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		<title>Continuous Development &#8211; IT Training</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jul 2011 08:24:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While most companies have an IT department in place, few but the most substantial teams are able to boast a complete set of competencies required to ensure the successful establishment, maintenance, and optimisation of the IT infrastructure. That&#8217;s where professional level IT Training really comes to the fore. IT training can also prove highly beneficial [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>While most companies have an IT department in place, few but the most substantial teams are able to boast a complete set of competencies required to ensure the successful establishment, maintenance, and optimisation of the IT infrastructure. That&#8217;s where professional level IT Training really comes to the fore.</p>
<p>IT training can also prove highly beneficial when implementing new software or establishing a new network. These may require new skills from your existing IT department, as well as other employees within your company. By offering the appropriate training you can cover almost any eventuality and provide your IT team with the skills they need to be self sufficient.<br />
End user IT training courses should be conducted for any team members that will be using your IT infrastructure but even the most skilled members of your IT team may be unable to effectively train people; they are also better placed employing their skills in other areas in most cases. Outsourcing IT training provides the means to allow your IT team to continue their core competencies while ensuring that all necessary team members have the right level of training.</p>
<p>Outsourcing IT Training enables businesses to run at their most efficient. Whether you&#8217;ve had new software or a whole new network or system installed, or require support staff training for an existing IT team, or you require training for non-technical departments on more basic applications - you should consider outsourced IT training.</p>
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		<title>Pasting Text into HTML Format Emails</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 13:50:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fifosys News Desk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you send or reply to an HTML-format email and you want to paste in some text from another application such as Word, the chances are that your pasted text will take on totally different (and usually unexpected) formatting &#8212; it will stick out like the proverbial sore thumb.  One of the most straightforward ways [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you send or reply to an HTML-format email and you want to paste in some text from another application such as Word, the chances are that your pasted text will take on totally different (and usually unexpected) formatting &#8212; it will stick out like the proverbial sore thumb. </p>
<p>One of the most straightforward ways to blend the pasted text into the email is as follows:</p>
<ol>
<li>Paste it into the blank Cc or Bcc box (where you would normally type the list of addressees)</li>
<li>Select all of the text that you just pasted and cut it.</li>
<li>Now paste it into the body of the email where you want it.</li>
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<p>The act of pasting the text into the Cc/Bcc line strips out any formatting information, so that when you come to paste it into the HTML, Outlook has no option but to adopt the format of the existing text, and hence your pasted text fits right in.</p>
<p>Alternatively, you paste your text into a blank document in Notepad (from the accessories menu). This will have the same results.</p>
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		<title>Spring Clean Your Hard Drive</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 16:23:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fifosys News Desk</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[IT Tips]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Empty your Windows Temp directory • Close all open programs. • Then open Windows Explorer and navigate to C:WindowsTemp.   (Note: If Windows is installed on another drive, substitute the appropriate drive letter for C:. While C:WindowsTemp is the default location and common on most Windows systems, your temp directory could also be located in another place, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Empty your Windows Temp directory</p>
<p>• Close all open programs.<br />
• Then open Windows Explorer and navigate to C:WindowsTemp.<br />
  (Note: If Windows is installed on another drive, substitute the appropriate drive letter for C:. While C:WindowsTemp is the default location and common on most Windows systems, your temp directory could also be located in another place, e.g. C:Temp)<br />
• Open the folder and press Ctrl-A on your keyboard to high-light the entire contents of the Temp folder and push the Delete key to get rid of all this junk.</p>
<p>Empty the Bin</p>
<p>• When you delete files from your drive, they don&#8217;t actually get deleted right away.<br />
• Double-click on the Recycle Bin icon to see what is in here.<br />
• Make sure that everything in here is just junk, then close this window, right-click on the Recycle Bin icon and select Empty Recycle Bin.</p>
<p>Remove old unused programs</p>
<p>• You probably have a lot of unused programs wasting disk space.<br />
• Go through the list of currently installed programs on your PC and remove everything that you don&#8217;t use anymore.<br />
• Go to Start/Settings/Control Panel/Add/Remove Programs, browse the list, and high-light and remove what is no longer wanted.<br />
• Some programs don’t take up too much space but others can take up hundreds of MB.</p>
<p>Defrag your drive frequently</p>
<p>• Over time, your hard drive will become fragmented, meaning that files are scattered all over the drive<br />
• By defragmenting your hard drive, you rearrange files, programs, and unused space on your hard drives so that programs run faster and files open more quickly<br />
• Go to Start/Programs/Accessories/System Tools/Disk Defragmenter<br />
• Click the Settings button and make sure both boxes &#8211; “Rearrange program files” and “Check the drive for errors” &#8211; are checked and choose the option to use “Every time I defragment my Hard Drive”<br />
• Then select the drive you wish to defragment<br />
• Depending on how fragmented and how large the drive is, this process can take anywhere from a few minutes to a few hours so be prepared to leave the computer alone for a while until this has finished</p>
<p>Scan your drive for errors frequently</p>
<p>• Every drive has a few bad clusters and will develop more over time. In addition, hard drives can have lost file fragments, cross-linked files, and other file system errors<br />
• To check for these types of errors and correct them, go to Start/Programs/Accessories/System Tools/ScanDisk<br />
• Make sure the box to “Automatically fix errors” is selected<br />
• Check the Advanced button for more settings. The default settings are usually fine<br />
• Then select the drive you want to scan, and click Start</p>
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