Best Laptop Maintenance Tips

In present days laptops and Notebooks are widely used.This is because the costs of laptops and notebooks are very much reduced in comparing with earlier days. So anyone is committed to buy a system they always prefer laptop instead of computer desktops. The main advantage of laptops are portability.  They occupy less space and less power. According to these features so many people prefer laptops. Up to this there is no problem at all.The problem arises while maintaining the laptop properly. Here i suggest some tips & techniques to maintain laptop effectively and efficiently.
                    Actually the problem arises in the following areas.Maintaining a laptop contains two types. one is External maintenance and second one is Internal maintenance.

External maintanence

• Charging
• Heat
• New Hardware Attachments
• Cleaning
• Usage
• Avoid Drinks
• Use Screen Guard

Internal Maintenance :

• Use Updated Antivirus
• Create System restore points
• Backup your files.

CHARGING:

                   Charging is the first and the main thing to maintain a laptop effectively. Because the whole system is runs on the power provided to it. In order to put charging to your laptop we must be careful with it. Every time you using the laptop first observe the battery level.If it is below 10% put your charger and if your battery level is above 10% there is no need to plug the charger If at all the battery indicator is shown.Some people are always connects the charger with laptop.This is not the correct way. You are continue in this way then after a month or two months the battery performance will be degraded and the laptop is fully depend upon the power only. The battery might not work properly.The best practice is discharge your laptop battery for every 3 days. Finally on thing is always use earth enabled sockets to charging.

HEAT:

                Heat is one of the dangerous issue to the laptop. Heat is causing to system crash. Due to over heat some circuits are burnt and physical damage is occurred. SO avoid over heat and keep it cool.For this you need to use some cooling resources like cooler pad.This is the only solution for heating issues and do not runs lots of applications at a time. This may lead to over heat. Do not depend upon the cheapest and duplicate resources.If you depend on those you may loss your laptop which is very costly.So always use standard and guaranteed cooler pads.

NEW HARDWARE ATTACHMENTS:

               This is very  common issue as we think before we use new hardware like keyboards,scanners,mouse,printers etc.Here the problem is some hardware devices are not supported by some laptops and compatibility issues are arise.At the first time they will work properly. But some other time the external hardware are not working properly and at this time we may get blue screen error on the system. Which is dangerous to the laptop.To use any external hardware first of all read the specifications of the device.The specifications are like it is compatible to our model, our OS etc. All these information is available on the hardware manual. IS first of all thoroughly check all these compatibility issues before using this.

CLEANING:

               This is the best thing you mind to keep your laptop clean and green. Here i use “green” as a proverb.Don't mind that. First of all dust us the first enemy of your laptop.The dust is mainly appear on the keyboard, and it stuck on the gaps between the keys.After some days the keys are not working properly because the dust which is present under it.so to avoid this we should use some cleaning kits which contains brush,liquid, cloth. So use that brush to clean up the keyboard. Don’t try to remove the dust with hands because  keys are some more sensitive.So always use the cleaning kit. Use the liquid to clean the screen.

USAGE:

            Always use the laptop in a correct position.Don’t place it on unflatten surface. It doesn’t show the damage quickly.Slowly the parts will be damaged.The best practice is to use flat surfaces like tables, cooler pads and whatever it may be.But the matter here is flat surface. Do not place directly on the floor.Cooler pad is the best practice which reduces heat and as well as it is used as a flat surface.

AVOID DRINKS

             Drinking cool drinks, tea,coffee,  water in front of laptops are not a good thing. Because if the drinks are spill in the keyboard the liquids will go inside the body of laptop and this causes some parts may not work properly. So keep avoid drinking in front of the laptop.

USE SCREEN GUARD:

             To avoid some un expected scratches on the screen better to use screen guards. It may not give full protection about damage on the screen but i protects from scratches on the screen and it is helpful to avoid dust also on the screen.

INTERNAL MAINTENANE:

USE UPDATED ANTIVIRUS:

               This is the must because anti virus software with out Update is no use now a days. Because everyday lots of viruses are come from internet, pen drives and from some other resources. Almost all of the viruses are slow down your pc performance. Some viruses are steel your personnel data. So use standard antivirus and update it daily if possible or update every 3 days. Do not use the pirated software. Because this is the one way where viruses are attacked. Do not depend upon fake and pirated software.Offline updates are available here.

CREATE RESTORE POINTS:

              If at all the antivirus may not work properly and the system doesn’t start , then what we will do.  The solution is Create  restore points. The restore points are very helpful because if the system is crashed and the OS doesn’t load then simply call the restore point and use it. First of create restore point when the system is in good state. We may create one or more restore point as per our requirement.

BACKUP YOUR DATA:

              If you have any sensitive data on your laptop than it is better to do a backup of your important files into CD-ROM or some other extent. This is because we doesn’t know in which time the hard disk is damaged due to bad sectors.To clear bad sectors defrag your hard disk.This option is available in Start –> All Programmes –> Accessories –> Defragment. Any how you defrag your hard disk or not better to backup the sensitive data.To know the health of your hard disk try this software. Based on the results shown by this  software you can perform data backup.

Download : Sentinel Hard Disk Health Management