Iconize your Windows taskbar buttons with Taskbaric

Taskbaric is a small program with a simple purpose: to iconize Windows taskbar buttons. Taskbaric works on Windows XP and Vista.   Instructions Run the program (taskbaric.exe) to iconize the taskbar buttons. To undo the effect, simply run the program again. To get the optimal results with the XP version (taskbaric_xp.exe), apply the registry changes … Read more

Hidden Bluetooth Service in Windows XP and Vista

This Bluetooth trick is an old one but just publishing for people who still don’t know. Most of you people are searching for software for your Bluetooth Dongles or Bluetooth devices over Internet. Don’t worry there is a hidden blue tooth software in Windows XP and Vista. Follow the below mentioned method for this Blue … Read more

13 Fantastic Linux System Monitoring Tools

Every LINUX system admin must now these tools to perfectly manage and monitor the server performance. Try these built-in commands and a few add-on tools. Most Linux distributions are equipped with tons of monitoring. These tools provide metrics which can be used to get information about system activities. You can use these tools to find … Read more

Download Handbook: The Seven Sources of Problems

Introducing the Seven Sources Model The seven sources model is simply a reference model to help structure your thinking and improvement plans for eliminating Problems within your organization. This is the basic model at the highest level and shows you only the first set of labels for each of the seven sources. This guide based … Read more

Desktop Refers to a Location That is Unavailable

If you get this error then you probably had Desktop pointing to x: drive and moved the files to somewhere else (by right-clicking Desktop, selecting Properties and clicking Move). One of the registry settings wasn’t updated by the move. HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerUser Shell FoldersDesktop This probably still has a value of x:desktop. Change it to %USERPROFILE%Desktop Note: … Read more

Download Ebook: ITIL Handbook

itil-1 Good news for ITIL lovers. In my last post about ITIL, I shared an SLA preparation guide. Check a very good hand book about ITIL. Even a beginner can read it very easily and understand the framework of ITIL. I am going to share few parts of this handbook just for reference. For complete handbook, please visit the link given at the end of this post.

Service Support

itil-3 Today, IT Helpdesk is the lifeline of any business from small to large, and most IT managers and helpdesk managers are struggling to have an efficient and productive helpdesk. We will focus on this problem here. As ITIL Service Support offers the best practices framework for IT helpdesk, let us see how ITIL can help helpdesk managers and IT managers. ITIL’s IT Service Support Module offers best practices to make sure IT Services are highly available.

ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus Enterprise Edition implements these IT Service Support
modules. To download visit the link under given;

ManageEngine_ServiceDesk_Plus

Incident Management

itil-4 An incident is a disruption of normal service that affects the user and the business. The goal of Incident Management is to restore IT services to the normal state as soon as possible with workarounds or solutions to make sure that it does not affect business.

It may sound like a sugar-coated sophisticated trouble ticketing system. However, Incident Management tells you how to implement an IT Helpdesk that understands and works to meet business priorities.

Here’s a sample Incident Management workflow. Consider this as a basic format and make changes wherever required.

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