Category: Guru-Tip
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Supercharge Your Laptop with AI: A Step-by-Step Guide to Performance Optimization
Have you been struggling with a sluggish laptop that takes forever to boot up or open applications? Are you frustrated waiting minutes for programs to load? I certainly was—until I discovered how to leverage AI to optimize my system performance. In this post, I’ll share how AI helped me transform my laptop’s performance, reducing application…
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Demystifying AI’s Inner Workings: How Tokens and Context Shape What Models Understand
Tokens and context windows are the hidden engines behind every AI conversation. In this technical deep dive, you’ll learn how AI splits, processes, and remembers information—and how understanding these mechanics can help you cut costs, boost performance, and make smarter choices when using tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and Copilot.
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The Ultimate AI Assistant Showdown: A Decision-Maker’s Guide to Choosing the Right Chatbot for Your Business Needs
Choosing the right Chat for the right purpose As AI assistants become essential business tools, selecting the right one for your specific needs has never been more crucial. With options ranging from ChatGPT’s versatility to Claude’s emphasis on safety, from Microsoft Copilot’s deep Office integration to specialized tools like Jasper Chat for marketing, the landscape…
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Boost Productivity, Security & Compliance with Sysinternals Suite
Unlock the full potential of Microsoft’s Sysinternals Suite to supercharge system monitoring, threat hunting, and compliance reporting. In this post, we’ll walk through must-know utilities like Process Explorer, Autoruns, and PSExec, plus tips on automating your troubleshooting pipeline. Whether you’re securing servers or streamlining helpdesk ops, these lightweight tools deliver enterprise-grade insights without the price…
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Azure Getting Started via PowerShell
I have done hundreds of events and there are always obstacles to onboarding the attendees/students. I decided to create a succinct help document. I hope this helps PowerShell Everything after a “#” pound sign is a not and can be ignored; no need to paste that into the PowerShell window. Run PowerShell as an Administrator…
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DevOps and Bots, What you need to know!
Followers of the ITProGuru blog are likely interested in DevOps. Those that are advancing in their DevOps journey will undoubtedly want to apply DevOps processes to leverage Bots. One of my peers, Jamie Dalton has written an excellent blog post to pull together the best information to help you on that journey. He is eager…
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How To use PowerShell to Install and Import Modules and Connect to Azure–Step by Step
<# ========= Connect-AzureRm.ps1 ======================================= Name: Connect-AzureRm.ps1 Purpose: Connect to Azure from Powershell. Includes installing modules, importing modules, authenticating (including multi-factor) and selecting the subscription Author: Dan Stolts – dstoltsµsoft.com – http://ITProGuru.com Script Home: http://ITProGuru.com/Scripts Syntax/Execution: Copy portion of script you want to use and paste into PowerShell (or ISE) Disclaimer: Use at your own Risk!…
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Everything You Need To Know About State Of The Art SSD Drives NVMe PCIe M2 with Paul Braren and ITProGuru
Recent SSD performance has catapulted storage capabilities into a new level of reality. Learn about this new technology. Paul Braren shares insights about the technology, how to install it, how to measure performance and most importantly what you can expect out of this great new technology. Read more about Paul’s findings at: https://tinkertry.com/search?s=nvme or purchase…