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.
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…
VMware and VirtualBox made Hackintosh easy by allowing us to use them simultaneously as a virtual machine on the same host computer. In this post, we will talk about how to use the preinstalled VMware image of OS X 10.8 on a Windows OS physical computer. The preinstalled image and Torrent file we talk about in this article was created by a separate team called souldevteam back in the year 2012. Unoftuntily, the website and team are not active anymore to download the file from their website. Mountain Lion OS X is an outdated Apple OS. There are many other…
This guide is part of our Mac on Windows series. In this article, we will talk about working pre-installed VMware image of Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3. This VMDK file will work on most of the Intel-based desktop or laptop computers with Windows 10/8.1 or Windows 7. Software update to the latest version of Lion OS X is possible. This pre-installed image was created and uploaded by ZackehSoul. Though he used to be active for while, now we can’t find any trace of him. But the torrent file or the pre-installed image links are available on the internet. We earlier…