How To Extend The Life Span Of A Laptop LCD Display

How to extend the lifespan of a laptop LCD display, the laptop LCD screen is one of the most delicate part of a laptop, hence there is need to handle it in such a way that will enhance its efficiency and at the same time extend its lifespan.

The backlight is the light source of a laptop LCD display and without it, images on the LCD display can not be seen. Therefore, the life span of  the backlight is one of the factors that determines the life span of a laptop LCD display. When the backlight goes bad, the laptop becomes useless, until the backlight is replaced  by a functional one. Aside the backlight, there are some other things or factors that could shorten the life span a laptop LCD display and i have listed below ways through which you can overcome those factors and extend the life span of your laptop LCD display.

• Set the display brightness to the lowest comfortable level

• Avoid using a screen saver or any software that prevents the laptop from changing to Display-off or Standby mode after a timeout period. If you use a screen saver, enable the option to shut off the display after a time delay.

• Do not disable Display-off or Standby timeouts. 

• Keep sharp objects away from your laptop, this objects are dangerous and can easily damage the screen

• Carry your laptop with the screen folded down so that if you drop it or bump into something, the delicate screen is not exposed.   

• Remove any object that is on the keyboard before closing the laptop, this will prevent the screen from being damage by such object.  

• Use a padded case or a laptop bag whenever there is need to transport the laptop from one place to another.  

• keep the case or laptop bag slightly empty to avoid putting pressure on the screen  

• Avoid touching the screen with your hand or finger, point at things on the screen with a mouse cursor or from a distance without touching the screen with your finger or with any object  

• Clean the screen with a soft cotton or micro fiber cloth rather than paper towels or tissues, and wipe with nothing at all or with only a little water. For a detailed guide on to clean your laptop screen click here

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How To Lock The Hard Drive

The laptop enables you to lock its internal hard drive to help keep your information secure. When you enable the hard drive lock, the current BIOS user password (or administrator password if that is the only password
set) is encoded on the hard drive. If you move the hard drive to another laptop, you cannot access the drive until you set the user (or administrator) password to match the drive password. After you match the drive password, you can change the laptop (and drive) password. If you forget the password, you cannot recover your data.

• Select Start > Turn Off Computer > Restart.

• When the logo screen appears, press F2 to enter the BIOS Setup utility, for a step by step guide on how to run the BIOS setup utility click here.

• From the Security menu, enable Password Required to Boot.

• From the Security menu, enable Internal hard drive lock.

• Press F10 to save and exit BIOS Setup.

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How To Set Up Password Protection On Your Laptop

You can protect your laptop from being accessed by another user when you set up password protection, which is available either through Windows and through the BIOS Setup utility. For complete protection, it is advisable that you set passwords in Windows as well as through BIOS Setup. To cancel password protection, set an empty password.

To Setup Password through Windows

• Select Start > Control Panel > User Accounts, then select your account. 

• Select Create a Password, then set the password.

• Select Start > Control Panel > Performance and Maintenance > Power Options.

• On the Advanced tab, select the option to prompt for a password when the notebook leaves Standby.

 To Setup Password through BIOS

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How To Run The BIOS Setup Utility

How to run the BIOS setup utility, The BIOS (basic input and output system) Setup utility enables you to make changes to the laptop system configuration, and to streamline the operation of your laptop to your individual work needs. The settings made in BIOS Setup generally control the laptop hardware, and also greatly affect how the laptop operates. To enter the BIOS setup utility, follow these steps.

• Select Start > Turn Off Computer > Restart.

• When the logo screen appears, press F2 (on some laptop model it might be different) to enter BIOS Setup.

• The pointing devices are not active in BIOS Setup, so you will need to use the keyboard to navigate

• Press the left and right arrow keys to move among menus

• Press the up and down arrow keys to move among parameters in a menu

• Press + or - to move through values for the current parameter or press enter to change a setting.

• After you select the options you want, press F10 or use the Exit menu to exit BIOS Setup.

• If the settings cause a conflict between devices during reboot, the system prompts you to run BIOS Setup, and marks the conflicting settings 

The following tables describe BIOS settings for the BIOS version at publication. If your BIOS is a different version, some settings may differ from those shown below. 
 

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