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Enable USB 3.0 in the VirtualBox Manager

Enable USB 3.0 in the VirtualBox Manager.  If you use the Pen Drive which is USB 3.0 in the virtual box it may not be detected in the VM machine. To make it detected in the VM machine, you need to enable the USB 3.0 in the Virtual box manager. * Open the VirtualBox Manager.  * Click on the Setting to the machine you need to enable the USB 3.0. * Click on the USB Icon from the setting Page. * Check for the USB 3.0 Radio Button. Install Oracle Extension Pack to enable USB 3.0 in VirtualBox manager. To enable the USB support (USB 2.0 or 3,0) on the Oracle VM VirtualBox Guest machine, you must install Oracle VM Extension Pack on the Host machine. Shutdown the Guest machine. Download Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack . When download is completed, double click to launch the " Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-5.x.x.x.vbox-extpack " installer.  Follow the on screen instructions to install the Extension Pack on your computer. After Completing Instruction restart the oracle Virt

Do not automatically mark mail as read in Outlook

You may know already, but few of my friends facing the below confusion , so thought of sharing with you. When quickly going through my emails, often we haven’t actually really read the emails but Outlook already marks them as read. This is quite confusing unless we mark them as unread again which takes more time and defeats the purpose of quickly going through our emails. The options for how and when Outlook should mark emails as read can be found in; Outlook 2007 and previous Tools-> Options…-> tab Other-> button Reading Pane… Outlook 2010, Outlook 2013 and Outlook 2016 tab View-> Reading Pane-> Options… The default is set to mark items as read when you select another email. When you disable this option, all mails remain as unread unless you manually mark it as read or double click the message to open it in its own window. Once you uncheck  “mark items as read when selection changes”, the mail will change to read only when