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How often do you clean your screen/keyboard?

And what do you use to clean it?

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Meghan (she/her)

All the time!

photo of meghan washing a keyboard in the sink

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Ben Halpern

Action shot!

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Jan Kosutnik

At least once a week.
Keyboard and mouse are like steering wheel and transmission.

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Paresh

Screen - once in a year. Keyboard - never!

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Ankur Biswas

I clean it every two months. 😁

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Vignesh M • Edited

Every day, every few hours if it's daytime or if spot any dust on it. I like to keep my laptop clean and new. For this purpose, I always have microfibre cloth and a tiny brush always in my bag.

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David Taitingfong

Well considering I primarily use one laptop...every morning before I boot up. I have a cloth that I use to wipe down the screen and I use the same cloth to wipe the oil left from my fingers off of my keyboard. I wash the cloth every 2nd time I do laundry.

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imad

since there is a lot of dust in the air where i live, I try to clean my 2 laptops once a week using a microfiber towel and a special spray for screens

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Michael Lustig - halfjew22@gmail.com

I just get the urge to clean it sometimes. If there’s a smudge or debris on the screen, I’ll probably be cleaning pretty soon. Sometimes, I get that gunk on my ; enter space shift f cmd or s keys. Specifically those :) Might have missed one.

In order to clean the screen, I spray a TINY amount of Windex ON THE PAPER TOWEL and wipe initially in large circles. Then I go around the edge and get the gunk out from there. After that I’ll spray even less Windex again on the paper towel and make horizontal and vertical lines to remove any streaking.

I then turn on KeyboardCleanTool and spray a little Method Lavender on the paper towel and go to town. I also make sure to wipe clean the trackpad and body of the laptop.

Finally, I’ll use some compressed air to finish up.

Fun fact, the laptop runs more effectively for a time after cleaning.

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Pim

Another barn burner! Heckuva one liner Ben! I'm maybe in the minority, but I clean my daily driver (laptop) everyday with a slightly damp microfiber cloth. Gotta take care of your tools!

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zach

Not often enough for sure.

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/*Sharkie*/

Wait your supposed to... clean... it?

Huh.

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Adam Patterson

I don't touch my screen so never, and my keyboard maybe monthly to when I start to notice all my coffee dribbles all over it.

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Adam Patterson

I don't touch my screen so never, and my keyboard maybe monthly ot when I start to notice all my coffee dribbles all over it.

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Raymel Francisco • Edited

As a keyboard enthusiast I am obsessed in keeping my keyboards clean. Screens, as long as nothing bothers me on my view. The contrast though. 😁 A microfiber cloth is my basic cleaning tool.

my keyboard

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Michel Renaud

I usually make it worse when I do that.