In late July, 2024 an estimated 8.5 million computers crashed globally. The outage happened all at once and caused massive chaos throughout virtually every industry including airlines, banks, television stations, and retailers. Due to a lack of trained IT professionals available to some businesses to recover servers and computers that had crashed, many of these critical systems took days or weeks to get back online. The estimated losses from this event are estimated in the billions.
This particular bug was caused by a software glitch in the CrowdStrike security platform, a piece of cybersecurity software designed to protect against viruses and attacks, and highlights two important realities for all modern businesses. First, technology must be diversified throughout the enterprise. Second, companies must spend more to beef up their IT infrastructure, especially in the way of hiring more trained technicians to help manage and maintain computer systems, servers, and virtual machines.
my PC Techs specializes in helping businesses strategize their business and technology stack to avoid or, at the very least, minimize the impact an event like this would have on operations. Our expect IT management services lean towards deployments of diversified computing ecosystems. In addition, immediate patches or updates are frowned upon. A slightly delayed (1 day) patch or update approach allows your business to stay up to date, while ultimately avoiding these types of issues.
In addition, my PC Techs is a technology company that is available on-demand. If you need additional computer technicians in the event of a major problem, we are available. If you need an experience IT professional to help train existing IT staff for your business, we are available. And if your business currently has no IT management at all, we are available to help with as much or as little as you need. Basically, if you want peace of mind knowing that a technology expert is available anytime, on call, to help your business with any technology need, we are available.
For decades, we’ve helped hundreds of Phoenix area businesses deploy modern technologies allowing them to work faster and smarter. Questions? Give us a call today (602) 456-0150.
Are you experiencing problems with your HP printers, especially HP LaserJet printers, where they are constantly rebooting over and over? If you look closely at the screen just before the reboot you may see a message pop up “Service Error 79”.
We have noticed this happening in a few offices, where all of the HP printers on a network would reboot over and over and pop-up the Service Error 79 message. We tried all of the recommended steps we could find, such as:
Unplugging the printer and plugging it back in
Updating the printer firmware
Restoring to factory defaults
Cleaning out everything in the print queue from all network attached computers
Turning off all computers on the network
Changing IP from static to DHCP and back again
None of the above steps fixed the issue. However, we did notice that the printers would reboot over and over again and crash with the Service Error 79 message only when plugged in with an ethernet cable or if they were connected to Wi-Fi. When taking them off the network they did not reboot. When plugging them into a computer directly with a USB cable they did not reboot.
We’re talking about a mix of different LaserJet printers, at least 4 different models were doing the same thing.
Finally, we found out that a single setting on the printers was causing this. We went into the webpage for the printer, into the network settings, advanced, and disabled the “WS Discovery” service. It took several tries because we’d have to pause while navigating the site each time the printer rebooted (once every 10 seconds or so).
But ultimately if you wait until right after the printer reboots and comes online, then check mark the box to turn off WS Discovery and apply, it should fix the issue.
So far we’ve applied this “fix” to several HP printers and it has solved the issue in all cases.
Are you tired of dealing with computer, technology, or cybersecurity issues? Slow internet? Email problems? My PC Techs is for you.
Our friendly and reliable team of IT experts come to your office at a fraction of the cost of an in-house IT department. We free up valuable time by helping with:
Computers and Servers
Networking
Cybersecurity
Email and Databases
Cloud, Software, and Website development
My PC Techs is a local, family owned IT firm trusted by hundreds of Phoenix area businesses just like yours for 20 years.
As a business owner or manager, you know that reliable email communications are important to the success of your business. my PC Techs can help keep your corporate email running as smooth as possible, with fast and knowledgeable email support services for businesses located anywhere in the Phoenix, Arizona metro area. Our expert computer technicians come to you and help with all of your business technical support needs including email support, email hosting services, and the configuration of email accounts on computers, smartphones and tablets including iPhones, iPads, Android smartphones and tablets, desktop computers, laptops, and servers.
Whether your corporate email is hosted on Gmail, Office 365, Godaddy, webmail, or Exchange Server, or your client is Mail, Thunderbird, or Outlook, our expert techs are ready to help maximize your email configuration across all devices and services. We can also help your business setup an in-house server for internal email hosting or provide email hosting for you through one of our dedicated cloud servers.
