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 ever wonder why is your printer offline most of the time on Windows 10 computer, there could be several reasons for that. In this guide, we will talk about the possible reasons why a printer can go offline and how to make an offline printer online in Windows 10 or 8.1. Usually, printers may go offline due to network or USB cable connectivity issue, paper jam, out of paper, any other printer hardware faults and driver corruption. Mostly it will come back to online automatically when these issues are solved, but sometimes we need to make a printer…
If you have a powerful host computer with multiple virtual machines at your home or office, you can simply share those VMs via the network with others. Instead of copying and migrating virtual machines to different computers or access them via the standard RDP protocol over the network, we can leverage the built-in VMware virtual machine share feature. This guide shows how to enable VMware workstation server and share virtual machines from the host computer which is Windows 10 in this case. Then other users can access them from remote workstations through the network. Virtual machine sharing in VMware workstation…
If you have been using Outlook for a while, you know that the application’s performance deteriorates as the file and data size increases. Hence, if you do not act accordingly, your Outlook will start crashing and lose files or email content while drafting. Fortunately, there are few tips and settings that can be applied to improve the Outlook application’s performance. These tips do not require any changes at the server level. Read till the end to know the 10 most effective tips to speed up your Outlook, it can be any version such as 2016, 2019 and even the latest…
It used to be easy to select different screen resolutions on earlier Windows Operating Systems. But, you may find it difficult and in a different place in Windows 10. Based on your requirements and monitor setup, you can set the custom screen resolutions as described in this guide. When it comes to custom screen resolutions in Windows 10, there are two questions need to be answered. Are we trying to find and set up the all possible screen resolutions with color bit and frequency Hertz supported by the display card? Are we trying to create entirely new screen resolutions which…
Whenever Oracle releases updates for their free virtualization software VirtualBox, we must update the extension pack to get additional features on the guest virtual machine. If you use some of the advanced features such as USB 3.0/2.0, VirtualBox RDP and PXE boot for Intel cards inside the virtual machines, then you must install or upgrade VirtualBox extension pack to the latest version. Earlier we published a guide about installing VB guest additions on Windows 10 and how to use VirtualBox to install and test Windows 2012/2016 R2 server OS at your home PC. Normally when you open a saved or…
It is easy to deploy your web app or a website to Azure app service by using multiple tools. The integration is easy and straightforward with Visual Studio or similar tools to upload your source codes to Azure app service. But, how about downloading the source code from Azure to your computer? As an Azure admin, recently, I need to download the source code of one of our web apps. This app was developed and implemented by a different vendor than the current partner who is maintaining the app. They want to see the source code and all repository related…
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…