Keep your computer always 'healthy'

Tips to help you extend "life" for computers, an energy saving tool and two really interesting websites.

A network administrator who always makes friends with computers regardless of the day and night advises that RAM, CPU and hard drive may be affected if you turn on / off too many times a day. But will it always turn on only once in the morning and just turn off the machine at night when everything is done is a good solution?

This question is still controversial. If you only turn off the device at night, for those with up to two monitors, three hard drives, make sure the device in your device will consume all the power at the place you work or at your home, even if you've set it up. set up power saving mode.

And there are a number of other important reasons that you should turn off your device like you have to go outside for a few hours. What happens if you leave the open device still at home ?. Maybe there is a short circuit or an accident?

Free tool to help you save power

There are some free tools to help you save power like UniBlue's Local Cooling. This downloadable software provides you with an easy way to control the power consumption of a personal computer. Each time you use it, you can set the function to turn off the screen, reduce the speed of hard drive rotation and set the "hibernate" mode (hibernate) for the computer after a certain period of time.

Surely you will be delighted to see the total amount of electricity you save. After a short period of time you can reduce 0.139 "trees"; nearly 5 liters of gas and 2.63 KW of electricity. As a result, there were 11,000 people using this software and they were completely satisfied.

Suppose, the amount of electricity saved is insignificant, but it makes you think about saving thoughts in your head and can help reduce many other unnecessary costs, increase the life of the machine.

Clean and arrange computer neatly

You will not save a lot of energy in cleaning devices inside your computer. But the machine life will be greatly enhanced when it helps "the interior" get rid of the obnoxious dust (in the technique called "schmutz"). Mostly dust is on the fan and CPU cooling fan.

Clean the keyboard

The keyboard is the easiest place to stick to dust, sometimes there are bread crumbs or some other "unknown" objects. To get rid of them, take it out, use a small brush and a damp cloth . You can refer to the detailed keyboard cleaning guide introduced by TipsMake.com before.

Clean the screen

With the screen, you can do the following:

1. To clean, gently wipe the LCD screen with a soft, dry cloth, without leaving the fiber after it has been cleaned.
2. If the screen has stains, moisten the cloth in a water-mixing isopropy alcohol solution (50/50).
3. Wipe the cloth that has been moistened in the solution, not dropping any water droplets onto the computer.
4. Let the LCD screen dry before closing the lid.