How to clean my laptop screen

phobossphoboss
edited August 2003 in Hardware
As the title says, I want to clean the sceen of my laptop but am not sure what to use. Any suggestions? I dont realy want to go out to PC world and buy a special cleaner etc so can I just use a damp cloth?

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  • ClutchClutch North Carolina New
    edited August 2003
    As long as the cloth isn't a rough texture that would scratch your screen. Maybe a terry cloth that you use to detail cars with?
  • phobossphoboss
    edited August 2003
    Ok, cheers, I was just worried that water would mess it up. Il give it a polish with a damp cloth and see :)
  • AgeekAgeek
    edited August 2003
    Water will not hurt the laptop but eyeglass cleaner for plastic and glass lenses would leave fewer streaks and spots if it is hard water (spray lense cleaner on cloth).
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited August 2003
    Go to the nearest office supply store and pick up a can of Endust for Electronics. I use it for everything (including laptop screens) and it works very, very well.
  • dodododo Landisville, PA
    edited August 2003
    I heard a 50/50 mixture of water and rubbing alcohol is excellent cleaning for LCDS. It's cheap too.

    ~dodo
  • AgeekAgeek
    edited August 2003
    That is true if you use water without lots of other things in it, as we get here in my state. Our water streaks glass, and spots it, ditto for plastic eyeglass lenses and screens and small LCDs on cameras. So, I picked up so eyeglass claening spritzers. They do get refilled with half bottled water and a bit less than half rubbing alcohol with a bit of ammonia tossed in (like a CC in an eyedropper per 2 oz spritzer). The little bit of ammonia lifts fingerprint oils that smear otherwise.

    For dust alone, aircan is great, or a blowing electronic parts cleaner (blower\Vac combo)like a DataVac if you do a LOT of cleaning of electronics.
  • LINLIN Tri_State Area
    edited August 2003
    Water and alcohol do the trick on my LCD screen.

    LIN
  • phobossphoboss
    edited August 2003
    Thanks guys, a lot of good suggestions here. The water in my area is hard (tonnes of limescale) so il look into the eyeglass cleaner.

    :)
  • dodododo Landisville, PA
    edited August 2003
    Bottled water is usually clean.

    ~dodo
  • phobossphoboss
    edited August 2003
    Found the perfect thing, looked under the kitchen sink and there was a pack of Windowleen wipes, just took one of them and its spotless! - now if only I could get the rest of it clean.....
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