9 Tips to Maintain Your Laptop or Notebook

Many people often make mistakes in maintaining a laptop, so the laptop gets damaged. Here are tips on maintaining a laptop or notebook:

1. Do not put the notebook on a soft surface like a chair made of foam, bed and carpet. Because, it will inhibit the flow of air at the bottom of the notebook, and can cause overheating.

2. If you download software from the Internet, do not be careless. Use genuine software from the l notebook. However, if you want to use the software from the Internet, make sure you scan with antivirus software.

3. Do not put the notebook on the floor, because your kids can step on the notebook. In addition, it will be quick dirty with dust.

4. Use an electric stabilizer. You must use a stabilizer if you use the notebook without the battery, it can prevent the occurrence of voltage instability.

5. Do not place any objects between the keyboard and laptop screen. Put objects between the keyboard and laptop screen is very dangerous, because the risk of scratches on the screen. Obviously, you do not want to replace a laptop screen that just scratched.

6. You must be careful to bring a laptop with a bag. Laptop bag is not just any bag. Use, specifically bags for laptops, so the other objects do not scratch certain parts on laptops.

7. Do not put a drink around the laptop. This is dangerous, because the laptop is very sensitive to the liquid, if the liquid spilled into the keyboard, it can cause serious damage.

8. Never try to disassemble a laptop. This is a very unwise action. Laptops are not like a radio or tape recorder. Many parts of the laptop are very small, using precision machinery. If you are careless, then your laptop could be damaged.

9. Do not put your laptop in hot areas like the sun at noon.

Recondition Your Laptop Battery - It's As Easy As 1,2,3

If you have a laptop computer, do not expect your battery to last forever. They have a life span that can be measured mostly by how may times you charge it up. Generally it is about 300 to 500 times if you have a lithium-ion battery.

With these batteries you can recharge them at any time, even if they are not dead yet. They do not suffer from memory effect like the NiCad batteries do. With NiCad's, you need to let them fully discharge before you recharge them or they will lose there ability to take a full charge.

If you want to recondition the battery in your laptop, here is what you can do for NiMH and NiCad batteries, do not recondition Lithium-ion. This will not make them like a brand new battery but it will extend its life. First thing is fully charge the battery in the computer. When completed restart the computer.

Now you want to discharge the battery. If you disable the hibernation setting or anything else that might make the computer go into power saving mode, it would be better. Let the computer run until it shuts down due to loss of battery power, then turn it back on.

Recharge the battery to full again and repeat the above steps a few more times. This will allow you to use the battery for a longer time and you can do this no more than once a month. Replacement batteries can be expensive and stretching out their use when you are on a budget can help.

Optimize Internet Explorer

In this age of information technology it’s the internet that has truly brought about globalization. Much depends on the internet; after all it connects us all across the globe. And it is the web browser that takes us through various websites across the internet. Now for a better surfing experience, besides a good internet connection, you need to have a better web browser as well. Now the question is, how to make your web browser perform well? There are certain ways to do it. Get some tech support to explore those.

So with a fast internet connection, we need a good web browser for optimum performance. Here we would discuss ways to optimize Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE).

Nowadays IE7 are mostly used with IE8 being the latest in line.

Delete Temporary Internet Files Regularly

You need to delete the cached data in Internet Explorer regularly. IE stores the visited list of websites in “temporary internet files” for faster viewing later. You can specify the number of days that you want to store these files in the History for. This data is called the cached data in Internet Explorer and this should be deleted regularly for better performance. Get the help desk support to learn how you can do it:

IE7:

● Open internet explorer 7.
● Click “tools” and then click “delete browsing history”.
● In “delete browsing history”, click “delete all”.
● Click to select the “Also delete files and settings stored by add-ons” check box, and then click OK.

IE8:

● Open Internet Explorer 8.
● Click “Safety”, and then click “Delete Browsing History”.
● In “Delete Browsing History” area, click Delete.

Internet Explorer has security settings that blocks unwanted websites. But if the security is configured to be too restrictive then it can block a lot of desired sites also. Hence there should always be default security settings and this is how we do it:

● Open Internet Explorer.
● Click “Tools”, and then click “Internet Options”.
● Click the “Security” tab.
● Click “Reset all zones to default level” and then click OK.

Internet Explorer add-ons such as ActiveX controls and browser toolbars are used by some websites to provide an enhanced browsing experience. An error may occur if an add-on is damaged or if an add-on conflicts with Internet Explorer. To determine whether the error is caused by an add-on, run Internet Explorer in "No Add-Ons" mode. To do this, follow these steps:

● Click Start, and then type Internet Explorer in the Start Search box.
● Click Internet Explorer (No Add-Ons). Internet Explorer opens without add-ons, toolbars, or plug-ins.

Generally these are some of the steps needed for good IE performance. However, if these do not work, then the last option is to reset your Internet Explorer.

For IE7 and IE8:

● Go to “tools” then click “internet options”.
● Go to the “advanced” tab and click on “reset”.