.tQuickBooks has an impressive banking feature that enables its users to effectively manage their transaction records. Through the banking panel in the QB Desktop, users easily log into their online bank account to verify & manage their bank transaction details.
However, there are many technical errors that prevent users from accessing their online bank account through QuickBooks. One such technical error is QuickBooks Error 179, which primarily gets provoked due to multiple logins into the online bank account.
The purpose of this article is to examine this technical error in detail, and various troubleshooting techniques that can be used to eliminate this glitch are also explained.
To get reliable help to extirpate QuickBooks Error 179, you can dial 1-855-856-0042 to reach out to our QB Experts Team.
Major Symptoms that Indicate Banking Error 179 in QuickBooks
The Banking Error 179 in QuickBooks can be easily identified through the prominent symptoms described as follows:
- First of all, you will be unable to access & download your banking transaction details through the online bank website.
- You may also notice a message stating that Windows has got damaged and needs to be repaired immediately.
- The QB Desktop application may freeze & it will be impossible to work on it as all the tabs & buttons would become totally unresponsive.
- You also might get a corrupted company file message on your system’s screen.
- In extreme cases, it is also possible that your computer may shut down abruptly without any on-screen warning.
What Are the Prominent Reasons behind the QB Desktop Banking Error Message 179?
The various important factors that trigger QB Desktop Banking Error Message 179 are explained as follows:
- This error most commonly gets provoked due to multiple logins into the online bank account through several devices by the QB user.
- If the online banking credentials that are being used for logging into the online bank account are invalid, then this technical glitch can easily occur.
- Any difference in the online banking credentials stored in the QB Banking Panel and the official bank’s website can also trigger this error.
- If the QB Desktop user is mistakenly trying to access an invalid bank’s website through the web browser, then this error can swiftly get provoked.
Effective Techniques to Perfectly Resolve QB Desktop 179 Banking Error Code
The following reliable troubleshooting techniques will help you to effectively eliminate QB Desktop 179 Banking Error Code on your system:
Technique 1: Validate your online banking login credentials & then update them in the QB Banking Panel to resolve this problem
- In this technique, you need to first check the accuracy of your online banking credentials & for that, you should immediately utilize your web browser to gain access to the official bank’s website, and then you will type the online banking credentials that you currently possess to the appropriate location.
- After correctly typing the online banking credentials to the relevant location, you shall promptly strike the ‘Sign-in’ button shown on the screen in order to log into your official bank account.
- Now, if you do not have valid banking login credentials, an error message will prompt on the screen stating that the entered credentials are incorrect, and then you shall move ahead to create fresh banking login credentials using the procedure described on the website.
- At this point, you must carefully follow all the steps that are needed to generate fresh banking login credentials, and once you have done that, you should navigate back to the ‘QuickBooks Desktop Banking Panel’ on your system.
- Just thereafter, move ahead to click on the ‘Edit’ option and then simply strike the ‘Edit Sign-in Info’ button so that you are able to successfully type the recently-generated online banking login credentials.
- Now, move to the ‘Update’ button on the ‘QuickBooks Desktop Banking Panel’ & then tap that button so that you can successfully update the fresh online banking login credentials; then you will be able to easily access the online bank account through your QB application on the computer.
Technique 2: Completely erase all the browsing history, temporary files & cache data from the ‘Internet Explorer’ browser to resolve this problem
- First & foremost, just correctly open up the ‘Internet Explorer’ browser on your computer and then instantly move to the top-right corner of the screen so that you can strike on the ‘Tools’ icon situated there; after that, you should simply click on the ‘Safety’ option.
- Within the ‘Safety’ option, you will locate the ‘Delete Browsing History’ option, and then you must tap on that option so that you can reliably obtain a fresh window on the screen with the title ‘Delete Browsing History’.
- Now, just go to the ‘Delete Browsing History’ window & then you shall very carefully check the ‘History’, ‘Cookies and Website Data’ as well as the ‘Temporary Internet Files & Website Files’ checkboxes; once you have done that, you must proceed to instantly click on the ‘Delete’ option at the bottom of the window.
- Just after that, all the selected files & data will get fully erased from the ‘Internet Explorer’ browser & then you will be able to successfully access the online bank account through your QB Desktop application on the computer.
Technique 3: Promptly ensure that you have not logged into your online bank account through multiple devices & systems
- You must check all the devices & systems currently in your possession that you have not logged into your online bank account. It is because having multiple logins into the online bank account easily provokes this technical issue.
- Once you have successfully eliminated the multiple logins problem, you can proceed to access the ‘QuickBooks Desktop Banking Panel’ on your computer & then you will easily sign into your official online bank account through the valid credentials.
Technique 4: Eliminate all the network glitches as well as repair the company file by properly executing the ‘QB File Doctor’ utility
- First & foremost, all you have to do is to access the ‘Internet Explorer’ web browser so that you can log onto the official Intuit website, and then you must use the valid link provided on that website to download the newest edition of the ‘QuickBooks Tool Hub’ on your system immediately.
- Just after that, you should also save the ‘QB Tool Hub’ file (‘QuickBooksToolHub.exe’) to an appropriate location, such as the Downloads folder on your computer & then you shall just launch that file so that you can obtain the valid installation steps related to the QB Tool Hub installation.
- Now, implement all those on-screen installation steps very carefully so that you can complete the installation of the ‘QuickBooks Tool Hub’ on your computer; once you have accomplished that, you can proceed further to simply double-click on the valid icon of the ‘QB Tool Hub’.
- Thereafter, the ‘QuickBooks Tool Hub’ will instantly open up on the screen & then you can just tap the ‘Company File Issues’ tab so that you are able to finally access the ‘Run QuickBooks File Doctor’ utility.
- Just click on the ‘Run QuickBooks File Doctor’ utility icon so that you can open it up, and then simply utilize the ‘Browse and search’ option to immediately get hold of the relevant company file through its valid location on the computer.
- At this crucial step, carefully mark the ‘Check your file’ checkbox on the screen & then move ahead to just hit the ‘Continue’ option, after which you can attentively type your QB admin password at the relevant location on the screen.
- Once you have typed the QB admin password in the relevant field, you must press the ‘Next’ option, and then the ‘QB File Doctor’ utility will instantly begin to rectify all the damages from the company file & at the same time, it will also repair the network easily.
- Now, you must allow sufficient time for the ‘QuickBooks File Doctor’ utility to complete its entire execution on the system & once this utility has correctly finished its execution, you must move out of the ‘QB Tool Hub’ so that you can successfully attempt to log into your online bank account through the ‘QB Desktop Banking Panel’.
Technique 5: Make suitable changes in the Windows Registry to easily tackle this technical problem
- In this useful technique, you will need to first bring up the ‘Run’ window by tapping the ‘Windows + R’ keys & then you will type the word ‘regedit’ in the ‘Run’ window box, after which you can easily tap the ‘OK’ option to obtain the Windows Registry Editor.
- Now, proceed to access & save the key associated with this error and then generate a separate file with a fresh name & this file must be saved with the ‘reg’ extension.
- Thereafter, move back to the ‘QB Desktop Banking Panel’ to get successful access to the online bank account on the system.
QuickBooks Error 179 can be very easily exterminated by implementing the techniques explained above. For further guidance & help, dial 1-855-856-0042 to reach out to our QB Professionals Team.
