Which is Stickier? Your Mouse or Keyboard?
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SweetCherry
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Forget cleaning. Just buy new ones. They aren't that expensive, and it's easier to go the new route. 
LadyDarkFire
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My mouse is, and as for cleaning them, on the keyboard, I use compressed air (blows everything out) and with the mouse, just a tooth pick with a bit of cotton on the end, clean around the buttons and then blow out the cavity for the ball on the underside.
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For the keyboard, I use the gentle cycle, and hang dry. As for the mouse balls......I'm just not into that, sorry.
Re: Stop...
RJ,
Is it that obvious??
You know me much too well..lol
Cassidy,
welcoming your cleaning tips
RedJ said:... bumping up against your PC equipment and stop the sticky problem at the source by letting me come over and cleaning you.
RedJ
RJ,
Is it that obvious??
You know me much too well..lol
Cassidy,
welcoming your cleaning tips
Fly_On_Wall
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For me I pop off all the keys and hen vacume the inside, it gets full of hair and lint underneath them all.
for the mouse toothpick under the buttons, but no ball to clean i have a 5 button optical lazor mouse.
for the mouse toothpick under the buttons, but no ball to clean i have a 5 button optical lazor mouse.
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juicylips said:
just what is says it is
it dosn't have the ball inside it, instead it has a lazor that comes out it can be used on any servace except shiny ones that reflect
and it has 5 buttons the two regular ones with a wheel in the ecenter that scrolls for you and acts as a 3rd button when pressed then there are 2 buttons on the side that you can hit with your thumb and your ring finger.
i'll see if i can find a picture of one for you, but it looks just like a regular one but no cleaning
it's called the Microsoft Intelemouse with optical eye (sounds special but it isn't)
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Covering the keyboards Saran Wrap can help with that sticky problem with the keyboards also with the mouse but thats get touchy at times. Also you can decorate the the computer area with all the Christmas colours of wrap they have now. SMILING AT YOU
Covering the keyboards Saran Wrap can help with that sticky problem with the keyboards also with the mouse but thats get touchy at times. Also you can decorate the the computer area with all the Christmas colours of wrap they have now. SMILING AT YOU
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My keyboard and mouse are fairly clean right now. -gasp-
Normally, they are not. With the keyboard, I pop the keys, and use an alcohol swabbed qtip to pick up any dirt, and crumbs, and lil hairs, n other shit out of it.
Now, on the rare occasion when my son has been kind enough to spill water on it, I have completly dismantled the keyboard, and dried off the electronic plastic sheet that reads the key strokes. To my shock, it was amazingly easy to do. So long as a key board isn't older, they are all made that way, and contrary to popular beliefe, liquid does no harm, so long as it is dried off. It won't short the keyboard at all. Juice is a bit worse, or soda, because it is sticky, but it can be cleaned off with a damn cloth just the same.
Now, for the mouse, we clean all the lint off the ball, and dry it with a cloth to keep oils from hands off it. Then, look at the little wheels on the inside of it. If they are black, and no longer white or grey, then they need to be cleaned too. That is what makes it not respond. Lint gets caught on the wheels, and wound up into them. All you have to do, is drag a fingernail across them until the lint picks up off the surface, then pull it all the way off. Blow off the inside, replace the ball, and you are good to go.
Normally, they are not. With the keyboard, I pop the keys, and use an alcohol swabbed qtip to pick up any dirt, and crumbs, and lil hairs, n other shit out of it.
Now, on the rare occasion when my son has been kind enough to spill water on it, I have completly dismantled the keyboard, and dried off the electronic plastic sheet that reads the key strokes. To my shock, it was amazingly easy to do. So long as a key board isn't older, they are all made that way, and contrary to popular beliefe, liquid does no harm, so long as it is dried off. It won't short the keyboard at all. Juice is a bit worse, or soda, because it is sticky, but it can be cleaned off with a damn cloth just the same.
