How to Take Good Care of Your Laptop Computer?

Answer 1

It is important to take care of your laptop to keep it in good shape; prevention is always better than cure. There are a number of easy things that you can do to keep your laptop in great shape; following these easy steps will help to ensure that it lasts longer and will need less maintenance. As an added bonus, many of the steps will also maintain your laptop's speed.


Steps

1. Keep liquids away from your laptop. As tempting as it might be to drink coffee, soda or any other liquid near your laptop, accidents can happen all too easily. Spilled liquids may damage the internal components or cause electrical injury to the laptop. Short circuits can corrupt data or even permanently destroy parts. The solution is very simple: Keep your drinks away from your computer. Even if you're careful, someone else might bump into your desk or you.
2. Keep food away from your laptop. Don't eat over your laptop. The crumbs can go down between the keys in the keyboard and provide an invitation to small bugs. The crumbs can also irritate the circuitry. Worse, it makes the laptop look dirty if there are crumbs and food stains on it.
3. Always have clean hands when using your laptop. Clean hands make it easier to use your laptop touchpad and there will be less risk of leaving dirt and other stains on the computer. In addition, if you clean your hands before use, you will help reduce wear and tear on the coating of the laptop caused by contact with sweat and small particles that can act upon the laptop's exterior underneath your wrists and fingers.
4. Protect the LCD display monitor. When you shut your laptop, make sure there are no small items, such as a pencil or small ear-phones, on the keyboard. These can damage the display screen when shut; the screen will scratch if the item is rough.
5. Hold and lift the computer by its base, not by its LCD display (the screen). If you lift it by the screen part alone, you could damage the display or the hinges attaching it to the base. The display is also easily scratched or damaged by direct pressure – avoid placing pressure on it.
6. Don't pull on the power cord. Tugging your power cord out from the power socket rather than putting your hand directly on the plug in the socket and pulling can break off the plug or damage the power socket. Also, if you have the power point near your feet, avoid constantly bumping into the plug or you could loosen it and eventually break it.
7. Don't roll your chair over the computer cord. Stick the cord onto your desk with tape or a special computer cord tie which can be easily undone when you've finished using the laptop. Always try to keep most of the cord away from the floor or your legs; sometimes you can be so engrossed in what you're doing that you move your legs and forget the cord is there.
8. Plug in accessory devices into their proper slots. Always look at the symbols on the laptop carefully before inserting devices. Jamming a phone line into an Ethernet port or vice versa could damage the sockets, making it impossible to use them again. It is very important to observe this step.
9. Handle any removable drives with care. Floppy drives or CD drives that have been removed from your laptop can easily get crushed, dropped or pressed if you are careless. Put them straight into a bag or a storage box/case for safe keeping if you are not putting them back into the laptop.
10. Insert drives into their slots carefully and at the correct angle. Pushing the wrong drive into a socket, or at an angle, or even upside down can jam it.
11. Check to see if labels are affixed securely before inserting media into your laptop computer. Media such as CDs, DVDs or floppy disks should not have any loose label parts that might jam inside the laptop drive. Never insert undersized CDs, as these can damage the disk player permanently.
12. Don't expose your laptop to rapid temperature fluctuations. When bringing your laptop indoors during winter, don't turn it on immediately. Instead, let it warm to room temperature first. This will avoid any potential for damage to the disk drive from condensation forming inside the machine.
13. Have the unit cleaned once a year to remove internal dust. Get this done by a computer professional. If dust accumulates, the system cannot cool itself correctly. Heat can destroy the motherboard.
14. Use a properly-sized laptop case. Whatever you use to carry your laptop around in, be it a case, a bag or something you have made yourself, make sure that it it large enough to contain the laptop. This will avoid scratching, squeezing or even potentially dropping it.


Tips

* Develop a preventive maintenance schedule to prevent problems rather than fixing them after they happen.
* Keep a record of your laptop computer details, such as serial number, make and model so that you can report theft or loss promptly.
* If you are working, you may have an opportunity to choose your laptop computer based on your requirements - for example, a sturdy model for rough use and a light one for frequent travel.
* You can make an easy screen protector from a thin piece of floppy foam cut the size of your screen. Place this between the base and top of your laptop each time that you turn off the laptop and close it. Do not leave it in there if the laptop is only sleeping or is not turned off. If the laptop overheats, this foam may cause the laptop to combust.
* You can make your own laptop case simply using items such as 2 pieces of cardboard joined together with strong tape and insert bubble wrap, or even a pillow slip, in between the cardboard. Make sure you get the measurements accurate! Or recycle an old bag - pad it well and size it down to fit your laptop securely.
* Look into laptop insurance. Look for sites on the internet but beware the "Zero excess" or "no excess" claim of a few.


Warnings

* Be aware of the "no excess" or "zero excess" of some laptop insurance companies; while it appears to be free of excess, you may have to pay again for the year in full to restart your insurance after a claim.

Answer 2

1) Purchase a Laptop case/bag. Dropping the laptop while carrying it from places to places is bad. Also puts you out of your warranty.

2) Do not get crumbs into the keyboard area. They can cause sticky keys which will cause you to press the keys down harder and inevitable damaging the keyboard circuit board.

3) Make sure the battery fully charged before you use it for a long period of time between charges and fully use the battery to a certain extent. Even though some batteries come with a "No Memory Effect" Sticker on them. Over time, they will inevitable develop the "Memory Effect" (Means from where you charged em, it will mark it as if it was the end of the batter life, thus making your battery capacity smaller)

4) You should purchase an attachable mouse. Depending on what type of mouse you get, you can save or lose battery life. Those touch pads/track balls do not last forever.

5) Give it lots of TLC.

Answer 3

Following are the tips :

Do not place on uneven or unstable
work surfaces. Seek servicing if the casing
has been damaged.

Do not expose to or use near
liquids, rain, or moisture. Do
not use the modem during an
electrical storm.

Do not place or drop objects on top
and do not shove any foreign objects into
the Notebook PC.

Do not expose to dirty or dusty
environments. Do not operate
during a gas leak.

Do not press or touch the display panel.
Do not place together with small items that
may scratch or enter the Notebook PC.

Do not expose to extreme temperatures
above 50°C (122°F) or to direct
sunlight. Do not block the fan vents!

Do not expose to strong magnetic or
electrical fields.

Do not expose to extreme temperatures
(below 0°C (32°F), otherwise
the Notebook PC may not boot.

Do not throw batteries in fires as they may explode. Check local codes for special battery disposal
instructions.

Disconnect the AC power and remove the battery pack before cleaning.
Wipe the laptop using a clean cellulose sponge or chamois cloth dampened with a solution of nonabrasive detergent and a few drops of warm water and remove any extra moisture with a dry cloth.

Answer 4

The vents for cooling the processor are generally underneath the computer, try to avoid setting it on cloth as this may burn up your computer. Try setting it on a hard surface to allow good circulation.
Try to cycle the battery at least once a month, leave the computer on until the battery dies, then let it completely charge, this will increase the life of your battery.
Try to take it in after 6 months to have the dust blown out of the processors heat sink, I have so many computers come to me with the problem of "shutting down for no reason", and all they needed was the heat sink to be cleaned off with some compressed gas, but this can be difficult to get to on some laptops.....
And the most common cause for laptops meeting their maker, spilled beverages! We are known for trying to multi task, and with this type of device its common to hear stories of coffee and soda destroying them.

Answer 5

take out the batteries when you are not gonna use it for a prolonged period. This will help keep the battery in tip top condition

Answer 6

dont spill anything on it, dont leave it on the floor next to your bed because u might step on it the next morning (hapened to me), ect.