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.

Usually, the OS X installation DMG file will not work on the virtualization environment or non-mac computers. If we need to boot a virtual machine either on VMware or VirtualBox, we need to modify the installation medium to continue the Mac OS X installation. The guide will show you how to make a bootable Lion OS X image that can be used on VMware or any Intel-based physical computer. I managed to install Mac 10.7 Lion onto my Windows 7 32-bit by following the steps in this article! NOTE: The guide you are reading now was published over ten years…

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Here is the way to get back the traditional start menu and start button back in Windows 2012 or 2012 R2 server operating systems. Like Windows 8, Windows 2012 and R2 servers also come without the start button and menu. Therefore you may feel uneasy while using this OS initially. If you like to get the start button/menu back, you can follow the below steps. It works well on Windows 2012 standard and data centre versions. Read Also: How to show my computer icon on Windows 2012/2012R2 Server. We will be using a third-party utility to get the classic start…

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The integrated Gmail client is a great built-in application for email lovers in Android OS. I’m enjoying this feature with my Samsung Galaxy Y Pro Duos (pretty old model while updating this post in the year 2018). This guide is applicable for any Andoird OS version and smartphone to fix when the Gmail app stopped receiving emails automatically. Recently in my Samsung Galaxy phone, the Gmail stopped receiving new emails and giving notifications suddenly. It worked well initially, so I’m sure that one of the recent changes I did on this phone caused the issue. Whenever I remember or expect…

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When you get the error message “VT-x is not available (VERR_VMX_NO_VMX)” in Windows 10 or 11, follow the below steps to fix it. You may get a “Failed to open a session for the virtual machine {VM Name}” message when you tried to power on a VM in VirtualBox that used to work fine earlier. What is the Reason? The Oracle VirtualBox software is not detecting the virtualization technology (VT-x) in the host Operating System. VT-x is a hardware feature that is available on most of the latest computers. In my example, it was working fine till the recent time.…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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