Some easy ways to clean up your laptop

Clean up your laptop - Our laptops and computers have become an integral part of our daily lives. We use these electronic devices for various purposes. We make use of it for our Office work, personal entertainment, and browsing the internet. Like every electronic device, these laptops tends to become slower over the course of our use. There are various reasons for your laptop or computer to become slow over time.

The main reason being, no proper maintenance and of course many other different factors. In this article, I will discuss various methods to clean up your laptop computer and make it run smoothly In order to elongate the life duration of these electronic products one needs to be careful about certain Do’s and Don’ts. We have to take care of both the hardware components as well as software components in your laptop to make sure it does not trouble you while you are working with it. So follow these methods carefully:

Clean Up your Hardware

This is the first yet very important part in making your laptop free from all physical and software issues. First, make sure you have a clean piece of cloth and a good spraying cleaner. Pour some cleaner over the cloth and wipe out all visible dust from your laptop screen, mouse pad, speakers, webcam. Make sure everything has been cleaned properly. While using your laptop make sure that you never spill any liquid into it, as this may permanently damage the motherboard. Clean the peripheral devices connected to your laptop like Printer or scanner as well.

Arrange your wired connection Neatly

We all know how frustrating and clumsy it can get in a house with ;loads of wire lying around. These wires may get tangled in someone's feet or get broken from sudden impact. So in order to keep your house clean and avoid any minor accidents. Make sure you arrange your wiring well. In order to do so, user clippers on your desk to keep them stacked neatly. There are plenty of others cheap equipment available to help you ease up the work.

Keep your System Up-To-Date

After cleaning up your laptop from outside and arranging the wiring of the system neatly, let us focus on the interiors of your laptop. Your software is a combination of different hardware components along with number of software programs to keep it running. These software program are vulnerable of getting out-dated, corrupted or may misbehave if not maintained carefully.

So in order to make sure your device keep up the workflow smooth, make sure to update its software directory for different application from time-to-time. Since it is not easy to keep a track on hundreds of programs running your computer, it is advisable to install a third-party application program to keep you notified on available updates for your software. Keeping your device updated will not impact its performance.

Uninstall Unnecessary Applications

We tend to get influenced by others and downloads loads of programs and applications which we hardly use. Every program in your computer system takes up some memory in the processor. Due to loads of unnecessary programs running at the same time, your laptop might be slow, hang or even freeze.

So make sure to download only those application which you need in your day-to-day use. Filling up your laptop with loads of applications will make it slow. Go to the “msconfig” options and uncheck programs which you do not use, this will decrease the boot up time of your computer and also give a major boost in performance.

Clean your Hard Drive Space

The modern-day computers come up with loads of memory and thus we keep piling up data without bothering about space. You might not be aware of it, but if your hard drive is filled with loads of useless stuff which you do not use that frequently, then it will impact upon the performance of your laptop.

So in order to make your laptop run quicker, make sure to delete unnecessary files from your hard drive. It will not only free up space but also boost the performance of your laptop. If you cannot decide upon which files to delete, make use of optimization and utility application Cleanup, PC cleaner etc. These applications will help you decide which files to delete and which ones to keep.

Keep Your Antivirus Program turned on and Up-to-date

 

Antivirus programs help you maintain the security of your computer’s data from online theft and misuse. It also protect your laptop against unwanted virus and spywares. These software programs help you maintain your data properly. So make sure to keep your antivirus program up and running all the time. Also, update it regularly as viruses are created every day.

Make A Backup Of your system

The electronic media for sure has made our lives a lot easier, but it has its shortcomings too. So in order to keep your data on laptop safe and secure against any software failures, make sure you create a backup of your data every 30 days. This not only help you protect your data in case of emergency but also help you boost your computer’s performance. The laptop can make use of the data backup anytime things starts going downhill. So make sure you backup your data regularly at timely intervals.

Install a fresh OS

If your laptop’s performance does not improve upon following these steps, then chances are it might be facing some internal software conflicts. For these kind of situation, we recommend the user to install a fresh copy of the Operating System to wipe out all issues related to the previous version. Installing a fresh copy of OS is not a tough task, but certain aspects should always be considered beforehand.

Use the data backup of your previous version to get all your data back. Also, always keep your system files in one place and separate the drive from others. Generally, C drive is configured with the OS, so make sure all third-party programs are installed in the same drive as well. This will help your laptop to keep your system files away from any bad type file system. These are some of the simple methods to keep your laptop device clean from inside as well as outside.