Love your Laptop the same way you love your lovers Pt (2)

Handle any removable drives with care. Such as Floppy drives is rarely in used or CD drives that have been removed from your laptop can easily get crushed, dropped or pressed if you are ignorant. The best practice is to put them a bag or a storage box/case for safe keeping if you are not putting them back into the laptop.
Check to see if labels are affixed securely before inserting media into your laptop computer. Media such as CDs, DVDs or floppy disks should not have any loose label parts that might jam inside the laptop drive. Never insert undersized CDs, as these can damage the disk player permanently.
Don’t expose your laptop to rapid temperature fluctuations. When bringing your laptop indoors during winter, don’t turn it on immediately. Instead, let it warm to room temperature first. This will avoid any potential for damage to the disk drive from condensation forming inside the machine. Avoid heat from sunlight as well.

- Don’t leave your laptop in a car. Not only do the inside of cars experience large temperature swings that could damage a laptop, but a laptop (or laptop bag) is an inviting target for a smash and grab thief.
- Have the unit cleaned once a year to remove internal dust. Get this done by a trusted computer professional. If dust accumulates, the system cannot cool itself correctly. Heat can destroy the motherboard.
- Avoid placing heavy materials, such as books, on top of your laptop and keyboard. This can push the LCD screen into the keyboard, and will eventually damage it. Also, the CD-ROM insert will also be squished and, eventually, will break.
- Use a properly-sized laptop case. Whatever you use to carry your laptop around in, be it a case, a bag or something you have made yourself, make sure that it is large enough to contain the laptop. This will avoid scratching, squeezing or even potentially dropping it.
- Use and store in a well-circulated area. When you are using your laptop, do so in a place that has a constant air-circulation. Lots of people ruin their laptop by using it in an enclosed area and thus making it overheat. It also helps if you store it in a well circulated area.
- Use an old tooth brush to clean the area around the exhaust fan screen. If that gets plugged up, air flow is diminished and overheating can most certainly occur.
- Try and keep the laptop on a flat surface such as table, desk etc. This prevents damage to the laptop. This step can be hard, particularly if you are going out with your laptop, but if there is a flat surface available to put your laptop on then please do so.
Many laptop owners feel more comfortable using their laptop on the bed, please, ou have to stop this attitude. It causes the fans to suck up the dust and further debris which lies in the bed, ultimately blocking the fan. Refrain from this by using the laptop somewhere else than the bed.