How To Protect Your Laptop From Damage

noreply@blogger.com (ahmedats2010) — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 14:40:00 +0000

"Protection is better than treatment", this wisdom doesn't applied only on human health but it is right also for his surroundings. Care for laptop like care for tooth. There are simple ways to protect your laptop before you lost it. Just read the following 10 steps of protection:

1. If you have an electrical power source, use the battery charger coming with your laptop and remove batteries especially if these batteries are full charged. Use the batteries only if you have not an electrical power source. Some companies like ASUS, SONY and TOSHIBA say "no problem if you use the battery charger in presence of full charged batteries" and other companies like HP says "you have to remove full charged batteries if you use the electrical power source you may lost your batteries".

2. Don't leave your laptop on Sleep or Hibernate status. In these two cases, only RAM's are stopped but the processor is operating continually. This may lower the performance of your laptop. If you want to close your laptop, terminate your running applications then shutdown your computer.

3. Pressing strongly on the touch pad lead to loss its sensitivity which is the main factor of its operation. Kindly, move your hand on the touch pad and use its right and left buttons to do your task. Also, don't press on the touch pad with dirty fingers and then clean the dirty area, this lead to loss another part of sensitivity which may damage your touch pad.

4. Moving the screen back and forward may damage the screen and affects the laptop hardware because the screen is connected to the main mother-board with precise joints, these joints will move with the screen moving.

5. Clean your laptop continuously to prevent accumulation of the dust inside it. Laptop has more vents for speakers, touch pad, and keyboard. You have to use the suitable cleaning liquids to clean the screen, don't use perfumes.

6. To keep the temperature of your laptop hardware in the safe range, let air go inside your laptop through its vents. Some users work with their computers on the bed or on their bodies, this will close the ventilation ports existing in the bottom of laptop and then damage the inner components.

7. The laptop fan is the most important cooling method of your laptop, observing the working of this fan keeps your computer cool continuously. You have to know if this fan is working properly or not and also if its sound is normal or not. You can download many programs that control and observe the working of the cooling fan to protect your laptop from damage. If you find the fan isn't working properly, this fan must be replaced immediately.

8. Leave a sufficient disk space of drive C (Operating System drive) for the operating system and installed applications. This space may be between 30 and 100 GB according to your operating system and application programs.

9. It is very important to install anti-virus program on your laptop to protect it against any dangerous attacks especially when you are connected to internet. Also, you have to update this anti-virus program periodically because these malicious viruses can reach to your private information and also destroy your laptop components.

10. Finally, you have to put your laptop in a special bag designed specially to protect laptop against scrabbles and scratches. These bags can also absorb shocks and falls.

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How To Protect Your Laptop From Damage