Now, for the mouse, we clean all the lint off the ball, and dry it with a cloth to keep oils from hands off it. Then, look at the little wheels on the inside of it. If they are black, and no longer white or grey, then they need to be cleaned too. That is what makes it not respond. Lint gets caught on the wheels, and wound up into them. All you have to do, is drag a fingernail across them until the lint picks up off the surface, then pull it all the way off. Blow off the inside, replace the ball, and you are good to go.
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there that is my mouse the grey thing on the side is the 4th button that is hit with the thumb, there is an identicl one on the other side the black thing in the front is the wheel and in the back the red thing, the whole bottom is read and lights up when on cause of the lazer.
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sarahuk4 said:
No prob...
-psst..... Hubby just showed me that trick this weekend. I was bitching about how I have to clean the damn thing every night, and he showed me what was really wrong. Just before I beat my mouse into submission, that is.
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To clean the mouse
If you have the kind with the ball underneath.. there is a ring around it that you can remove.. then the ball just pops out.. see the little rollers inside the mouse? Ok.. take a pencil eraser and run it back and forth while spinning those rollers.. go across them.. not with the rolling motion (the roller rolls up and down.. go left and right with the eraser, if the roller goes left and right go up and down on the roller). Now clean the ball with a little bit of alcohol.. put back together.
If you have the kind that i have.. the ball is controlled by the thumb, (it's an Intellipoint by Microsoft) The ball also is removable, but there isn't any rollers. so you just clean it out with a soft cloth and rub the ball on the cloth also.
as far as the buttons on any mouse, i've never had to clean those. sorry can't help you there.
Keyboard.. well I don't smoke, eat or drink anything at my desk. My ash tray, cup of coffee or soda and all my food is on a table across the room. I learned along time ago.. NONE of the above mentioned items are good for computer key boards..
and since I don't masturbate at my computer.. sticky fingers aren't a problem either..
If you have the kind with the ball underneath.. there is a ring around it that you can remove.. then the ball just pops out.. see the little rollers inside the mouse? Ok.. take a pencil eraser and run it back and forth while spinning those rollers.. go across them.. not with the rolling motion (the roller rolls up and down.. go left and right with the eraser, if the roller goes left and right go up and down on the roller). Now clean the ball with a little bit of alcohol.. put back together.
If you have the kind that i have.. the ball is controlled by the thumb, (it's an Intellipoint by Microsoft) The ball also is removable, but there isn't any rollers. so you just clean it out with a soft cloth and rub the ball on the cloth also.
as far as the buttons on any mouse, i've never had to clean those. sorry can't help you there.
Keyboard.. well I don't smoke, eat or drink anything at my desk. My ash tray, cup of coffee or soda and all my food is on a table across the room. I learned along time ago.. NONE of the above mentioned items are good for computer key boards..
and since I don't masturbate at my computer.. sticky fingers aren't a problem either..
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A solution for sticky keyboards is a spray can of Brake Cleaner -- the kind that ais almost pure 1,1,1, Trichloroethane. (Some office supply stores still sell "type cleaner" that is pressurized cans of "Trich" which work as well.)
You should always check to make sure that the plastic parts of your keyboard are soluble in "Trich" If thier not affected by the Trich then the high pressure spray of solvent will wash sugary spills and body oal accululations away with ease.
Warning! Do NOT use a brake cleaner that contains MethylEthylKetone or acetone! MEK or acetone will almost certainly ruin your keyboard, plus MEK is poisonous AND flamable.
Trich is neither flamable or poisonous allthough it does displace oxygen efficiently -- use it in a well ventilated place.
You should always check to make sure that the plastic parts of your keyboard are soluble in "Trich" If thier not affected by the Trich then the high pressure spray of solvent will wash sugary spills and body oal accululations away with ease.
Warning! Do NOT use a brake cleaner that contains MethylEthylKetone or acetone! MEK or acetone will almost certainly ruin your keyboard, plus MEK is poisonous AND flamable.
Trich is neither flamable or poisonous allthough it does displace oxygen efficiently -- use it in a well ventilated place.
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