Happy Electronic New Year
Happy New Year!
In addition to getting your tax information gathered, making new file folders for 2015 receipts, going over your will and end of life documents, it's a good time to:
- replace your smoke alarm and Carbon Monoxide detector batteries
- do some maintenance on your computer.
Here are a few of my suggestions.
Clean your keyboard, screen and the outsides of your computers. A bowl of diluted cleaner and a rag (lint free!) will work for everything but the screen. Don't use glass cleaner. Use a lint free cloth with cool water after the screen has cooled off.
If you have a desktop PC, you might want to unhook all the cables and take it to the back porch. Open the side panel and do this:
- blow a bit of air gently over the internal cavity while. . .
- pulling the dusty air into a vacuum cleaner that is NOT too close to the innards. That dust is very flammable, usually, and needs to be cleaned out once a year or so.
After everything is put back together and dry and hooked back up, there are other things to do.
gives a GREAT view of what would be worth doing, but let me start with ONE IMPORTANT TASK!
Back up your data, including your contacts, emails downloaded to your machine, documents, etc.
I'll say it again: Back your data up!
You might do it every week or every two week, but be sure to do it today. If you have a Windows computer, set a System Restore point.
Happy Electronic New Year.
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