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- Get better system information from the Help and Support Center
- Microsoft Windows XP's alternate System Information tool is your one-stop center for information about your system hardware and software. Greg Shultz explains how to navigate to this useful system information. by Greg Shultz
- Blog posts 2008-07-16
- Silos / Bubbles
- One of the biggest problems within a large corporate organisation is the remoteness of the various teams that make it work. The company I work for suffers from this, at the European headquarters each team does its own thing but often has little or no understanding of the rest of...
- Blog posts 2007-07-28
- Anticipating customer questions makes your instructions more credible
- A month ago, I had the unexpected good fortune to be able to attend the Philadelphia appearance of singer Kenny Chesney, who brought with him Pat Greene, Sara Evans, Sugarland and Brooks & Dunn.  When tickets originally went on sale, in March, they sold out in half an hour. However, a...
- Blog posts 2007-07-27
- Back in the thick of it
- So the holiday in Greece is but a warm memory. My tan isn’t yet fading as the beach here in Swanage is in perfect working order but I have had to come down to earth with a huge bump, yes I’m back at work.The bathroom renovation is coming along...
- Blog posts 2007-07-25
- Insights from a book on why software s**ks
- For those of you who wonder why software is so difficult to use,may I suggest the book Why Software Sucks, by David S. Platt (note: I normally avoid such words, and give the title in its entirety here only out of a desire to be accurate). Infact,...
- Blog posts 2007-07-23
- The Conflict Of Style Over Content
- I have been attending and even delivering training recently. I have been presenting a section of a half day update course that has been delivered to our field force, covering the segment of the training that covers our updated mobile call logging system. I was sent a PowerPoint file that...
- Blog posts 2007-07-17
- Reading the road ahead
- This piece was posted late be cause I went on holiday! Don't worry, it doesn't happen often. why I should think of this whilst basking in the midday heat of Greece nobody knows.When you are driving you don’t just stare at the back of the car in front, you scan...
- Blog posts 2007-07-17
- Keep your customer informed
- One of the most tragic stories from the Titanic disaster and there were many involves the Allison family: Hudson J.C. Allison, his wife Bess and their young children, Loraine and Trevor. Traveling with them was the family nurse, Alice Cleaver. After the collision with the iceberg, the...
- Blog posts 2007-07-16
- 10 good reasons not to provide free tech support
- This information is also available as a PDF download.Because I'm an IT support professional, people routinely ask me to help them solve computer problems unrelated to my actual job. I like to help when and where I can, but there are serious pitfalls to accepting such requests. Providing free technical...
- Blog posts 2007-07-11
- When to end the call: further thoughts on rude treatment by customers
- Do not answer a fool according to his folly,or you will be like him yourself. Answer a fool according to his folly,or he will be wise in his own eyes. Jeff Dray offered some great insights regarding rude treatment that we receive from customers. "Rudeness, we...
- Blog posts 2007-07-09
- "This page intentionally left blank"
- This sentence, when I first saw it in an IBM manual, totally confused me. "What is the point," I asked myself, "of having this sentence? Of course I can see that the page is blank. What's more, doesn't the sentence actually contradict itself, because the page really...
- Blog posts 2007-07-02
- Rudeness, we don't have to tolerate it - From anyone!
- I must be getting old because it seems to me that good manners seem to be a thing of the past. People are so keen to assert themselves and protect their rights that they seem to forget that both sides of any arrangement have the same rights.It was with great...
- Blog posts 2007-06-30
- 10 ways to make desktop visits more effective
- This information is also available as a PDF download.Visiting a customer's workplace represents a considerable investment in time and resources. As field engineers, we must take great care to derive the maximum value from each visit and make certain our time and the customer's time isn't spent in vain. I...
- Blog posts 2007-06-25
- 5 MORE e-mail habits that waste time and cause problems
- In a previous article, I discussed a few common blunders associated with e-mail, such as veering off onto a new message topic without changing the subject line, omitting a subject line altogether, and using Reply To All when it's not necessary. Now it's time to continue this unfortunate list with...
- Blog posts 2007-06-25
- One of the Lads
- Continuing my quest for the bathroom beautiful I decided that Dodgy Dave’s quote was a bit high.  For about half a week’s work he quoted me just under £5000, a price that did not include the services of his plumber, electrician or plasterer.  I priced up the stuff I needed...
- Blog posts 2007-06-25
- Perceptions do matter
- It happened to me again recently. I don't know why, but it seems that wherever I am, even if it's far away from my home, people stop me and ask for directions.I was in Washington, D.C. on business. One evening, a woman on a bicycle stopped me while I...
- Blog posts 2007-06-18
- The Flashing Zero Generation
- As I passed through this veil of tears that is IT support I have experienced most of the types of caller, I have even created a taxonomic classification system for user types which has been the subject of a previous article.http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-1035_11-1034684.htmlI have to add another type of person to this...
- Blog posts 2007-06-17
- Make sure your customers can find you
- I had a great meeting at the University of Maryland the other day. They're pleased with my work, and find my suggestions valuable. Being in a good mood as I was leaving, therefore, I decided to stop at a Starbucks before driving back to Philadelphia.Not knowing the town...
- Blog posts 2007-06-11
- Combating prejudice on the Helpdesk.
- We had a caller who would describe himself as ‘Old School’ one of the young ladies took the call and was very brusquely asked to put him through to a ‘proper’ engineer.Whether it was her female voice or her Caribbean accent that he didn’t like wasn’t immediately clear, but she...
- Blog posts 2007-06-10
- What can we learn from Rita's Water Ice?
- My older daughter, Elise, just started working at a Rita's Water Ice store near our home. I've been to the store (when she isn't working, of course, so as not to embarrass her), was impressed by it, and let the owner (a franchisee/independent businessman, not an employee of Rita's...
- Blog posts 2007-06-03
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