If you keep up with monthly maintenance of your laptop, it should last longer and help you be more productive. About.com offers these 5 tips for upkeep:
- Clean your hard drive. It's easy to accumulate a lot of unnecessary files on your laptop hard drive. Take the time once a month to go through your hard drive and examine the files. Get rid of what you don't need.
- Defrag your hard drive. This should prevent crashes or freeze-ups and help programs to run more smoothly.
- Clean your laptop. Keeping dust and dirt from building up inside the fans helps prevent overheating. Also make sure your case if dust and dirt free.
- Full back-up. There are a variety of available software and hardware options. Choose the one that is not a big hassle so you can keep up with it monthly.
- Software updates. Just as you keep up with anti-virus and firewall software up-to-date, you should keep software updated. The updates will address security issues which help keep your data protected.
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