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Monday, March 19, 2012

10 Tips to Make Your Laptop Last Longer


1. Be Careful Plugging In Your DC Jack
You need to be gentle when plugging in your computer. If excessive force is applied to the jack, the solder joints connecting the jack to the motherboard can crack.And don’t apply too much force, don’t use a cheap after-market charger. The more you use a laptop with a loose jack, the looser it becomes and the more you risk destroying both the charger and the motherboard.

2. Clean Your Cooling System With Compressed Air
You must have  a bottle of compressed air and blow the dust out of your fan and heat sink once a month because Laptop heat sinks are very fine and get cloaked with dust easily. If you can’t figure out how to open the case, call the manufacturer. Most help desks will be more than happy to tell you how to open the case for maintenance, even if your warranty or support plan is up.

3.Don’t Use Your Laptop In Bed
If should always avoid using a laptop that’s lying on a bed or sofa, then please do because When you put your laptop on soft material, you block the ventilation holes in the bottom and the laptop can’t suck in air for cooling.
Laptop should be kept on a hard surface such as a table or computer mat and that there is space between the bottom of the computer and the surface so that air can travel under the computer.

4. Consider a Cooling Pad
Avoid overheating at all times. The lower the temperature of your laptop, the longer it will live. Because the importance of keeping the laptop’s temperature low is better instead of getting it overheated will be a huge cause of laptop failure.

5. Get CCleaner, Use CCleaner
Download CCleaner for Mac and PC. Every second you spend on your computer doing even simple things, the computer is working hard. That means it can get clogged with temporary files, history, cookies, etc. You can clean the computer and the registry with this very useful tool.

6. Don’t Drink And Surf
You should have any sort of liquids near your laptop.and Don’t drink close to your computer, don’t eat close to your computer. Even if you are careful in handling the liquid,  yet it could seriously fry your electronics.

7. Manage Your Battery Life
Drain the laptop’s battery all the way occasionally, should be drained completely at least once a month. Don’t keep the laptop charged all the time, as this can reduce battery life in the long run.

8. Get Anti-Virus Software
Fortunately, there are plenty of free anti-virus programs recommended: Avira, AVG, Kaspersky etc.

9. Download Those Windows Updates
You should always update your window atleast, Once a week Microsoft releases updates to its operating system, and often those fixes are critical to your security. In Windows 7, simply click on “Start,” type in “Windows Update” and click on the first result to be taken to the Windows Updater.

10. Clean Your Screen Correctly :
You should take two tissues, one with a touch of H2O and one dry. Wipe your screen with the wet one and then the dry one, to clean completely and soak up any water drops on the screen. Even better, use only approved LCD cleaners to keep your screen shiny, new and scratch-free.


Good Luck !!!



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