Laptop Care

Your laptop is attached to you most of the time. Love/hate relationship. You take it everywhere. It’s your traveling lifeline and workstation – and access to Facebook and other social scenes. Don’t let anything bad happen to it. Caring for it is easy if you follow a few easy steps.

• Never pick your laptop up by its monitor/screen
• Don’t roll over the power cord with your office chair. Tape the cord to your desk or to the wall.
• Have your laptop professionally cleaned once a year to remove internal dust.
• Avoid using your laptop in bed. It will suck up dust and lint, possibly blocking the fan. And it’s not into “cuddling.”
• Keep food and liquids away from your laptop. It’s just a matter of time before you dump a piping hot Americano on the keyboard. If you do spill, shut it off and unplug from its power source.
• Virus and spyware software is a good investment.
• Run a defragmentation program.
• Back up your hard drive externally, just in case.
• Do NOT use cleaners, such as Windex, that contain ethyl alcohol, ammonia, acetone, ethyl acid or methyl chloride to clean your monitor.
• Never use bubble gum to keep your laptop shut.