Remove WinXP/Pentium M sticker adhesive

[WilsonF]

I pulled off the Intel and MS stickers on my T42p. How do I remove the adhesive residue? It seems impervious to isopropyl alcohol and to a tiny bit of WD40. Any ideas?

[Leon]

hairdryer

[nenarek]

There are also several adhesive remover products on the markey. I work at a hospital so I just used some adhesive remover pads that are used when cleaning up the adhesive from bandages.

You should also be able to find a product called Goo Gone at most pharmacys, hardware stores and places like walmart. Goo Gone is citrus based so it probably won't hurt the plastic.

[hausman]

Before you buy anything, try some vegetable oil (the stuff that's used for cooking.) Apply some and let it sit for a few minutes. That will soften the glue and you'll be able to wipe everything off. Just be careful not to get the stuff into the keyboard or other innards.

[dpb]

Amazingly, as sticky as the adhesive is, I got it to come off very readily by just dabbing it up with the sticky side of Scotch tape!

[andrzejpw]

seeing this thread made me take a hairdryer to my license sticker. Bam it's off.

[nenarek]

I took mine off as soon as I was sure I didn't need to return the laptop. I felt no need to provide free advertising space for Intel or Microsoft. Besides that, the stickers were interfering with the black slab theme the thinkpad has going for it!

[hominoidea]

Just use the stickers themselves/scotch tape, as said, to tap the adhesive away. No need for anything fancy. Just like removing those blue tac marks on the wall/whatever with a bigger ball of blue tac.