x86 version as the pre-installed image for VirtualBox platform, we can utilize it and get a working latest Solaris 11.4 on a normal computer either a desktop or laptop. We have listed several pre-installed Linux and Windows images here. Alternatively, you can download the ISO file of the Solaris OS and perform the full installation if you like to learn every installation steps. But for a quick setup, we will download the pre-installed template which is available at…

What is taskhost.exe on Windows 10 or other Windows Operating Systems? Taskhost.exe is a Microsoft Windows OS process also known as Host protocol. The file is located in C:\windows\system32 folder. It is a Microsoft signed Windows system file which is a hidden file that means you will be unable to see it in the mentioned folder but the process is visible in Task Manager. This process can run multiple times, and some look at it with suspicion. But the fact is that it is not a virus, but it can get corrupted. When infected it end up hogging resources like…

Here we will show the way to fix the error ‘Agent Not Reachable’ in DPM which prevents backing up guest virtual machines on Windows  Server Hyper-V. This is applicable to physical servers and client computers too. The backup of a Windows server/computer will fail when the DPM server loses the connectivity and access to take necessary actions on the protected computer. There are a few things you need to check when you get this error in Data Protection Manager (DPM), but this post specifically solves the problem which is related to local user authentication that prevents backup in a different…

Is your iPad charging slowly? Here are the 5 simple and best solutions to charge your iPad quickly in a short time. The iPad is Apple’s most celebrated and well-received product, but that does not mean it won’t have any problems. Some people may be facing slow charging on their iPads. It may be due to a faulty battery or faulty chargers you are using. This can become a big problem if you want to use your iPad and your battery is not fully charged to use it for longer periods. To solve your problem, follow the super simple things…

If you are still using an older version of Mac OS X on Intel or AMD Computers by any of the desktop virtualization software like VMware or VirtualBox, this guide will be helpful to increase the screen resolution size of Snow Leopard. Adjusting screen size including widescreen on VMware is easy since VMware tools (with VGA driver) are available, but setting up screen resolution in VirtualBox is slightly different for each installation method. VMware users Most of the latest macOS versions can work without any issues on VMware with multiple screen resolutions. If you are still using the older version…

Note: I have added the latest Windows server versions in the title, but the below demonstration had been done with Windows 2008 R2 server version in VMware workstation. The key point is, the below steps are applicable for Windows 2012/2016 and even the latest Windows 2019 server cluster setup. Also, if you are a VirtualBox or Hyper-V on Windows 10 user, you can follow the same steps. Technically, you do not need many settings on the virtualization software to make this setup work. Mainly the VMs you are creating for this purpose should communicate among them to make the failover…