How To Do Just About Everything
By frank
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LCD screens are everywhere now. On your laptop and on your desktop. They attract dust and dirt. Here's how to clean them safely.
Grab the cleanest, smoothest cloth you can find. If you have a microfiber cloth, grab it!
Hint - look in eyeglass cases!
If not, no problem, just pick a cloth that has been washed many times. It's likely that it will be quite smooth.
If your monitor isn't very dirty, plain water may suffice.
If not, make a mixture of Isopropyl alcohol and water in equal parts (50/50) inside an empty Windex-like bottle.
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grimrider said
on 1/19/2008 never use glass cleaner on an lcd. glass cleaner has ammonia in it and that will eat away at your lcd and cause things like funky colors and dead spots.
grimrider said
on 1/19/2008 never use glass cleaner on an lcd display. glass cleaner has ammonia in it and can permanently damage and lcd
frank said
on 1/7/2008 " i lighly sprayed dixy glass cleaner on my lcd (so little so that it may no get inside the screen) and rubber it with a clean cloth. "
Always spray the cleaner on a cloth, then wipe the cloth on the screen.
If you spray directly on the screen, the liquid may leak down into the connector and permanently damage the screen.
It sounds like that may be what happened to your screen & is causing the weird colours.
sohailgagai said
on 1/6/2008 there must be something wrong with the product u use to clean the monitor
humans do make mistakes.
karenlf said
on 4/12/2008 why is laptop screen black, i can't see any icons