Tech Tip of the day #7 has to deal with how often you should clean the dust out of your desktop or laptop
How often should I clean my desktop?
This all depends on your environment, you may need to clean your desktop more or less often. Desktop placement is one important variable. Keeping your desktop on the floor allows for dust, hair, skin cells, and carpet particles to get inside easier. If you keep your desktop above the floor—say, on your desk—particles are less prone to getting inside.
If you’re the owner of a pet that sheds, you might want to clean your desktop more often. The inside of your desktop is just as susceptible to fur-clogging fans and other areas of your desktop.
In short, if you keep your desktop off the floor, don’t smoke, and don’t have shedding pets, you can probably get away with cleaning your desktop once per year. If any of those things do pertain to you, you might want to clean your desktop every 6, or even 3, months. And, as always, if your desktop starts getting hotter than usual, open it up to check for any dust or hair buildup and then clean it.
How often should I clean my laptop?
If you’ve had your laptop for a year or two, it may be full of dust. Dust clogs fans, vents, and heat sinks, preventing your PC from cooling down properly. You can remove a good amount of this dust, even if you can’t open your laptop.
Dust build-up can prevent a PC from cooling down properly, and that heat can even cause hardware damage. Your laptop’s fans may also run at full blast, draining your battery. Your laptop may even reduce its performance to stay cool.
But how often you need to perform cleaning again all depends on the environment that you keep your laptop in. So the same kinds of rules will apply as with the desktop cleaning.
Game Consoles
One of the most forgotten devices is our game consoles. Gaming consoles have come a long way since the games consoles of old like the atria or the NES. They are just as powerful as some of the best gaming desktops. So they two need to have a could cleaning schedule to help them last long enough till the next version comes out. So be sure to show them some love with a good cleaning too.
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