How to Clean the Mouse on Your Computer

Series Summary

Computers are complex machines built upon very simple principles. They perform arithmetical operations millions of times over to transform digital information moving at lightning speed into usable human data. A personal computer's job is to help a user create, manipulate, deliver, receive or delete media content. This is a simple, sterile definition that sounds uninteresting on the surface. Nevertheless, these fundamental functions mimic human ability in some surprising ways. Therefore, the computer is increasingly becoming an engine of the imagination, a platform for the digital life. In this free video on computer peripherals, a professional computer hardware trainer demonstrates how to hook up a variety of accessories to a computer, including scanners, printers, external hard drives, internal hard drives, DVD burners, CD burners, internal modems, memory chips and even a floppy disk drive. The trainer demonstrates how to hook up an external monitor, an external keyboard and an external mouse to a laptop. Not sure how to adjust the color or resolution of a monitor? Wondering how to use a flash drive? Then watch this free video series and become a computer expert.

Video Transcript

"My name is James Computer Hardware Trainer for InterConnection and I am going to show you how to clean your mouse. The first thing you are going to want to do is take the mouse, take a cloth and for this it can be any type of cloth. It can be a napkin or whatever you have. What I like to use on it is a little Isopropyl Rubbing Alcohol. This is going to help clean all the grit off. You are just going to want to rub the mouse down. One thing that might happen if you use a cloth that has much lint is you might get the lint on the track ball and that can be a little bit of a pain and you can dust that off, a little compressed air should take care of that. So rub the mouse all down like so. If it happens to be an optical mouse there will be a little lens right here and you might want to rub that as well just to keep that a clear line of sight for the little sensor on your mouse pad, just a good thing to clean while you are at it. That is how you clean your mouse. Like I said use that rubbing alcohol and you should get good results. My name is James and I just showed you how to clean your mouse."