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A Prank

SurgicalStr1ke shares a harmless prank to help a colleague understand why it's a bad idea to leave their computer screen unlocked: "[S]creenshot of the desktop, set as wallpaper, hide icons. I did this in college in 2003 and it still gives me a small chuckle now." And greenwood93 suggests, "Fake windows updates are fun, a user who left their laptop open got to something like 600% one day; don't

IT Pro Tuesday #219

Welcome back to IT Pro Tuesday! We’re looking for your favorite tips and tools we can share with the community... those that help you do your job better and more easily. Please reply or leave a comment with your suggestions, and we'll be featuring them in the coming weeks. As always, we’re updating the full list on our website here. Enjoy. Free Tool DiffMerge is a multi-platform tool for visually

A Practical Joke

This inspired practical joke was shared by its evil-genius author, Sunsparc, who definitely earns points for creativity. (Just to be clear: We are definitely NOT suggesting you do anything like this to someone you know.) "I push a Powershell script to one particular user that fetches a random cat fact from a website then reads it through their computer speakers out loud. They're thoroughly

IT Pro Tuesday #172

Get this in your inbox each week. Welcome back to IT Pro Tuesday! We're looking for your favorite tips and tools we can share with the community... those that help you do your job better and more easily. Please reply or leave a comment with your suggestions, and we'll be featuring them in the coming weeks. As always, we’re updating the full list on our website here. Enjoy. But on with this week's

Tech Support Shorts: The Interview

Tech Support Shorts: The Interview is a highly amusing peek into the life of an IT pro, and it does a bang-up job speaking to the repressed frustrations lurking deep in the souls of most who work in the field. It's the brainchild of Adam Bergeron, a professional writer/actor with 15 years experience in IT, so it's both well-done and pretty accurate.

IT Pro Tuesday #164

Get this in your inbox each week. Welcome back to IT Pro Tuesday! Did you know that Microsoft 365 allows ransomware threats, phishing messages and spam to enter your users’ mailboxes? Although Microsoft provides email threat protection on M365, it only offers a basic level of security that is not enough. To prevent your users from introducing ransomware and other threats, you need an additional

IT Pro Tuesday #160

Tech Support Cheat Sheet

Tech Support Cheat Sheet is the answer for those tired of being expected to know how to use every piece of software that has ever been written, regardless of whether it has anything to do with your job. This all-purpose how-to is the perfect addition to your arsenal of user training materials. Battle-tested by Hoggs, who wryly adds, "I share this with my users a lot. :)"

IT Pro Tuesday #134

Get this in your inbox each week. Welcome back to IT Pro Tuesday! This week, we're asking for your favorite tools and timesavers we can share with the community... those that help you do your job better and more easily. Please reply or leave a comment with your suggestions, and we'll be featuring them in the coming weeks. As always, we’re updating the full, searchable list on our website here

Faildesk

Faildesk is a humorous blog dedicated to all the IT professionals who work tirelessly to make sure "the system stays up." Features jokes, gags and spoofs plus hundreds of posts with stories, pictures and video of real life situations that maybe only a sysadmin can appreciate.