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Preventive Maintenance of computers include cleaning the computer, hard drive maintenance, and making software updates. There are many materials used for cleaning laptops such as compressed air, mild cleaning solution, cotton swabs and soft lint-free cleaning cloth. The Exterior case, cooling vents, I/O ports, display, and keyboards should be cleaned every month. Disk cleanup and Disk defragmenter must be done as part of software maintenance. To run disk cleanup for a XP Operating System use : Start > All Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Disk Cleanup -select files to delete and click ok. To Run Disk Cleanup Vista: Select the hard drive that you want to clean Right click and choose properties On the general tab click disk cleanup Choose which files to cleanup - my files only or files from all users on this computer - mark files to delete and press ok To run Disk Defragmenter: Select the hard drive you want to clean Right click and choose properties On...

Degaussing is the process of decreasing or eliminating a remnant magnetic field. It is possibly named after the Gauss unit of magnetism, which in turn is named after Carl Friedrich Gauss Degaussing a computer monitor clears electromagnetic buildup from the screen. Although it is hardly ever necessary, degaussing can sometimes slightly improve picture quality. Ways to Degauss Your Computer Monitor: --------------------------------------------------- Simply turn the monitor off and turn it back on. Most modern monitors degauss themselves automatically each time they are powered on. When the monitor is turned on, you should hear a distinctive "dwoing" sound. If you hear no sound when you turn the unit on, it may not degauss itself automatically. If that is the case, proceed to the next step. Look for a button labeled DEGAUSS. This may be combined on an EXIT button. Otherwise, locate the menu button on the front of the monitor. Bring up the...

Suppose you buy a new device. You must connect it to the computer either with power ON or power OFF. Each device has a different power supply need and will be recognized only if connected in the proper format.  Let us look at few devices and how we need to connect them. Many of the removable storage devices are hot swappable. This means that you can insert and remove the device with the system powered on. Most USB-attached devices without a file system fall into this category. On the other hand, non-hot-swappable devices either cannot have the system's power applied when inserting or removing them or they have some sort of additional conditions for their insertion or removal. One subset is occasionally referred to as cold-swappable, the other as warm swappable. Cold-swappable devices must have the system power off before you can insert or remove them. An example of a cold-swappable device is anything connected to the PS/2-stylemini- DIN connector, such as a keyboard or mo...