How do you clean your laptop?

[Alicia64]

My laptop is not clean. And dh -- who is a techie -- tends to "no, don't!" me when I try to clean it. (Also he eats cookies at night while on the laptop and I've gone to sleep.) I think dh is afraid that I'll hurt the laptop some way when I clean it.

I'd love your ideas. I have bought the special microfiber "towels." (Like you clean your glasses with but in a big size.)

TIA!!

Alley

[Arcadia]

Alcohol wipes is what my kids use for their laptop keyboards. Screen wipes for the laptop/tablet/cellphone screens. My husband would vacuum (on low power) the keyboards when it feels like the laptop might overheat. 

[mlktwins]

9 minutes ago, Alicia64 said:

My laptop is not clean. And dh -- who is a techie -- tends to "no, don't!" me when I try to clean it. (Also he eats cookies at night while on the laptop and I've gone to sleep.) I think dh is afraid that I'll hurt the laptop some way when I clean it.

I'd love your ideas. I have bought the special microfiber "towels." (Like you clean your glasses with but in a big size.)

TIA!!

Alley

I turned the laptop off, used Dust Off to get in between the keys, and wipes to do the keys.  My last laptop lasted 10 years and it was the hard drive that went when it died.  I have a thing about yucky keyboards -- LOL.

[Alicia64]

3 minutes ago, mlktwins said:

I turned the laptop off, used Dust Off to get in between the keys, and wipes to do the keys.  My last laptop lasted 10 years and it was the hard drive that went when it died.  I have a thing about yucky keyboards -- LOL.

I don't like yucky-cookie keyboards either. I think dh will freak if I use Dust Off -- do you mean any spray that's for dusting like Pledge? (If he's at work, what he doesn't know . . .)

Thank you!!

Alley

 

[mlktwins]

Dust Off is compressed air for electronics :-)

 

[Pawz4me]

I have some kind of computer cleaning spray that came in a kit with a microfiber rag. I turn the laptop off, spray some of the cleaner on the rag and go to town. But I do it about once a week, so mine is never really grungy.

[Lecka]

They sell that compressed air at Wal-Mart in the electronics section.   I think it’s stocked at many stores with the electronics.  It’s the best.  I think we use lens wipes I buy for glasses, but I check the label on the box every time.  My husband is very concerned about scratching the screen.  
 

Edit:  I just looked at the lens cleaner I have right now, and it doesn’t say it’s safe for screens, so I do not use it on screens.  
 

 

Edited December 9, 2019 by Lecka

[Alicia64]

1 hour ago, mlktwins said:

Dust Off is compressed air for electronics 🙂

 

Hahahaha! Now you know why dh is so against me cleaning the laptop!!

34 minutes ago, Pawz4me said:

I have some kind of computer cleaning spray that came in a kit with a microfiber rag. I turn the laptop off, spray some of the cleaner on the rag and go to town. But I do it about once a week, so mine is never really grungy.

Thank you!

34 minutes ago, Lecka said:

They sell that compressed air at Wal-Mart in the electronics section.   I think it’s stocked at many stores with the electronics.  It’s the best.  I think we use lens wipes I buy for glasses, but I check the label on the box every time.  My husband is very concerned about scratching the screen.  
 

Edit:  I just looked at the lens cleaner I have right now, and it doesn’t say it’s safe for screens, so I do not use it on screens.  
 

 

After I gave it a minute's thought I realized that we're talking compressed air -- not Pledge. (What a ding dong!)

Thank you everyone!

Alley

[plansrme]

I tried a sample of a product called "Whoosh" at Best Buy recently and immediately ordered some for everyone's stockings.  It is for screens.  You spray the cloth that comes with it, not the screen directly.  That and compressed air, as others have mentioned.  

[Lanny]

Cleaning the Keyboard is not a huge issue. I use a Baby Wipe to do that. Cleaning the Display IS a huge issue. The Screens are very fragile (ask me how I know, because the first Laptop we bought was mine and apparently I damaged it and it is out_of_service)  That was one of 3 Laptops we purchased from Blair Technology Group and I will try to remember to search my email for their suggestions about how to clean Laptop Displays, because they are very fragile...   That was a few years ago, so it will take me awhile to search for their email with suggestions...

[Arcadia]

44 minutes ago, Lanny said:

 Cleaning the Display IS a huge issue. The Screens are very fragile (ask me how I know, because the first Laptop we bought was mine and apparently I damaged it and it is out_of_service)  

 

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