Hardware Technician SuperStar

Larry Heckler, the Hardware Technician Supervisor, came to talk to our class the other day. He taught me so many things and also told many funny stories. The most important thing I took from the lecture was to always and frequently back up my files whether it is on an external hard drive, DVD, thumb drive, or a cloud resource like our Y: drive. Mr. Heckler told us multiple stories of students who had their entire lives on their laptops and just one accidental drop or drink spill could cause you to lose everything and most likely never get it back. Most times when the information gets lost its irretrievable and gone forever! Apparently even if you take your crashed computer to a company that specializes in  retrieving lost information there is a good chance they'll charge you hundreds of dollars and not even end up retrieving the lost files. It's also very important to never clean your computer with alcohol, which was news to me because that's the way I've been cleaning my laptops and computers for years. Without a doubt the most interesting bit of information I learned from Larry heckler was that it's actually good to run your laptop battery completely down at least once a month. By consistently charging your laptop after just 10 minutes of use your computer gets a short memory cycle, which explains why the battery will only last 10 minutes on a road trip because that is what the battery has become accustomed to. Larry Heckler taught me so much in his lecture and I will definitely apply all my new knowledge of computer maintenance to my current and future computers and laptops.