Laptop Maintenance

1) Clean Your Hard Drive

Over the course of a month it is easy to accumulate a lot of unnecessary files on your laptop hard drive. Take the time once a month to go through your hard drive and examine the files there. Determine which should be saved elsewhere for future reference and which can be trashed. If you download programs on a regular basis to try new things or just to have access to new programs for projects, properly un-install those programs when no longer needed. A cleaner hard drive runs smoother.

2) Defrag Your Hard Drive

Defragging your hard drive is another step to ensuring your laptop will run more efficiently. Taking the time to defrag once a month will allow your programs to run more quickly and make better use of the space on your hard drive. When you defrag your laptop hard drive on a monthly basis you should notice fewer software crashes or freeze ups and programs will run better.

3) Keep Your Laptop Clean

Cleaning your laptop helps prevent overheating and those nasty dust bunnies from building up inside your laptop fans and exposed ports. Cleaning the screen also means you'll always view your data clearly and it's much easier on the eyes. Keeping your case free of dust and dirt buildup will help your laptop by preventing that dirt from getting inside the laptop.

4) Full Back-Up

Full back-ups should be conducted on a monthly basis and you should have a secure, fire-proof location to store your back-up. There are a variety of software and hardware options available. You should chose the method that is easy and can be done without fuss on a monthly basis. It may require trying different methods before you find the best back-up system for your needs.

More: Prevent Data Loss

5) Software Updates

Just as you keep your anti-virus and firewall software up-to-date, you should also keep your software programs updated. For many programs the updates will address security issues which help keep your laptop and data protected while on the road.

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Registery Learning : Fixing Taskbar @ its place

Here is another trick which can be useful for computers which are used in public places. If you are sick of seeing people comming around & move your Taskbar or resize it in the way they want, then this trick works for you.

This manipulation of registery just disable any changes on the taskbar. It means your taskbar would be stuck in its place and no one would be able to change it.

1. Run Registery Editor.
2. Go to :
HKEY_CURRENT_USER > Software >Microsoft > Windows > Current Version >Explorer> Advanced

3. Right click on the right window of registery editor. Choose New & then select BinaryValue. Name it "TaskbarSizeMove". Then, Right click on TaskbarSizeMove, go to modify>modifyBinaryData. Afterwards, enter " 00 00 00 01".

Hope it would be useful.

Shahab.

Registery Learning - Showing a message at startup

Trick 1 : Showing a message at windows start up.

1. Run Registery Editor as described in last post.
2. In different versions of windows, this step is different.

*** Win 98 & Me : HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE>Software>Microsoft>Windows>CurrentVersion>Winlogon

*** Win NT & XP : HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE>Software>Microsoft>WindowsNT>CurrentVersion>Winlogon

3. Right click on the right window(frame) of the registery editor. Select New & then choose String(Text) Value. Name it as LegalNoticeCaption(it might already exist) .Select it & choose modify, Then enter the caption(The headline that apears on top of the windows that is going to show your message) of your message as value.

4. Again right click on the right window(frame) of the registery editor. Select New & then choose String(Text) Value. Name it as LegalNoticeText (it might already exist) .Select it & choose modify, Then enter your message as value.

Well you're done & the message would apear on every windows startup.

Shahab.

Registery Learning

Well lets start with some tricks about windows registery.
In this learning, I'll show you some trick to manage windows manualy with codes. At first you have to know how to handle registery codes. For this you have to run REGISTERY EDITOR first.

1. Press Start button.
2.Click on Run.
3.Type "regedit" & then press Enter.
4.You will have registery editor infront of yourself on screen (Visual editor).

Shahab.

First post ...

Hi,

I am shahab, student of Computer Hardware Engineering. I made this blog to share my programming experience with others ... I call this weblog Lapskaus IT because it contains various numbers of different subject in computer world exactly as ingredients in real Lapskaus which in a north European food ...


Hope to be useful ...

With regards.

Shahab.
Iran, Tehran.