Productivity in your inbox is important to us, which is why our experience with spam filtering technologies and email anti-virus strategies will help keep all of your business emails clean and clear of unnecessary distractions. No one wants to spend one to two hours per day filtering through annoying SPAM or risk infecting their computer network with viruses. No matter where you host your email, we can help prevent and resolve spam and viruses on all of your devices. If your inbox already faces issues with spam, our expert technicians can help cut spam by up to 95% through additional email spam filtering services or through other techniques.
We know that you want functional, easy to use email solutions for your business. Our many years of knowledge in the configuration and management of business email provides you with an unrivaled technical edge. Here are a few of the many ways we can help:
Create new email hosting services for your business internally or on Google Gmail, Microsoft Outlook, or other cloud email hosting services
Attach your email hosting to your business domain, so that your email address reads @#yourdomain# instead of some generic service such as @gmail.com or @hotmail.com.
Migrate all of your email from one service to a new email hosting service, preserving your emails along the way
Create and configure new email accounts for individual employees
Maintain Microsoft Exchange servers, solve errors with Exchange server, and perform Exchange upgrades
Setup and configure email accounts on iPads, iPhones, Android smartphones and tablets, computers, laptops, and more
Make sure that email is synchronized across all devices and configure email accounts for optimal performance
Solve email errors in your software including Outlook, Office 365, Thunderbird, and more
Prevent SPAM and viruses in email
No matter your email account problem, email hosting platform, or email software you can contact my PC Techs for exceptional support. Our business technology experts provide expert IT support and computer services for all of your computers, networks, and servers. Servicing Phoenix, Scottsdale, Tempe, Chandler, Gilbert and surrounding areas.
Don’t unplug, we come to you! The award winning technology team at my PC Techs makes it easy for your Phoenix or Scottsdale area business to save money and increase productivity by delivering superior technology solutions. Call now to schedule a visit from your own dedicated computer expert: (602) 456-0150 or click here to email us.
Phoenix, Arizona has it all: Warm weather, strong population growth, and a business-friendly economy making it one of the best places in America to own and operate a business. If you own a business in the Phoenix area you most likely depend on your computers for most of your day to day operations. It is important to protect your computers and important business data from viruses by hiring an experienced computer technician. Your Phoenix area business can count on my PC Techs, a local IT and computer repair company, to keep your computers and important data safe.
Most computer owners think all that is necessary to prevent viruses is a good antivirus program. While an antivirus program is a good start, hackers have elaborate methods for bypassing these safeguards. This means that spyware, malware, ransomware, rootkits, adware, Trojan viruses, and more might wind up infecting even the most cautious of computer users. To protect sensitive data, avoid infections from crafty viruses, and thwart ransomware viruses like Cryptolocker, seek a professional. Effective virus prevention usually involves user training, special software configurations, and routine monitoring from a professional computer technician.
Beyond prevention, virus removal is another area where you’ll want to enlist the help of a professional to be safe. In some extreme cases, a single virus infection that is not properly cared for can result in all of your computer data being lost forever. Even if everything seems fine at the moment, a computer can have a virus on it that is well-hidden. Rootkits, spyware, malware, adware, and trojans can slip by many virus software filters, wind up on a hard drive unnoticed, and endanger computer data.
Even seemingly “simple” to remove viruses like pop-ups from a fake virus infection require a professional to clean. If a computer is already infected, removing and cleaning the known virus or malware infection may involve a deeper look at the computer to find and remove associated viruses hidden from plain sight.
Our professional computer repair technicians are here to help protect your Phoenix, Arizona business computers and data. Our virus removal and prevention methods will help eliminate those pesky pop-ups and keep you safe from potentially costly ransomware infections such as Cryptolocker. After all, a well-protected computer is a happy computer.
Whether you need immediate computer help or regular computer services, contact us. The computer experts at my PC Techs provide expert computer maintenance and computer repair for your computers, networks, and servers. Servicing Phoenix, Scottsdale, Tempe, Chandler, Gilbert and surrounding areas, call (602) 456-0150.
Don’t unplug, we come to you! The award winning technology team at my PC Techs makes it easy for your Phoenix or Scottsdale area business to save money and increase productivity by delivering superior technology solutions. Call now to schedule a visit from your own dedicated computer expert: (602) 456-0150 or click here to email us.
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In late July, 2024 an estimated 8.5 million computers crashed globally. The outage happened all at once and caused massive chaos throughout virtually every industry including airlines, banks, television stations, and retailers. Due to a lack of trained IT professionals available to some businesses to recover servers and computers that had crashed, many of these critical systems took days or weeks to get back online. The estimated losses from this event are estimated in the billions.
