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Monday, July 2, 2012

How To Take Care Of Your Laptop While Travelling...



When travelling anywhere with your laptop there is always an element of risk that your device could be become damaged, lost or stole, This likely to cause a major impact on you in terms  of a financial aspect as you will to replace the computer and all the software associated with it. It will have an impace on the time as well because the all the data you have lost.

 

travel with your laptop
How to travel with your laptop

Seven Tips To Look After Your Laptop While Travelling

This article will give you seven tips on how you can look after and keep your laptop secure minimising any disruption to you.


1. Back up your data
Losing even the littlest amount of data can be inconvenient and that is why it is important to back up all your data before you are travel anywhere. The majority of security software will have a back up feature whereby you can save the data onto an external drive or to a web cloud server. Depending on which option you go for, you can be safe knowledge that your data is backed up.
 
2. Set a strong password 
Even though this will stop anybody from stealing your laptop but having a strong password it makes impossible for that person to gain access to your private and confidential information. You want to set to a password that has at least eight characters with a mixture of upper and lowercase, numbers or is alphanumeric. You could also look to set passwords for individual files or folders.