PC Hardware A Beginner’s Guide

Output Devices Output devices receive more attention in general, probably because if they get dirty it im- pacts the quality of ...

Using compressed air, clean away any dust on the top of the monitor’s case. Point the air stream to blow across the top of the ...

(^582) PC Hardware: A Beginner’s Guide adaptation of technology can become a nightmare in your vacuum cleaner if you are using a ...

Chapter 22: PC Care and Maintenance^583 Using an appropriate vacuum with a soft brush attachment, clean the fusing area of any ...

(^584) PC Hardware: A Beginner’s Guide Packard and Canon printers, and those that separate the print head and ink reservoir, suc ...

 Dust and paper scraps and bits can collect in the bottom of the paper path in an inkjet printer. On a fairly regular basis, yo ...

(^586) PC Hardware: A Beginner’s Guide Cleaning and Maintenance Supplies To kee pyour PC in good working condition, you should h ...

Chapter 22: PC Care and Maintenance^587 The contents of a standard MSDS are
Section 1 Chemical Product Section  Section 2 Com ...

(^588) PC Hardware: A Beginner’s Guide The system cooling fan in the power supply either pulls air into or pushes air out of the ...

Chapter 22: PC Care and Maintenance^589 Using a general-purpose cleaner, clean the outside of the case, being careful not to ge ...

Backu psoftware offers some advantages over just co pying a file to a removable me- dium. Most offer data compression techniques ...

Chapter 22: PC Care and Maintenance^591  A copy backup copies specified files and directories to a specified location or drive. ...

shut down properly. In addition, you should run ScanDisk at least weekly to find and re- pair small errors on the disk before th ...

Chapter 22: PC Care and Maintenance^593 Figure 22-15. The Windows Disk Defragmenter organizes data and free space on the disk Fi ...

heads of the drive. You should only clean a floppy disk drive when it begins having read or write problems. Every so often you m ...

Portable PCs Portable PCs, including laptops, notebooks, and palmtops, have many of the same pre- ventive maintenance requiremen ...

(^596) PC Hardware: A Beginner’s Guide Case Portable PC cases, except those on ruggedized portables, are fragile, having been de ...

The first line of defense is a surge suppressor. The entry-level surge suppressor is a plug-strip that includes a varistor that ...

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