10 Tips on How to Maintain your Laptop

Now that you have your new laptop, how do you maintain it,what tips should you use to ensure that it serves you for the long haul? Maintaining a laptop is not rocket science. It only involves basic tips that if properly put to practice, can boost your laptop’s performance.

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These tips range from simple habits you need to maintain when using your laptop to system optimization and updates.  Whether using your laptop for work or for entertainment and leisure, you need a laptop that performs optimally at all times.

Nothing drains your energy at work like a slow or an unresponsive laptop! Here are the tips on how to maintain your laptop’s performance. Here is how to maintain your laptop

10 tips how to maintain your laptop

These are some of the ways of how to maintain your laptop

1. Clean your laptop regularly

Cleaning your laptop is the best habit of giving your machine’s hardware some TLC.  Dust, residue, and grime are the number one enemy to a laptop’s ‘wellbeing’.

• Focus on cleaning the surfaces ie screen and underside.
• Blow the vents to remove dust
• Blow the keyboard to remove food particles that may be stuck in between the keypads.

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2. Don’t eat or drink near your laptop

A cup of coffee or water near a laptop is a messy accident waiting to happen. Also, food particles like a rice grain stuck under your keypads render them unresponsive. Dirt on the keyboard may cause short circuits in the laptop.

There is nothing like a water-resistant laptop yet so take extra care when working with near water or liquids.

3. Use your laptop on a firm surface

Using your laptop on a shaky unstable surface is detrimental to the laptop’s hardware. Vibration and sudden movements may shorten the lifespan of your laptop.

• Invest in a steady workstation
• When traveling pack your laptop safely

4. Optimise the laptop drives

For the smooth running of the laptop, it is advisable to optimize the laptop’s drives on a weekly basis. Follow the steps on how to optimize drives below

 

1. Open This PC
2. Right Click Windows 
3. Select Properties
4. Click Tool then,
5. Check to check which drive is faulty
6. If the disk is faulty, Click Optimise

6. Plug peripherals with care

When plugging your flash disks, ethernet cables, VGA cables, headphones, and other accessories be gentle with the ports. Vigorous violent plugging damages the ports in the long run. You will incur costs replacing these parts.

7.   Shut down your laptop once in a few days

A laptop just like any other machine needs some time to cool off. After weeks of constant work, shut down your computer to enable this.

• Click Start button
• Click the Power icon
• Then click Shut Down 

8. Hold the laptop by its base

Holding the laptop by the screen alone or the keyboard may loosen the hinges holding the keyboard and the screen together. This will eventually affect the functionality of the screen and the keyboard.

9 . Avoid placing objects on the laptop.

Keeping your laptop closed is a good measure to prevent dirt, dust, residues, and foreign objects from getting into the laptop. However placing objects like phones, cups, and other heavy objects endanger the functionality of the screen in the long run.

10. Install laptop skins

Laptop skins protect the laptop’s chassis by cushioning it from direct impact in case it falls or is hit by other objects. Laptop skins are easy to install and won’t cost you much. Check how to apply skins here