How To Clean Your Laptop
Screen.
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this was
not the first site claiming to explain how to clean your laptop that
you had to trawl through then I am not suprised. I promise this will be
the last one.
What The Laptop Manufacturers Say
Ever heard the expression, "use a soft, non
abrasive lint free cloth"? Ever been into a computer store and asked
for one? Well if you have you probably remember the blank look. I have
contacted many laptop manufacturers and there service departments and
or instructions all seem to say the same thing. "Use a soft, non
abrasive lint free cloth". Without exception all the companies(5 in
total) I contacted when asked to recomend a particular cloth or
specific store where this magical cloth could be purchased where unable
to tell me.
What is happening is the laptop
manufacturers/retailers are unwilling to take responsibility for
reccomending anything. A quick google for one will turn up
page
after page of car cleaning cloths. Could a cloth used to clean a car
really be suitable for your precious laptop? I am guessing you dont
want to chance it and I don't blame you.
What Is
Lint?
So what is lint, how do we know the cloth is lint free, and where do I
get one? Web defenitions for lint are as varied as they are numerous.
They range from "Small fuzzy particles in paper", through, "Particles
of short fibers that fall off a fabric product during the stresses of
use", "Absorbent fluff that has been incorporated within a
textile", "cotton fiber" , "fine ravellings of cotton or
linen
fibers" upto "cotton or linen fabric with the nap raised on one side;
used to dress wounds".
So we can probably arrive at the assumtion that lint is a part of,
bi-product of, discharge of or even a type of material. Simply speaking
it is present or part of just about all fabric products. Check out the
filter of your washer/dryer sometime.
What
Doesn't Have Lint
So what we can deduce from this is that we need a cloth made from a
material that is 'pure'. I.e. has no lint, produces no lint and not
made from anything that has/produces lint. A range of man made fibre
types collectively known as 'microfiber/microfibre' is just such a lint
free product. Now dont rush out and buy the first microfibre thing you
find.
Microfiber can be coarse as well as soft. The grade of microfibre can
very much determine the uses it is suitable for. If it is fairly coarse
it is great for cleaning surfaces like stainless steel. If it if medium
coarse and arranged in loose strands it is perfect for dusting
household items and if it s soft and ultra fine it is perfect for
cleaning laptop screens or if you are a forgetfull killer - the trigger
of murder weapons should you forget to werar gloves.
How Do Microfiber Cloths Work.
Very simply it is all down to the particle size. If you wipe, say a
mirror with a regular cloth then some of the marks are gone, some of
them get moved about a bit and smear and some simply stays put. The
strange thing is that it doesn't matter how hard you wipe it still has
the same effect. This is because the particle size in a regular cloth
prevents it from making contact with the mirror consistentely.
Basically if you could zoom in with a microscopic movie camera it would
be like dragging a fork through some sauce on your plate. It
doesn't matter how hard you do it you cant move the sauce in between
the prongs.
Ultra Soft Microfiber
Cloths Will Work.
Wipe a hard surface with microfibe and it will make complete and
consistent contact withe the surface. Not only that but anything
absorbable on the surface like finger prints or a bit of a sneeze
(yuck) will be absorbed into the cloth in the same way that water is
absorbed into a regular cloth. They also wipe away regular stuff like
dust etc. Sometimes if a finger mark or something simmilar is old it
leaves a dry hard deposit and additional techniques are required to
shift it. This is often the case when you use a microfiber cleaning
cloth on a screen for the first time.
If you have a laptop with a smooth and/or shiney lid the same cloth
will work wonders on that too.
Techniuqes
For Using A Microfibre Cloth On
A Laptop Screen.
For stubborn marks a very
fine water spray on the cloth (NOT THE SCREEN) will suffice.
The first time you use the micro-fibre cloth you might need to 'focus'
on
individual marks or smears that may have been there for a long time.
Once you have your screen gleaming and new a regular 'quick wipe' will
be enough to remove all finger – grease – splash
marks and dust.
Great Tip For Top Results
Turn the screen off to create a totally black surface. Next position
the screen with a gentle (preferably ambient) light source shining on
it. This will show up every single speck of dust and all the
marks/smears etc. Now clean as described.
Put a tiny bit of water on it. A very fine spray or a few flicks from
your fingers with water.
The first time you use it you are battling against all the old marks.
Once you have got it pristine a regular wipe with the micro-fiber when
dry
or slightly less regularly with the fine water spray on the cloth is
all it takes(even for finger marks).
Just make sure to only wet the cloth(and only a little) and to remove
all moisture residue from the screen when finished.
How
To Get Rid Of Muck Around The Edge of
Your Laptop Screen.
Easy. Wrap your credit card up in the cloth. Make sure you wrap it
round several times to 'blunt' the edges. Now wipe with the covered
cred card edge from the screen edge towards the center of the screen.
You can quite easily wipe up what was stuck at the edges.
Laptop
Cloth Maintenance
The cloth can be washed in a machine at 60 - 90 degrees. Wash
separately or in a wash bag with a very small amount of detergent. Do
not use fabric softener. Tumble dry or hang dry. Wash the cloth without
detergent occasionally.
Precautions
Never, Never, Never, Never leave Any Residual Moisture On
Screen & never use your
cloth when it is dirty, remember it can be washed in the washing
machine.
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