**•How To Keep Your PS3 Slim In Pristine Condition!•**

1# "NEVER Let Your System Overheat!"
You'll know when it is overheating if it burns to touch it. The 3 main causes of PS3 heating are:
1) Leaving it on for a long period of time. (Especially on hot days)
2) Keeping it on carpet o an inclosed area.
3) Dust build-up in vents.

Ways to prevent these problems are:

*Keeping the PS3 on either a polished wood, solid plastic o metal surface to allow decent heat conducting. tu can also have four, equally high objects placed under each corner of your playstation so it has room to allow air-flow. Some of my favourite things to use are Glen 20 disinfectant can lids & children's building blocks. tu can use ANY materials except:
•Styrofoam/foam
•Regular Plastic
•Paper
•Splintered Wood
#NOTE#
Even though tu can't use "regular plastic," tu can still use "solid plastic" as it conducts heat a lot better. (Glen 20 can lids)

*Now for the dust. To make sure there is no dust build up in your system, unplug it and carefully turn it upside-down and you'll see small vent holes all the way around the edges of the Slim. tu will also see one big strip of vents on the back near where the cables go.

If tu look closely, tu may see dust clogging them. To effectively remove it, get a dry cloth and gently wipe the surface of the dust to loosen it. After that tu can either use a vacuum (on low suction) o just blow gently towards the vents to get rid of the dust. (Make sure tu DO NOT have the vacuum on HIGH suction. It may DAMAGE COMPONENTS inside the system!) Also be careful if your going to "blow into the vents" because saliva may get inside and/or dust.

2# "Backup Your System Regularly!"
If your system unexpectedly fails, crashes and corrupts, all of your precious save files will be gone from games that tu may have spent HUNDREDS of hours playing! (*cough* Skyrim *cough*) However, if tu backup your PS3 regularly, this shouldn't be a problem!

There a three methods of backing up/copying content.
1) Copy "non-copy-protected" save files to USB.
2) Copy ALL save files to playstation Plus. #NOTE# tu will need to pay at least $10-20 for a three mes subscription. It is, however cheaper than buying a larger USB o External HDD.
3) Performing a "Full Backup" of the system to either a large enough USB o External HDD.
#NOTE# If you're using an External-HDD, it MUST be formatted to FAT32 o the PS3 will not recongnise it.

3# "Saving Hard-Drive el espacio On Your Console."
If you've noticed things slowing down, tu may not have a lot of el espacio on your system HDD for your console to work and function properly. #NOTE# This may be más of an issue on a playstation with a "smaller hard-drive." If tu follow the steps below, tu should be fine!

To Check how many GBs tu have left on your console. Go to "Settings," "System Setting" & then open "System Information." It will mostrar tu how many GBs tu have used and how much el espacio tu have left. e.g: 233/320GB. The number on the left will mostrar how many GBs tu have left. If tu don't have much, scroll across the XMB to "Game Data Utility" and borrar any game's data that tu aren't playing anymore/lately. Don't worry, Game data is only "install data," when tu decide to play the game again tu will just have to install again and your saves will not be affected. If tu also want to copy & borrar game saves, scroll down from "Game Data Utility" and select "Save Data Utility." If tu have important saves, don't worry about them. Saves take up hardly any el espacio compared to "Game Data." If tu want to free-up as much el espacio as possible, tu can plug a USB into the PS3 and copy "non-copy-protected" saves to your thumb drive. That way tu can borrar them off of tu system and just copy them back from the USB when tu want to play them again. #NOTE# tu can copy some "Game Data Utility" as well as "Save Data Utility" if tu want to do both. If tu send/receive a lot of messages from other players, scroll over to "Mesages," "Recieved Messages," press triángulo, triángulo de and "delete messages." Do the same for "Sent Messages." This should free-up some KBs o even MBs if tu use Messages often.

tu should have enough hard-drive el espacio for tu PS3 to work smoothly again!

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