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Safely Cleaning LCD Displays?

Posted by Cliff on from the but-spring-cleaning-was-months-ago dept.

An anonymous reader asks: "I own several laptops and one flat-panel LCD display, and I am trying to find a good way to keep them clean without damaging them. Using the alcohol-based cleaning wipes that I normally use for my CRT displays doesn't seem right, and I had an (idiot) friend who shorted out a great many of the transistors on his laptop's LCD by spraying Windex on it. What's the best way to clean these things without damaging them or creating buildup that I'll just have to clean off again separately?"

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  1. So, by Perdo · · Score: 5, Funny

    We get a lab of new iMacs into the school.

    A week later, we ship them all back.

    First it was a rash of cracked screens.

    The kids were poking their fingers into them.

    Then it was a broken arm.

    They both wanted to look at it.

    But the children could not match what came next:

    They all got washed with whiteboard cleaner.

    By the principal.

    An hour before open house.

    The PHB said "they ARE white."

    It turned them blue.

    The parents got to see their tax dollars at work.

    We traded them for eMacs.

    The PHB kept his job.

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    1. Re:So, by moosesocks · · Score: 3, Funny

      I can relate to a similar experience:

      English class, the last week of school. (it should be noted that this English classroom had (old) computers at every desk)

      Teacher tells us we can skip the lesson if we tidy up the room. We blindly agree

      She tells to windex all the computers, making sure to get 'inside of them' really good.

      Now, I know quite a bit about computers, and the teacher obviously didn't know anything. I had offered solutions to problems the computers had presented earlier in the year, only to be told that I was arrogant and insulting the teacher's knowledge, and the teacher hated me since. So, I shut my mouth while I watched in horror as students squirted windex inside monitors and power supplies.

      That summer, i spent about 2 weeks working for the school fixing computers. The other 'techies' were astonished as to how most of the computers ended up with bad monitors, motherboards, and power supplies.

      It was then that I learned what a pain it is to figure out WHICH parts of the 25 computers in the lab she had destroyed (hmmm... is this PC dead because the monitor just doesn't work, has a bad motherboard, power supply, or video card)

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  2. Easy Clean by stinkydog · · Score: 3, Funny

    I reccomend the dishwasher. Open the laptop and place in face down on the top rack. Add some Cascade and clean away. I will also get all those crumbs and Mountain Dew spots off the keyboard.

    SD

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  3. Re:You can use windex... by 0x0d0a · · Score: 5, Funny

    Pavlovian conditioning. They touch the screen, they get smacked.

    Nature is wonderful.

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  4. Re:Try google by 0x0d0a · · Score: 4, Funny

    The wrong cloth being steel wool?

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  5. Re:You can use windex... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Put an invisible electrical mesh coating on it and run a high voltage through it. Touch the screen and get an eletric shock.