23 Best Laptop Safety Tips

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1 Laptop Safety Tips:

1.1 1. Dont Use Unauthorized Software and Pirated Operating

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1.2 2. Use of Antivirus is Must and Should:

1.3 3. Never Keep Laptop in Damped Surface:

1.4 4. Charging and Discharging of Battery:

1.5 5. Take Care of Power Fluctuations:

1.6 6. Never Keep the Laptop on Your Laps While Working:

1.7 7. Take Care of Hinges of Your Laptop:

1.8 8. Clean the Laptop Once in a Week:

1.9 9. Use Laptop Bag for Taking the Laptop Outside:

1.10 10. Use power Optimization Software:

Computers have become the part of our daily life. We cannot imagine our day
without computer. Not only software developing people but also the people
from hardware developing, construction, designing, call centers, education,
management, even in farming also computer has become a revolution. On the
other hand, laptops are now replacing desktops. Laptops usage is getting
increased day by day. But we often listen the complaints like desktops are still
better and laptops are not reliable. Laptops are sensitive when we compared
to desktops. Laptop parts and components are small and sensitive to
overheat. Most of laptop users have no idea about the precautionary measure
and using them. As a result, will cause some severe problems to their health
and also damage the laptops.

Here are some of the important tips to know about how to maintain the laptops
and how to use the laptops in proper.

Laptop Safety Tips:

1. Dont Use Unauthorized Software and Pirated
Operating Systems:
If you got a branded new laptop with official OS, please make a copy of that
immediately. If you didnt purchase a official OS, you want to use a pirated
one. Make sure that pirated copy doesnt have any virus, worms or any
Trojans. Be careful with the drivers and download drivers from official website
only. Do not use drivers downloaded from non-official site. For example, here
is a situation. If you want to load windows XP, you got almost all the drivers
and you didnt get the WIFI driver. So normally people search in Google and
download some drivers and try to use the WIFI, but this is completely wrong,
for this you need to first find out the company name of your WIFI driver and go
to that company or firm official website and you can download driver from that
website. Using an authorized driver will be virus free and chances of system
crashing will be almost zero. If you use unauthorized software or drivers, upto
99.99% there will be a virus and significant chances of crashing and data loss
in your system. There are lot of softwares which will give complete hardware
information of your laptops.

2. Use of Antivirus is Must and Should:

Original antivirus should be used and updating the antivirus is also very
important. You may get malicious softwares and spam message from internet
everyday. Updated antivirus can only stop the virus attacks. For basic use,
you can download antivirus for free from the corresponding antivirus official
website. No need to pay single penny and updates are also completely free. If
you need to buy the professional and extra featured antivirus, you can get it in
less than 1000 rupees or 20 dollars.
The above tips are for maintaining the software from crashing or data loss.

3. Never Keep Laptop in Damped Surface:

Desktops or laptops need ventilation for cooling purpose. Generally,
processors will get heated up quickly and start the heat dissipation. Not only

processors, but some other components also will get heated up quickly and
start dissipates heat which is very dangerous for the some electronic
components. We know that electronic components need optimal temperature
for their 100% throughput. If there is heat which is more than there
sustainability then there is chance of damaging the components, which will
affect the working of laptop. Laptops must never kept on pillows, beds, car
seats etc. Laptops must be on hard and flat surface where ventilation should
be there and air should flow in and out. If needed, use cooling pads which is
best option while using the laptop.

4. Charging and Discharging of Battery:

This is very important tip. If you charged your laptop for two hours, use at
least one hour for discharging the battery. If your battery has gone below the
threshold point or it says still remaining 25% or 30% then again charge the
battery. If we proceed in this way, battery life will be long and usage time will
not be decreased. If you continuously keep charging and using the laptop, the
battery life will go down and usage time will also be decreased.

5. Take Care of Power Fluctuations:

Constant power supply with no fluctuations is very important. Not only for
laptops but for any electronic devices to work efficiently, constant power
supply without any fluctuations is very important. Use a stabilizer or always
use a surge protector. When power cable is given to power outlet, it will help to
give constant power supply without any fluctuations. If you are using the
extension box, make sure that it has fuse and three pin plugs. And another
important point to be noted is that for any house, home or office, it should
have earth connection for power supply.

6. Never Keep the Laptop on Your Laps While Working:

Dont keep laptops on your laps and while doing the work. It will affect your
reproductive organs for both male and female. It will decrease the sperm
count. Mortality rate of sperms will also be decreased due to the heat
produced by the laptops when we keep the laptop on our laps.

7. Take Care of Hinges of Your Laptop:

Take care of hinges of your laptop while closing and opening it. If we use the
branded and new laptop, then hinges will be strong. If the days are passing
away, hinges will become hard due to dust, rust and some other reasons and
you need to use more power to open the laptop. Sometimes, you may not be
able to hold the lid plastic (or screen) while opening hinges and it will cause
them to break. So if you realize that it is taking more power to open the laptop
lid or screen, oil them immediately. If you dont know how to oil them take any
experts help.

8. Clean the Laptop Once in a Week:

Laptops should be cleaned atleast once in a week. Cleaning the dust in key
board, hinges, screen is very important to keep our laptop safely. Dont use
water for cleaning; use dry soft cotton cloth for cleaning the laptop. Do not
spray the cleaning liquid directly on your laptop screen. It may damage your
screen when liquid go in to the sides of the screen. First spray the cleaning
liquid on a cotton cloth then clean the screen.

9. Use Laptop Bag for Taking the Laptop Outside:

Dont use normal bags for taking the laptops outside. Use the laptop bags
which are available in market. They are especially made for laptops. These
laptop bags have holders which hold the laptops from jerks and keep the
laptop tightly. If you are using normal bags for laptops, they will not have any
holders and causes jerks which may affect the hardware components in
laptops.

10. Use power Optimization Software:

Power optimization software will monitor and change the settings of the laptop
like screen setting, brightness settings, battery settings and many more
according to the use of laptop and situation. It will keep the normal settings
when we use the laptop with power and will change to optimized settings
when we are out of power and when the laptop is running out of power. Using

this software, we can increase the battery and usage time of our laptop. And
battery usage will be exact.
11. Make sure that laptops are away from children.
11. Try to avoid keeping liquids near to laptops and also avoid drinking tea
or coffee when you are using laptop on your lap.
11. Always use an anti glair glasses while using the laptop.
11. Dont use laptop while you are walking or traveling on uneven roads. Too
much jerk while using the laptops will affect the main components like
harddisk, processors, etc.
11. Use passwords from unauthorized access.
11. Use good quality transparent screen savers for your laptop and let it
pasted on the LED. It will make it safe from any kind of scratches.
11. Dont keep heavy things on your laptops. It may damage the screen.
Better not to keep anything on laptops.
11. Shutdown your laptop at least for two hours daily. Dont run them
continuously and give rest for small period of time at regular intervals.
11. Never use laptop in wet and cool climate conditions or places. It may
cause overloading and over heating. Rapid change in temperature will
also cause fatal errors in the laptops.
11. Check the laptop battery periodically. If the battery backup is not good
then immediately replace it with new battery. Otherwise, the faulty
battery may cause explosion and fire.
11. Do not keep the laptop on floors as some one may step on it
accidentally.
11. Dont keep anything in between screen and keyboard when it is closed.
It may cause for damage to the screen.

11. It is better to shutdown the laptop when not in use and while traveling
otherwise it generates lot of heat.
I think these tips are enough for maintaining your laptop. Dont use laptop to
rough, handle them with little care. These tips are same for even to maintain
desktop computers also. Luckily we still didnt got servers to maintain, in that
the list will be somewhat big and complicated.