Annual PC Maintenance

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Tips for proper maintenance of my equipment.

Many of our clients ask us, when they leave their equipment for repair or even when they pick up their repaired equipment, what recommendations we can give them to make their equipment last longer.

And yes, in the times we are living in now, all users who have a computer for domestic or professional use, want to extend its useful life. Because electronic equipment must be given the same “maintenance” and “prevention” as our health or our vehicle.

Obviously we get sick, the car needs a maintenance to avoid breakdowns and a computer often experiences the same thing as in the two previous examples.

In this new blog post of Master TrendWe are going to give you some guidelines on preventive maintenance and advice so that our team is by our side for as long as possible thanks to Annual Maintenance.

• The vast majority of equipment that is commonly used are devices laptops. Small equipment, that I can take with me anywhere in our home or office and continue working. But is it good to have a small equipment? portable that we do not use as a “laptop” and always have it on the table with the charger connected? Many of us think that if I disconnect it I will run out of battery at any moment and I will have to wait for it to finish charging to be able to continue working. In this way, what we are achieving is «degrade battery life» long before.
  • The battery A laptop battery is designed to be used for between 2 and 7 hours. Obviously, many factors influence the wear and tear on the battery.

1. It will depend on the brightness we have in the screen.
2. The applications that we are using (it is not the same if we are browsing the internet, than editing a photograph with Photoshop)
3. External screens that we have connected and the charger is not in our equipment.

• • Advice At this point it is, 2 or 3 times a week, do a discharge from the battery at least up to 20%, then reconnect it up to 80%. This way the battery doesn't get into the habit of always being at 100%.

We attach a small link with recommendations of Apple:

• Another point that we have to take into account in the maintenance One of the most important preventive measures is the ventilation of your equipment. If we work in an environment with a lot of humidity, dust, pets or even if we are people who smoke in the same room, this is quite damaging to our equipment. Everything that is in the environment, the ventilation duct itself, ventilation absorbs it and causes our fan to become clogged or even stop working. The moment we detect that our equipment is getting hotter than normal, even in the area of the keys If the appliance burns, it will be necessary to clean the equipment internally. Yes, internally, disassembling the device piece by piece, to clean the dust that has been generated inside. We will always remind you that this task should be done by a professional, because the parts are increasingly more delicate and smaller and it may happen that dust is generated during the process cleaning static energy in some of the components, which can cause our equipment to stop working permanently. Wouldn't it occur to us to open and disassemble our washing machine? Don't do the same with your computer equipment.

Annual Maintenance – Our equipment needs more “pampering” and good internal maintenance for its proper functioning:

• Continuing with the tips for your laptop and about the maintenance Preventive, another issue to take into account of a team is the health or maintenance of our storage unit (Hard Drive). For all of us, the information we have stored on our team is very important. Vital in many cases! Today's computers have a few hard drives called SSD Or FLASH. They are very fast and mean we don't have to wait so long to start or open a program. Fantastic, right? But beware, they are also hard drives with less storage capacity. And we all know each other. We go on working, filling the hard drive with information, until one day, bam! We have run out of space. It will probably coincide with some life-or-death information that we won't be able to store. And we get really nervous. How can we avoid these episodes?
  • We have to do backups daily, weekly or monthly. Don't skimp on copies. In the case of Apple It's very simple since we have a program dedicated to it, called Time Machine. We will only need to connect an external drive (remember that this drive will be only and exclusively for Time Machine-Apple) and let the magic do its work. We also have the option of cloud storage (iCloud or other platforms, usually all paid). In Windows there are also tools that can do the same job of backing up data. security. But oops! What if our hard drive is full? Don't worry. It's a very common problem. We work and work and we don't check the capacity limit of the storage unit. If this happens, one day we will reboot the hard drive. Mac and it crashes, with the “apple” and a process bar. And in Windows, blockage, white letters in English…a disaster!

Annual Maintenance – Indeed, not having your hard drive properly and up to date can cause the computer to NOT boot. And if we don’t have an updated backup copy we will undoubtedly go through a very “bitter” time…and critical in some cases.

• At this point, we ask you another question with a million-dollar answer: does our device suffer greater wear and tear from always being idle or should I “turn it on and off” every time I use it? Our advice as professional IT Technicians is, 1- if you constantly use your computer, working, in consultations, etc., do not turn it off. We only recommend restarting the computer once a week to refresh its components, the RAM memory consumed or even update the equipment with a pending update. A laptop does not need to be turned off every day.

After these little tips for the maintenance of your equipment, we always recommend doing a checkup of your equipment annually. Remember that, at Master Trend, The diagnosis is completely freeWe will check all the vital points of your equipment to see if it is working correctly. We will give you recommendations and tips for improvement… And only you can decide if you want to invest in a “better life” for your device and perform Annual Maintenance.

We also remind you that we are Technical service specialized in notebooks.  All our technicians are certified to provide you with the best service. Don't worry if you have a rare brand of equipment. We serve all brands, both software and hardware And if any equipment needs a part change, we can request it from one of our suppliers.

Contact us, we will be happy to help you with the Maintenance Annual of its equipment.