Toshiba Portege 2010 User Guide 2 - Page 39

Getting Started Precautions 39 into your working day. Finding ways to break up the routine can reduce stress and improve your efficiency. ❖ Take frequent breaks to change position, stretch your muscles and relieve your eyes. A break of two or three minutes every half hour is more effective than a long break after several hours. ❖ Avoid performing repetitive activities for long periods. Intersperse such activities with other tasks. ❖ Focusing your eyes on your computer screen for long periods can cause eyestrain. Look away from the computer frequently and focus your eyes on a distant object for at least thirty seconds. Precautions ❖ Avoid spilling liquids on the computer's keyboard. If you do spill a liquid that gets into the keyboard, turn off the computer immediately. Leave the computer turned off overnight to give it time to dry out before you use it again. ❖ If a drive-in-use light indicates the drive is being accessed, don't turn off the computer. Powering off the computer while it is reading from or writing to a disk may damage the disk, the drive or both. ❖ Keep the computer and diskettes away from objects that generate strong magnetic fields, such as large stereo speakers. Information on diskettes is stored magnetically. Getting a magnet too close to a diskette can erase important files. ❖ Scan all new files for viruses. This precaution is especially important for files you receive via diskette or email, or download from the Internet.