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- Chain e-mails. We've all received them, and most IT professionals probably loathe them. But how should we go about asking people to refrain from sending them without running the risk of offending a good friend or a relative? This is my stab at it. by Joe Rosberg
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- 10 questions to simplify the new rules of IT compliance: An interview with Joe Degidio
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- More user options with User Account Control in Windows 7 Beta
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- Video: Five vital communication skills for IT leaders and their staff
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- Determine how Outlook displays unread messages
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- Create a timesheet in Excel to track billable hours for your customers
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- Insert a line above a Word table at the top of the page
- If you've ever gotten stuck trying to add text above a table at the beginning of a document, this tip's for you -- and you won't believe how easy it is. by Mary Ann Richardson
- Do you need emotional intelligence to be a better support tech?
- Do you need "emotional intelligence" to get ahead in your tech support career? What is EI exactly? Here's a Web seminar, a free online test, and a completely frivolous poll to get you started on earning a high EQ. by Selena Frye
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- Debating Forrester Research: Service providers and failure
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- Poll: How does your 2009 IT budget compare to 2008?
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- The IT Strategic Plan Step-By-Step
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- IP Telephony from A to Z: The Complete IP Telephony eBook
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- How Business Networks are Evolving Today
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- IT Dojo: Create your own bootable USB flash drive for Windows XP
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- Mercury LoadRunner Tips for Configuration, Scripting, and Execution
- This white paper provides tips and tricks for Mercury LoadRunner configuration, scripting, and execution. This guide is intended to help testers just learning to use LoadRunner, as well as to provide new best practices for those who have used LoadRunner for many years.
- Download this project plan template
- If you've taken on a small to midsize project that doesn't warrant a full-scale plan in Microsoft Project, download this Excel spreadsheet template sent in by a TechRepublic member for quick and easy project management.
- Use these four Registry tweaks to accelerate Windows XP
- Plenty of third-party programs claim to tweak or optimize Windows. However, most of them simply make Registry edits. Here are four manual tweaks that experienced IT professionals can make to improve the speed of Windows XP.Title: Windows XP Hacks, 2nd Edition ISBN: 0596009186 Published: February 2005 Author: Preston Gralla Chapter:...
- 10+ essential (and free) Windows applications
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- TCP/IP Troubleshooting
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- Boot Windows XP from a USB flash drive
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- 10 mistakes new Linux administrators make
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- Five things we have learned from Bill Gates
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- Go Green with Ease: Five Steps for Small Businesses
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- Top 10 Windows XP tips of 2008
- TechRepublic has written thousands of tips, tweaks, tricks, and hacks since Windows XP first appeared on the scene -- and this year has been no exception. To wind up 2008, we put together this final collection of some of the highest rated Windows XP techniques of the year. For...
- Video: Three critical things to do before reinstalling Windows
- Whether you support your tech-novice family members or a corporate office, you will have to reinstall Microsoft Windows at some point. In this IT Dojo video, Bill Detwiler goes over the three things you need to do before reinstalling Windows to make the process go smoothly. by Bill Detwiler
- Understanding Networking Fundamentals
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