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Cleaning Your Laptop Made Easy Inside Out: Ensuring Safety at Home

This article will guide you on how to clean your laptop in an easy, practical, and convenient way using items that are readily available at home. It even includes tips and rules to follow to avoid damaging your laptop while cleaning. Let's delve into this article to find out more with FPT Shop.

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10 December, 2023

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After a long “battle”, you need to clean your laptop. This not only helps the laptop function better, but also gives you more motivation when working and minimizes the risk of sneezing caused by working with a dusty laptop.

If your laptop has dust, coffee stains, spots, fingerprints, food particles, and a dusty screen, it’s time for you to clean it up. With just basic cleaning tools and 15 minutes, you can clean your laptop as good as new. FPT Shop will guide you on how to clean the screen, keyboard, outer surface, as well as the vents and connectors in a clean and safe manner.

Essential tools for cleaning a laptop

Rest assured that the following tools are very easy to find, but there are some notes about these tools that you need to know. Prepare:

Two absorbent synthetic fiber cleaning cloths, if the cloth has a brand, the better. Do not use cotton or paper towels as this can leave dirt during cleaning. One cloth will be used as a holder while the other will be used for cleaning.

A dust blower, this is an essential tool for cleaning debris and dust in hard-to-reach areas.
A small soft-bristle brush, used to push away dust and debris in crevices.
Cleaning solution, it is best to use a specialized cleaning solution for computers. Alternatively, you can mix water with soap in a 1:1 ratio and add a little vinegar to effectively remove dirt, oil, and stubborn stains. In addition, you can use hydrogen peroxide or rubbing alcohol to disinfect the keyboard. Alcohol has the advantage of quickly evaporating, allowing the surface to dry quickly.

Note: Avoid ammonia and products with bleach. These substances are extremely dangerous to the surface of the product, especially the screen. For the screen, you can buy specialized cleaning products or use safe products for your skin.

Things to note before cleaning a laptop at home

Before you start cleaning, note the following:

Turn off the laptop completely and unplug the power cord to avoid accidentally pressing multiple keys while cleaning and deleting an important file.
Choose a well-ventilated area and place the laptop on a firm surface such as a desk, with the prepared cloth underneath to avoid scratching the bottom of the laptop.

Handle with the utmost care, avoiding applying strong pressure to the laptop as this may damage the internal circuit board.
Use both hands to lift, move, and flip the laptop to distribute force evenly to the frame. Also, avoid lifting the laptop by the lid and close the lid if you need to move it.
Important: Keep your cleaning area free of liquids. Keep liquids such as cleaning agents out of the laptop’s range in case of spills. Don’t be confident that you can control not spilling them, as you may accidentally come into contact with them while cleaning, or if you have young children or pets at home, they may unintentionally spill them. So, “better safe than sorry,” be cautious from the start.
Wash and dry your hands before and after cleaning to avoid dirt sticking to the laptop. And if you have sensitive skin, you can use medical gloves for hygiene.

Professional laptop cleaning with the following steps

Clean dust and debris in crevices with a dust blower and soft brush

Dust can accumulate anywhere there is space on the laptop: under the keyboard, around the screen edges, within and around the mouse button (if any), as well as the connection ports and ventilation holes. Clean the dust in these locations before proceeding with other cleaning steps.

Use a dust blower and a soft brush to remove dust. Make sure to maintain a distance between the air nozzle and the surface to avoid putting too much pressure on the laptop. This can be dangerous to the components of the machine, as the blower can cause the air to condense and create moisture within the components if your room or living area is humid.

A small tip, when blowing dust in the ventilation slots, try to hold your breath for a moment as these areas usually accumulate a lot of dust. Blowing dust may cause you to sneeze if your nose is sensitive.

And when blowing dust on the keyboard, start from the bottom row and gradually move up. Blow each key twice to ensure that dust and debris can be blown out.

Clean the laptop keyboard

Cleaning dust in the key crevices is just the first step, next is to clean the surface of the keyboard. Dust, oil, sweat from your fingers, and a lot of bacteria accumulate here. Many studies have shown that some computer keyboards contain more harmful bacteria than a toilet seat. So be sure to clean this area thoroughly.

Use the prepared cloth mentioned above to clean the keyboard. If you use the entire cloth to wipe the keyboard, stop because each keyboard has a different structure, so using the entire cloth can get stuck and damage the keyboard. Be patient and clean each key one by one.

Dampen one corner of the cloth, gently clean each key one by one. Do not leave the cloth too wet or dripping water during cleaning as the water can seep into the gaps and damage the internal components.

Place the dampened part in light contact with each key, apply enough pressure to press down and clean the key in a circular motion. Be sure to wipe clean around the edges of the keyboard and connection ports with slow, gentle motions.

Clean the laptop frame and touchpad

The next step is to clean the laptop frame and touchpad. At this point, you can use a larger dampened area of the cloth, but still ensure that the cloth is not too wet.

Start by cleaning the wrist rest and touchpad, then clean the edge of the keyboard and edge of the screen, leaving the screen for later cleaning as there will be separate instructions for the screen.

Lastly, close the laptop and clean the lid and the bottom of the laptop. For stubborn stains such as coffee, you can directly apply a small amount of cleaning agent to the stain and leave it for a minute, making it easier to wipe. You should only use this method on a flat surface to avoid soap running into the gaps, and make sure to wipe it dry after the stain has come off.

Clean the screen

Finally, cleaning the screen requires more care than ever. Dampen another part of the cloth and start cleaning from the edge of the screen inward in a circular motion. Be sure to use one hand to support the laptop lid to prevent the machine from flipping backward.

As mentioned above, if you are careful, use a specialized cleaning solution for the screen; otherwise, you can use a cleaning solution for your skin. But no matter which type you use, absolutely do not spray the liquid directly onto the screen and be careful not to let water flow into the screen edges. Spray the cleaning solution onto the cloth and gently wipe as instructed.

Conclusion

So FPT Shop has guided you and provided notes for you to clean your laptop. Wish you success in cleaning and taking care of your “rice grain”.