4 Important Things To Do Before Taking Your Laptop for Repair

A laptop or computer has increasingly become a necessity for almost everyone these days. In this online technical world, almost everyone owns a laptop, in fact, most of the people have more than one laptop. Have you damaged or broken your laptop accidentally? If that the case then you don’t have any other option left but to take it for repair.

Don’t you think that it’s not all right to hand over your laptop to someone without even thinking about the type of information and content stored inside it? Well, it’s not safe at all! A wrong intentioned repair technician can install malware software and other harmful spying tools and can even find all the private information about you. You should take your laptop or PC to a licensed or certified repair center.

So, before you handover or give your laptop to someone to get it repaired, below is a list of a few essential things you should do before doing that.

1. Backup the data
While there is no threat to the data when you take it to repair. But in most cases, the repair performed by the technicians have a risk of data loss. You’re the one responsible for your data. Well, this is the nature of digital information, and there is always of the possibility. Especially if the laptop issue is a major hardware failure or a virus in your laptop. So make sure that you backed up all the stuff at home before giving the laptop in anyone’s hands.

2. Remove all the sensitive data
If there is any sensitive or personal data on your laptop that you don’t want anyone else to see, remove it off first. Delete all the files and folders that contain the information of your bank account, your PIN, CVV, and other important details associated with the bank account. Also, make sure to delete all the irrelevant and porn images or videos, knowingly or unknowingly you may have downloaded. If you cannot or don’t want to remove them, then use a file encryption program to encrypt password and lock to protect such data files or folders.

3. Put sensitive information and ADT in the cloud storage
Important official work can come at any time. Sometimes in emergency cases, people have to work even when their laptop is in the repair center. So, ensure that the important files and other sensitive data you may need for the urgent project are already stored in cloud storage, Dropbox, or onedrive. By doing this you can access your files on another laptop and can also syn changes to your laptop automatically when you get it back after being repaired.

4. Make your laptop accessible
The next thing you should do is allowing the repair technician to access your laptop. A technician will need to boot the laptop before fixing your laptop. You can share the password with the technician while disabling the option of windows login password.

So, the above mentioned is a list of a few important things you should definitely do before taking your laptop for repair.

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