Keep your Classroom Computer Running Smoothly

with Val Gavin

Basic Computer Maintenance

Your computer; no matter what you use it for, needs a minimum amount of maintenance and servicing to keep it running fast and smooth, you wouldn’t expect your car to be clean and ready on a daily basis without regular servicing, you would clean your car of the detritus that all of us manage to accumulate; like receipts, sweet and other food wrappers, drinks bottles and all the stuff that is left over from our busy lives.

Similarly your computer requires regular physical cleaning, you can use a vacuum cleaner at a low setting to clean out air vents especially cooling fan vents, it is amazing to see how much dust and lint gets trapped in those areas, causing your computer to overheat and thereby shorten the life of delicate components. For other areas use a hand duster, there are many out there, powered or manual to clean keyboards and other hard to reach parts of your computer, I don’t advise using pressurised air, as many of those contain liquids that can cause serious damage to sensitive circuitry.

Read the full article in Exploring EdTech Magazine for Teachers