What is the best way to clean the LCD ?

[jusjay]

Hi what is the best way to clean the LCD? as well as the front cover of a t43 ?

thanks alot

cheers

[mdarnton]

I use water and a paper towel on the screen, and occasionally some windex, to get off the last bits of oil. I know there's a lot of noise about this, but I've been doing it on this T41 for almost three years (and on every computer I've had previously) and the only screen problem is a damaged spot where the little joystick rubs. Just don't do it every day--I use windex about every two months, and water the rest of the time.

On the cover, I use windex, liberally.

[GomJabbar]

http://isweb.fdu.edu/computing/lcd.html

http://erms.samsungusa.com/customer/sea ... PROD_ID=-1

[brainpicker]

I use distilled water and a microfiber cloth. I also don't touch my screens so "cleaning" is only every few weeks. Dusting is more like it. Now when I am forced to buy something from a previous owner who thinks his Thinkpad is a touch-screen model I use the cleaner I was sold to use on my Swarovski & Zeiss optical products which looks to be (mainly) a mixture of distilled water and isopropyl alcohol. In any case I apply the liquid to the cloth and gently wipe the screen only as much as necessary.

I was told paper products in the US have a high silica content so they can be very abrasive. I never researched this but with the cost of a microfiber cloth being $2 I don't take the chance either.

- Yak

[pianowizard]

50% ethanol 50% water. To avoid scratching the screen, I use lens paper, i.e. the kind used to clean microscope lenses.

[lithium726]

ive always used distilled/purified water (whatever bottles i have around, just not tap water) and an old 100% cotton tshirt, just something very soft.

[raabjerg]

I use AM flatscreen cleaner: http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.asp?sku=311674&cks=ACC

It works very well, comes with spray and microfiber-covered spunge, and leaves no stripes

[mdarnton]

It's interesting that three of us have mentioned water. It was a bit of a surprise to me when I discovered that I didn't need some strong chemical to remove greasy fingerprints.

I'd always thought of this type of problem as being how close I could get to acetone without actually destroying what I was working on. :-) Then I discover water works pretty well by itself. . . It's a useful chemical, and a nice convenience that we have so much of it placed accessibly around us.

I'm a violin maker/restorer, and restorers now and recently use de-ionized water for cleaning things. It's basicially a purer version of distilled, and the de-ionized part means that it's aggressively looking for things (grease, dirt) to hook up with, and thus a very subtle solvent for a lot of things. I'd never known that about water until a couple of years ago. That was why I even bothered to try water on my screen, and darned if it didn't work much better than I'd predicted!

[masterus]

Hi

In my oppinion the best way to clean screen is to use special wipes.They're not so expensive about 5-6eur.But you will be sure you will not damage your screen.

[raabjerg]

I used water for a good while too - just haven't been able to avoid making stripes on the screen. Maybe I'm too clumsy

[johnchan]

I use an air duster, spot clean the areas that need cleaning then use my shirt to wipe it down, no scratches, no marks

[rosemarycane]

Here is a post from notebook review:

http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=2871

It seems like it might be a good product.

[christopher_wolf]

I go with a micro-chamois cloth and Klearscreen; works for the screen, keyboard, and chassis.

[Kyocera]

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