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Top 10 Laptop Maintenance and Repair Tips

12/04/2011 16:51

Laptop may be the hottest gadget used by all kinds of people in spite of ages. It is a revolutionary technology on this planet of computing. If you're familiar in working with a personalized computer, this looks fairly simple and as easy as that. But the fact is, laptops are inclined to many technical glitches when compared to the desktop computers. The better you practice care of your laptop, the more it will last and stay productive with less downtime.

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Read the below guidelines to keep your laptop safe against many kinds of problems.

(1) Stay clear of dust particles - Dust has become the bad omens for the laptops. Make sure you clean your laptops regularly by using a soft cloth rather than any rough material. Make sure you turn off your laptop for safety precautions before cleaning carefully. Will not touch it but if your hand is dirty. Avoid chemicals or acids to clean your laptop. Use a small-tipped vacuum or a can of compressed air to clean it. Always cover your laptop in its bag during non-usage hours to shed environmental dusts. Do not forget the saying, "Cleanliness is near to Godliness".

(2) Keep away from liquid and food - Will not eat near any food your laptop notebook. Thier food particles could occupy the spaces while in the keyboard and invite bugs as well as its families. This would resulted in worst and frustrating situation. Also the liquids will produce short circuit issues and destroy your laptop.

(3) Stay clear of abnormal temperature and weather - Laptops generate more quantities of heat and are efficient at adequate thermal tolerances. To take care of it, keep it from direct sunlight or a bad weather. Avoid laptops in the kitchen. Cover it with the tight laptop bag based on its size while transporting. Will not operate your laptop near any magnetic devices such as microwave oven as this could damage the difficult disk.

Overheating is a big problem for all kinds of laptops. To lose it and to develop the longer run, this facts have to be incorporated carefully.

(4) Have a track on manufacturer's manual, guide or their official website - The maker will update all the relevant drivers and you could find all the details such as version number, file size, any patches, defect fixes, troubleshooting etc on the official website. Confirm the warranty period and preserve all the necessary paper documents to exchange or repair if the product is found containing defects.

(5) Defrag the difficult disk - Defragging your harddrive is one of the efficient mechanisms while in the operating system as the files will usually be fragmented in the hard drive. It will ensure your laptop to perform effectively by removing and reducing the unwanted spaces to make the programs run quickly. Make sure you do this operation each month. In Windows XP, you can find the defragmenter tool while in the below path: START-> All Programs-> Accessories-> System Tools-> Disk Defragmenter.

(6) Clean the temporary and corrupt files - It is obvious that the internet files is going to be downloaded to a temporary location and more than the period of time, the room consumption of these files rule above the hard disk. It is highly important to remove the temp files. To do this, go to (a) RUN-> type TEMP striking enter. (b) Muscle tissue, %TEMP%, RECENT Delete all the files. One or few will not be deleted, not to worry though, as some system files is going to be in-progress. The sad news is always that, there could also be some viruses in cases like this!

Also use CCleaner, a freeware that operates great in deleting the temporary files, internet cache files, cookies and also other unwanted or corrupted files while in the registry.

(7) Force away malicious programs - Malware programs are way too dangerous that will eat away your computer data and capture sensitive information such as username, password and send it on the creator. The hall of shame is none other than the hacker or any intruder. Many of the types of malwares are viruses, spyware, adware, trojan, worm, rootkit, keylogger, botnet, backdoor. Are all unique and special in its own job of hijacking user's data, playing to be a spy and record your activities and much more vulnerable that what you believe! These are indeed still the cruel area for all organizations. To defend against these, make sure you grab a copy of popular anti-virus such as Symantec. Also it is advisable to use Spyware Doctor or Anti Spyware tool to fight against spyware, adware etc. Do not forget to turn on your windows firewall. Update your products such as software, OS regularly to be up-to-date.

(8) Full Backup - Taking full backups is especially recommended to be on the safer side with the journey. Data is really precious to every one. Though other protection measures are taken, data backup is known as an inevitable task. Use Norton Ghost to backup the total data in your harddrive. It would be beneficial if the System Restore choice is turned on to revert here we are at earlier stage when it comes to any issues.

(9) Security measures - Have a safety lock in your laptop. Try to use advanced login facilities such as face recognition, thumb impression recognizer to ensure that if the laptop goes to the enemy or wrong user, your data can be preserved.

(10) Other safety precautions - If you are not at ease touchpad, opt for a separate optical/wireless mouse. Keyboards are way too fragile when compared with personal computer's keyboard thus use gently.

What's more? Smoking is not only injurious to health but in addition its surroundings! These chemicals accumulate a growing number of in the meager areas and get a new health of the laptop.

In personal computers, every possible problem can be seen by uncovering it. In the case of laptops, it is too risky to get it as the spares are sensitive and fragile as opposed to pc. You have to hire the pros to solve hardware issues, LCD screen, motherboard, power problems, RAM memory, hard drive, OS up-gradation etc.

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