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.
Since the VirtualBox is more flexible than the VMware workstation, we can easily open and attach the VMDK file to the VirtualBox virtual machine. By doing this, we can easily access the content of the VMDK file or boot the Operating Systems from it by VirtualBox. Here are the simple steps to open and attach the VMDK file in VirtualBox. We published a guide earlier about opening and accessing the contents of a VMDK in Windows 10/11 Operating Systems. That method requires a VMware workstation program on the computer. If you copied or moved a VMDK file from a different…
Recent Documents are not included in the Windows 7 start menu. You will not find it where it used to be available on earlier Windows Operating Systems. In this guide, you will learn how to check recently opened files in Windows 7 and the location of recent documents/files. Adding them to the start menu will help you to access them quickly and frequently. Accessing recent files is very useful to view the recently opened files from a local computer or network location. Sometimes you would have opened and worked with a file but forgot the exact location of it later. By…
Setting up and allowing Internet access via a proxy server to guest virtual machines in the VMware Workstation (or Player) is simple with the following steps. This guide explains how to share the host’s Internet connection which is connected via a Proxy server to the guest virtual machine inside the VMware Workstation. It can work on any host Operating system and VMware workstation as long as you have an Internet proxy server on your physical network. Obviously, you must know the IP address of your physical proxy server on the network. When the host computer is connected to a physical…
Have you ever experienced annoying errors while working on Excel? Anything like non-responding worksheets or not responding in the middle of an important task? If yes, then this write-up is just for you. We have listed possible solutions for Microsoft Excel not responding issue on Windows Operating Systems. Excel is used by millions of people across the globe at home and in offices for various data management, and financial calculations related tasks. This application from Microsoft is no exception when it comes to unexpected problems or errors. From Operating System updates and new add-ins to malware, there are many reasons that…
Having multiple virtual desktops is one of the cool ways to organize your computer while working. If you are Linux or Mac OS user, you must be knowing the built-in feature of virtual desktops. Unfortunately, Windows 7 or Windows 8/8.1 do not have this feature. Anyhow, we can get it easily by using the free Microsoft tool and some other tools. This small guide shows how to get multiple virtual desktops in Windows 7/8.1. If you are using Windows 10, the virtual desktop is already part of Windows feature. You can read this guide about enabling virtual desktops and managing…
Android lovers can use virtualization software like VirtualBox, VMware and other similar software to run Android OS on desktop or laptop PC. This guide shows the step by steps to install Android 5.1 Lollipop on Windows 10 PC by using Oracle VirtualBox. Why to install it on a PC? it is a good question. It is most suitable for testing purpose and developers. Instead of playing around with your working Android smart phone or tablet, you can install it on virtual environment and try the all experiments and development tests on it. Obviously you are not going to get the…
iBoot is another great boot loader to install Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6 on a physical Intel computer or virtualization software Oracle VirtualBox. You can follow this method if you could not succeed with EFI Boot loaders or any others. I will show the step by step methods to use iBoot loader with VirtualBox to Install Snow Leopard and upgrade to latest version 10.6.4. This boot loader is looking pretty good and I’m hoping this will work with most of the 32 bit and 64 bit Intel processors, I’m not sure about AMD processor. This particular bootloader developed by…
Once you have several virtual machines on your VMware workstation, you should give the importance to manage the inventory of VMs. Especially whenever you reinstall the host Operating System or switch the computers; it is better to migrate your collection of virtual machines rather than rebuilding them. Recently I had to reinstall my Windows OS and other programs including VMware workstation on the same computer. As expected, the VMware workstation looked fresh without any of my earlier VMs. Let me show you how I managed to locate the earlier VMware workstation inventory file and migrated to the new installation. This…