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- Depending on your computer, your hard drive (where your data is stored) can be made of a series of spinning discs with a read/write head (like a record on a record player). Thus, transporting or moving your laptop while powered on can cause corruption to the hard drive (analogous to a record scratch).
- To avoid long boot-up times, you can also put your computer into Sleep, Standby, or Hibernate modes.
- Any time your computer is not running as smoothly as it used to, make sure the first thing you try is power cycling the machine.
- As convenient as having your computer come up quickly can be, sometimes it will need a rest as well. It won't hurt the machine to be put to sleep a couple of times in a row, but if something pressing isn't required within a short period of time, we'd suggest to simply shut it down fully.
Step Three: Screens and Keyboards
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Professionally known as portable computers, the term "laptop" can be deceiving. Most of the circulation for the computer to cool itself is located to the back, sides, and bottoms of the machine. When you use your computer on your lap or on a soft surface like a bed or pillow, you can obstruct the ventilation causing the computer to overheat. This can easily be resolved by using the computer on a flat surface like a table or desk, or even on a specially made lap desk that is designed to support airflow to the computer. |
Step Five: Backup Data Regularly
Backup your data regularly and backup important files to multiple locations.
- Hard drive failure is difficult to predict and may even occur within the first few months of computer ownership
- Develop a strategy for backing up your data regularly, suggestions are available at answers.syr.edu for how to backup your data.
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- To have the best patches and security updates available, be sure to regularly update your computer, or better yet, turn on automatic updates for Windows and for /wiki/spaces/scpay101/pages/150382552
Step Eleven: Illegal Downloading
Avoid P2P software. Please refer to our File Sharing Policies.
- P2P, or "peer-to-peer" software, allows you to download files such as music, videos, TV shows, etc, is not allowed on our Networks.
- P2P programs often come bundled with adware or spyware.
- P2P downloads can sometimes be bogus files and may contain viruses.
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