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I have just posted an article on Hard Disk Maintenance and I think I will post couple of more articles on Maintenance series, May be one on Mobiles and on iPod too. So its the perfect time to bookmark the blog by clicking ctrl+D

Anyway nowdays on your PC, probably a printer will be one of the more costlier items(provided its a good printer) and they get damaged very easily. And the problem is, you only use them when you need them. So you will never know they are not working properly unless you need them urgently With proper maintenance and a few tips, you can significantly reduce problems and increase the life of your printer.

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The hard disk is probably the most sensitive and weakest component of your computer. It’s also the most important(atleast for me, all my personal and financial info is in it) and if it crashes, you could lose important files, information and pictures and cause unrepairable damage to hard disk. Hard drives only last on average between three and five years. But by performing maintenance, you can significantly increase its life, probably past the point where it becomes obsolete.

The windows operating system has three built in function you can use to increase the life of your hard disk. Disk Defragmenter (defrag) is the most powerful program for routine maintenance. As you create, save and delete files, you leave blank spaces and bits of files or clusters on your hard disk. Defragging relocates files into an orderly structure, reducing the time it takes to process data and which reduces the stress on your hard disk. Another benefit of defragging is improved performance of your hard disk. Many computer professionals recommend defragging once a month.

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Normally all the laptops that come in India by companies like Dell, HP and IBM, they put them in two categories, Home and small business. By Home Edition, they meant a somewhat lower configuration laptop which will only be used to surf net, play games and for watching movies where as Small business laptops are more powerful(and costlier) with better hardware. I feels irrespective of whether you are going to only use the laptop for personal use, still always go for good configuration laptop because if you buy average configuration by today's standards, it will soon get outdated in a year or so. So pay 5k rupees more and get a good laptop which you can use for next 3-4 years. Remember, parts repair and upgrades in laptops is not that easy as in desktops

In this post I am going to compare cheap laptop prices available in India in a series of posts. The range is going to be from INR 30k to 45k and I am going to start with Dell.

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