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General maintenance tips and tricks
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General maintenance tips and tricks
Hi folks.
This thread is all about helping others about maintenance for your ThinkPads. Feel free to ask and answer questions and leave your maintenance tips and tricks.
First question i have is how do you keep a keyboard and trackpad from getting shiny? It's ABS plastic (i guess) and i really dislike that the new keyboard gets shiny really fast. Thanks!
Tips from me: Those wetnaps you get at rotisseries are very nice to clean your ThinkPad screen and outer shell.
Cheers!
This thread is all about helping others about maintenance for your ThinkPads. Feel free to ask and answer questions and leave your maintenance tips and tricks.
First question i have is how do you keep a keyboard and trackpad from getting shiny? It's ABS plastic (i guess) and i really dislike that the new keyboard gets shiny really fast. Thanks!
Tips from me: Those wetnaps you get at rotisseries are very nice to clean your ThinkPad screen and outer shell.
Cheers!
Daily driver : P16s AMD Gen1 Ryzen 7 6850u Pro - Arch Linux.
HTPC : T540p 3K Screen - i7-4600M - Windows 11.
Have : X120e, X24.
Had : T420 - 240 - IBM i Series type 1171
HTPC : T540p 3K Screen - i7-4600M - Windows 11.
Have : X120e, X24.
Had : T420 - 240 - IBM i Series type 1171
Re: General maintenance tips and tricks
Keyboard and touchpad wear just comes with use, but I'm a firm believer that washing your hands before typing helps reduce wear due to all the oils that our bodies produce - these can add to the shiny effect on keys.
Software is a big part of maintenance and whenever I setup, diagnose or update TPs I always use my trusty Zalman Virtual Drive. This is an external SATA3 HDD enclosure that allows you to setup a 2.5-inch HDD/SSD as a storage drive that can also act as a virtual ISO mount at the same time! When in Dual Mode, Windows sees the regular storage drive and also the selected ISO that you have mounted! ISOs are stored in a dedicated folder on the drive and you can mount demount them anytime. I have all of my TP recovery ISOs, drivers and Windows software/tools on a single drive, it's like a software multi-tool. You can also encrypt the drive and password protect it.
Software is a big part of maintenance and whenever I setup, diagnose or update TPs I always use my trusty Zalman Virtual Drive. This is an external SATA3 HDD enclosure that allows you to setup a 2.5-inch HDD/SSD as a storage drive that can also act as a virtual ISO mount at the same time! When in Dual Mode, Windows sees the regular storage drive and also the selected ISO that you have mounted! ISOs are stored in a dedicated folder on the drive and you can mount demount them anytime. I have all of my TP recovery ISOs, drivers and Windows software/tools on a single drive, it's like a software multi-tool. You can also encrypt the drive and password protect it.
Goodbye T420 <3
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Re: General maintenance tips and tricks
Laptops and Thinkpads are tools. Use it, abuse it, next. Enjoy it but don't stress over it.
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Re: General maintenance tips and tricks
I mean if its a Tp700C or some insanely rare one than yes, preserve it. Otherwise, beat and repeat.Cigarguy wrote:Laptops and Thinkpads are tools. Use it, abuse it, next. Enjoy it but don't stress over it.
Thinkpad4by3's Law of the Universe.
The efficiency of two screens equally sized with equal numbers if pixels are equal. The time spent by a 4:3 user complaining about 16:9 is proportional to the inefficiency working with a 16:9 display, therefore the amount of useful work extracted is equal.
The efficiency of two screens equally sized with equal numbers if pixels are equal. The time spent by a 4:3 user complaining about 16:9 is proportional to the inefficiency working with a 16:9 display, therefore the amount of useful work extracted is equal.
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