Managed Service Subscribing to one of our Managed Service Packages is a lot like having your own personal IT person when you need them. Look at the various options and pricing that we can now offer and see if any of these options work for you. Free Monitoring Our most basic plan is FREE. This plan allows us to monitor your computer for key problems, [...]
We want to just give you a quick update about some upcoming changes here at C-Prompt. Many of you will not even notice these changes; however, we want to let you know to be on the lookout for a couple of things. We are in the process of changing our ticketing software. The motivation for this is actually due to a need to change our vendor for our managed [...]
Opportunity of a Lifetime As many of you know, I work as the District Math Coach in RSU #74, in the schools in Solon, North Anson, and Anson. One of our fourth grade students recently received news of the opportunity of a lifetime. The National Youth Leadership Forum: Pathways to STEM is "a unique learning experience for bright, forward-thinking elementary school students who will evolve into next generation innovators, [...]
3 New Year’s Tech Resolutions You Should Actually Keep If your typical New Year’s resolutions lasted about 30 seconds, you’re not alone. Pledges to eat better, start running and learn how to juggle can be rebooted again next year easy enough. This year, we challenge you to think about your tech health with some resolutions you’ll want to keep. 1. No More Junk Mail Whether you checked a box [...]
What to Do if Your Hard Drive Fails If your hard drive is going bad, chances are strange things are happening and you’re a little panicked. It’s where you put your digital memories, your household files and maybe that thesis you’ve been working on for months. As far as you’re concerned, that hard drive IS the computer and failure is not an option. Perhaps it [...]
Many people automatically go to a box store when it is time for a new computer, lured in by their low advertised prices, not considering the additional costs that they may incur. Some of these locations, once you have decided to make the purchase, then start suggesting additional things you need. And while many of these things are important to have, you end up paying MORE than if you [...]
How to Tell if Your Computer Has a Virus? Sometimes computers do wacky things that ring alarm bells and make us dive for cover. Next thing you know, you’re running scans on repeat and demanding everyone come clean about their browsing habits. Fortunately, not all weird occurrences are caused by a virus – sometimes your computer is simply overloaded, overheating or in desperate need of a reboot. [...]
URGENT ALERT: 143 million Customers Exposed in Financial Data Breach Urgent Alert : Credit reporting company Equifax has just revealed that its databases were hacked in a large-scale breach affecting millions across the US, UK & Canada. While no hacking event is ever good news, some are easier to ignore than others – this isn’t one of them. The sensitive nature of the exposed data now requires immediate [...]
I feel like I'm often reminding people of this issue, but it's too important to ignore. Is your data backed up? Implementing backup systems are no longer the chore it once was. Backing Systems are easy Too many people assume that their machines will not fail, only to have the unthinkable happen to them and lose all their pictures, tax records, and other important documents. Backing up data [...]