Tips for maintaining your personal computer

• Preventative maintenance is best.
• PC enemy No. 1: food and drinks. Keep them away from your computer.

Keyboards

• keyboards gather dust. Gently vacuum or blow out with compressed air.
• keys can be wiped gently with a damp cloth.

Split liquids on keyboards

• Turn off the computer and unplug the keyboard.
• Do not turn the keyboard upside down as liquid may seep into the circuit board.
• Tilt the keyboard slightly to allow the liquid to run off.
• Do not use heat to dry the keyboard as the circuit board may crack inside the case.
• Plug the keyboard back in before turning the computer back on

Foreign objects

• can be removed by gently prying off the key cap (if it pops off then you have not been very gentle!).

The Mouse (Tracking ball)

• Dirt and dust can prevent your mouse from working properly.
• Turn the computer off.
• Turn the mouse upside down.
• Turn the little round panel anti - clockwise about a quarter of a turn.
• Remove the panel and the tracking ball.
• clean the ball with mild soap and water dry thoroughly.
• Gently use a toothpick or your fingernail to clean and build up of dirt from around the middle of the roller.
• Reassemble the mouse.

Monitors

• Ensure adequate of air circulation around the monitor.
• Keep vent holes clear.
• Spray grass cleaner onto cloth to clean screen.
• check putting monitor (up to 20 kg) on top.

Printers

• Always refer to Manual first.

Jams

• Turn off (laser printer), remove all jams very gently.
• Look for arrows and other indicators of directional feed path.

Printing Problems

• Refer to Manual first.

Cartridge Replacement

• If toner is low in laser print, remove cartridge and shake back & forth to redistribute ink.
• Don't touch ink jet nozzles or copper contacts (ink jet, bubble je).

Delete Items From The Print Queue Or Pause Printing

• Method varies slightly with different operating systems.

Delete or pause printing

>Start >Settings >Control Panel

>Printer (or printers and faxes)

>Double click on the selected printer

>Use the printer menu on the main menu bar to pause printing or delete items from the print queue.

Floppy disks

• Floppy disks are ideal for backing up work or transporting data from one machine to another. (Never rely on a floppy disk for important files. Always have a back up, preferably two back ups.)
• Floppy disks are fragil. Keep floppy disks away from heat, dust, magnetic sources (that means on top to your computer and top of speakers also).
• Use a soft tipped pen to write on the label before you put the label on.
• Don't try to remove old labels. (Partially removed labels and sticky bits can cause the disk to get stuck in the disk to get stuck in the disk drive.

Scan a Floppy disk for Errors

> My Computer

> Select 3^1/2 floppy (click once)

file Menu > Properties > Tools > Check now

>Place a tick next to

Automatically fix file system errors

and

Scan for and attemp recovery of bad sectors.

> Click Start

All maintenance procedures will vary slightly with different operating systems and different software. If you can't find what you are looking for... Feel free to contact me

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