October 8, 2009

Technical support is evolving

Isn’t technology wonderful when it works?  And it’s absolutely hateful when it doesn’t work the way it is supposed to!  I’ve been around long enough to know that computer glitches are the work of the technology demons that hover over and around everyone who uses the computer.  At any moment the blue screen of death could appear!  In the not too distant past, even minor computer glitches could paralyze an office for a day or two; waiting for the “computer guy” to show up to fix the problem, or even worse the computer would have to be taken to an off-premise site for a week or more.  Ahhhh….. those were the “bad ol’ days!” of the pioneering days of the personal computer.

In the modern day, remote desktop software can be, and often is, the answer to many of the problems that can arise in an office full of computers.  This secure software enables a user to be in one location and access the computers in a different location to trouble-shoot and hopefully repair what is wrong with the troubled computer.  So if the problem with the computer is not something as drastic as the motherboard frying, the quick-fix is a real possibility with this type of technology.