{"id":706,"date":"2012-12-13T16:40:23","date_gmt":"2012-12-13T16:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uktech-one.co.uk\/blog\/?p=706"},"modified":"2012-12-13T17:25:27","modified_gmt":"2012-12-13T17:25:27","slug":"how-to-look-after-your-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/12\/how-to-look-after-your-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Look After Your PC"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>You do clean your computer, right?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Most folk don&#8217;t realise that their PC is really just an air filtration unit! PC&#8217;s suck dusty air inside the machine, where it collects, mainly, on the motherboard and inside\u00a0the power supply.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>You might think your house is way too clean for this to happen &#8211; but the &#8216;dust&#8217; I&#8217;m talking about here is too fine to see. But over time, it <em><strong>will<\/strong> <\/em>accumulate inside your machine &#8211; desktop or laptop &#8211; it really doesn&#8217;t matter.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Why should I care?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Because this dust will in all\u00a0likelihood kill your computer.\u00a0It&#8217;s very simple &#8211; the dust accumulates stopping the machine from cooling properly and something overheats and dies.<\/p>\n<p>Usually this is the power supply first.<\/p>\n<p>You can slow down this problem easily by regular\u00a0use of the hoover &#8211; and the small brush attachment:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"square\" margin-left: 30px;>\n<li>Switch the machine off<\/li>\n<li>Hoover the power grill lightly<\/li>\n<li>Hoover the keyboard carefully<\/li>\n<li>Remove and hoover any PC case &#8216;filter units&#8217;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p>Job done!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It may not be much, but it will certainly\u00a0help\u00a0to prolong the life of your machine \/ keyboard<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You do clean your computer, right? Most folk don&#8217;t realise that their PC is really just an air filtration unit! PC&#8217;s suck dusty air inside the machine, where it collects, mainly, on the motherboard and inside\u00a0the power supply.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maintenance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=706"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":720,"href":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions\/720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}