keyboard cleaning  

Thanks for the tip - I will have a browse around my local PC shops during the week. I've never thought about cleaning the casing of the CPU aswell. It's not like I don't try to take good care of my things - I think they just get negelicted 'cos I don't look at the box every day.

No liquid on a keyboard, they sell cans of air that you can spray on it to get the dust out/in your case the pepper, lol! and also you could try a vacuume attachment, but becareful it dosen't suck off your keys, I've done both, and it should be ok if it's just pepper dust, it's the liquids that really ruin them.

yep, canned air is the best thing in the world to clean little bits out of your keyboard. i've had to use it many many times.

What I do is tape plastic wrap on top of my keyboard about once a month. You can still see the key and it doesn't affect my typing.

It really works. When I change my plastic wrap my keyboard looks brand new underneath.

And my keyboard is over 3 years old.

Hope this helps.

Lloyd

The can of air is a good way to go... just make sure you have your keyboard over the trash can when you clean it, because the stuff that is in your keyboard will go everywhere!

Thank you all for letting me know to avoid liquid ... it's not like I was planning to use a whole lot but I was a bit wary of doing it anyway. Liquid + electronics doesn't usually result in a happy ending. I'm glad I decided not to rush ahead and do this yet =D Thank you all

as far as i'm aware it's just a normal keyboard - it just came standard with the PC. How easy is it to pull apart? I don't want to kill it so that doesn't work ever again. Any tips?

yes, must open the keyboard and clean, and be refited ..

Usually it is very easy to open, you just unscrew a few screws on the back and it should come apart without any force being applied. I wash my keyboard this way once a week to keep the keys from stinking since people love to eat at my computer even though I don't allow it.

Yeah I have an electrostatic cloth ... but it's still not helping pick it all up. I'll keep persisting with the cotton buds but i'm not at all convinced that I'm not making it worse but jamming it all further in [not that it can go much further after i've been shaking it all around ... but still]. I'll give standing it overnight a go ... you never know

As for the sandwich thing *laughs* ... it could become amusing for a quick snack to eat at your computer ... keyboard on rye ... *homer drool* LOL

yeah but do they pick up all the little pieces of dirt and stuff? and i'm talking really really fine dirt particles here. I've used a static cloth and there are still specks everywhere

Oh never use a vaccum clearner or youll have the same problem that I had,my clearner sucked a couple of keys and I had alot of hard work getting them back,lolol

Thanks for the suggestions - a few people have said to avoid liquids on the keyboard but I may end up using the vaccum cleaner on a low setting to see what happens. Again - thank you for your tips.

i have to do that,my son has a habit of sharing everything he eats with the key board. i ste up the on-line keyboard first before i start pulling it apart so i know where everything goes afterwards.

It's nice to know that i am not the only one who has a child who feels that the computer keyboards needs food in order to survive. I think it would be extremely difficult to keep it totally grime and grot free but after the responses I've received on this post I shall nearly be able to write a book on "101 tips to clean your computer keyboard"!

Wow ... that sounds so simple yet effictive. Thank you so much! I'll give it a try!

the simplest ideas usually do work best....

Hey this is getting really interesting, write a blog of 101 tips to clean your keyboard, if you are not writing it, can I do so.