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.
Having a setup like a data centre including VMware vSpehre (ESXi), NAS (Network Access Storage), iSCSI disks and several server VMs on a single (or couple of) PC is a wonderful way to learn and test. It allows replicating the production environment for testing purposes on low-cost hardware. In this article, I show you how to connect FreeNAS iSCSI disks to VMware vSphere/ESXi server. Though the server version is pretty old, most of the main steps remain the same for the latest versions. In this test lab setup, I used VMware vSphere, FreeNAS and Windows 2008 R2 servers to install…
When you try to connect a shared printer in Windows OS (mostly the older versions), you may receive an error message, “The printer driver is not compatible with a policy enabled on your computer that blocks NT 4.0 drivers”. In this guide, we will show you how to fix this certain issue and install the shared printer. This problem mostly occurs when you try to connect the printer with old print drivers from a Windows computer. Most of the older Windows versions like Vista and 2003 Server do not support ‘kernel-mode printer drivers’ for installation. These Windows Operating Systems (Vista)…
The sidebar feature was removed on Windows 7 OS by default. If you loved the cool and fancy sidebar on Windows Vista, you will notice that sidebar is missing in Windows 7. Microsoft realized the sidebar problems with the previous OS and they changed it to Windows 7. The sidebar and its gadgets consume lots of resources on the computer and impact the performance negatively. Microsoft came up with a different feature called ‘Gadgets’ in Windows 7. It allows users to add and remove only important gadgets to their desktop to maintain the better performance and appearance of the desktop.…
This article explains step by step method to install the older version of Mac OS X 10.5.5 in VMware on a Windows PC. If you are interested in learning the older version of Mac OS X Leopard to do some testing, then you can continue reading this article. This guide is only for testing purposes. Whoever doesn’t have the chance to buy Apple hardware with Mac OS can use this method for only learning purposes. Note: This article originally published in August 2009 Installation is not that easy. Installation is not as easy as inserting the CD and clicking ‘Next’…