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Cleaning a flat panel monitor

  • 26-01-2004 08:42PM
    #1
    L5
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,951 ✭✭✭


    Have a 19" CRT flat panel, problem is that people keep pawing it to point out stuff and leave big smudges on it. Theyre pretty hard to rub off with a regular cloth. Anyone know of any simple way to clean them? Thanks


Comments

  • #2
    Karoma
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,396 ✭✭✭✭Karoma


    screen...wipes....


  • #3
    Robbo
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 10,648 Mod ✭✭✭✭Robbo


    Windolene.

    Use sparingly, it goes a long way.


  • #4
    joePC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,637 ✭✭✭joePC


    How to clean a monitor................... that is the most dumbest question I've ever heard, I hope you where joking........


  • #5
    unkel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 60,764 ✭✭✭✭unkel


    Originally posted by joePC
    most dumbest question
    sic

    Why?

    "Make no mistake. The days of the internal combustion engine are definitely numbered" - Quentin Willson, 1997



  • #6
    Lump
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,984 ✭✭✭✭Lump


    Would a cleaner not damage the crystals or something....


    John


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  • #7
    Ronaldo7
    Closed Accounts Posts: 811 ✭✭✭Ronaldo7


    crystals? :confused:


  • #8
    Lump
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,984 ✭✭✭✭Lump


    HA HA HA, I only read the flat part.... thought it was an LCD.... use some Belkin Screen cleaners .


    John


  • #9
    Oriel
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,154 ✭✭✭Oriel


    Folks?!
    It's a thin *plastic* panel.
    Just buy some screen wipes, or if you work in an office, just nick them :-)
    Windolene is fine for normal glass CRT screens, but has been known to damage *some* (older) tft plastics. Just stick with the wipes.

    Dust will just rub off so, even better, don't get your grubby fingers on the screen in the first place?

    S.


  • #10
    Kali
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,601 ✭✭✭Kali


    Yep windowlene is fine for any glass screen.
    But just in case somebody does mistake this thread.. never use any acetone based cleaners or wipes with an LCD screen.


  • #11
    AntiRip
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,244 ✭✭✭AntiRip


    Someone pressed their finger on my tft screen, and now Im left with what looks like a bruise on the screen.

    They are hard to clean though.


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  • #12
    duridian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,541 ✭✭✭duridian


    People who 'paw' monitors like that are cretins,what the heck do they think the mouse is for? I find that stabbing their hand with a compass or similar object a few times when you see their finger start to rise in the direction of your monitor trains them to better computer etiquette rather quickly. Prevention is after all better than cure, n'est pas?


  • #13
    AntiRip
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,244 ✭✭✭AntiRip


    Originally posted by duridian
    People who 'paw' monitors like that are cretins,what the heck do they think the mouse is for? I find that stabbing their hand with a compass or similar object a few times when you see their finger start to rise in the direction of your monitor trains them to better computer etiquette rather quickly. Prevention is after all better than cure, n'est pas?

    True, true !


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