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.
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…
Using ‘Apps’ on the PC differs from using the usual programs in Windows 8.1 or Windows 8 users. As you are aware, Windows 8 came with two types of interfaces: tile-based metro UI and normal desktop mode. Closing an opened program or window in desktop mode is as same as earlier operating systems. But in metro UI, closing an app is really tricky if you are new to Windows 8 or 8.1 Operating Systems. This small guide shows all possible ways to close apps in Windows 8 and 8.1. Usually, apps do not have a close ( x ) or…
Update: If you are using Windows 8 Enterprise version at home, you would be in slight trouble, because you can’t upgrade it to Windows 8.1 from the Windows store or control panel. Even you can’t upgrade it by the ISO file available from the Microsoft site publicly. Windows 8 Enterprise can be upgraded only by the medium you download from the Volume Licensing Service Center (VLSC). Mostly the Microsoft EA and SA business customers have access to VLSC. By any chance, you have Windows 8 Enterprise on your home computers, the only solution is to take a full backup of…
Follow these steps to download and install working OS X 10.9 Mavericks pre-installed VMware image for Windows 10, and 7 on Intel processor computers. Doing a fresh installation of OS X 10.9 on VMware workstation by Apple’s original DMG file is not so easy. We already published a guide about installing Mavericks on VMware from the DMG file. Instead of going through those difficult tasks, you can simply download this pre-installed and configured image and use it instantly. Since this was made by the vanilla kernel (without modifying the original kernel), future software updates also possible with it. Steps to…
For some specific reasons, if you are still using Windows XP after the year 2020, this guide will be showing you how to enable ping response in Windows XP. When the Windows firewall is turned on, which is the default setting in XP computers, it will not respond to ping requests from other computers or network devices. That means we can’t ping and get a reply from the particular XP computer. We will be getting a ‘Request Time Out’ reply from the destination, even though it is connected and accessible on the local network. The reason is that the ICMP…
Even though Windows 11 is available at the moment, if you still want to try Windows 8.1 as a virtual machine for testing/development purposes, this guide will be useful. Do you want to upgrade your existing Windows 7 or 8 computer? Why don’t you try it in a virtual environment first? You can download the Windows 8.1 ISO file from the official website and try it on desktop virtualization software VirtualBox before installing it on a physical desktop or laptop. This article explains how to install Windows 8.1 (Enterprise or Professional) on VirtualBox and configure guest additions for a better display…
For some special reasons, if you are still using Windows XP or Windows 7, then you will like this post. In this guide, we show you how to remove the desktop icon background color. Most of the time after changing the theme, desktop background or something related to the desktop appearance in Windows XP, you may face this strange display color issue. Let’s learn how to remove it in Windows XP and Windows 7 and make the icon background color transparent By default Windows XP theme comes with transparent icon background color as below: But when you do some changes…