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I’ve got one of these lovely shiny new TFT monitors and one of my colleagues has just committed the ultimate sin. Yes that’s right, he has just gone and poked it with his finger and left a lovely big smear on the screen. It’s one of those things that really wind me up, even more so when I’ve only had the monitor five minutes!
I was just sitting there admiring my desktop viewed at an impressive resolution of 1600 x 1200 when this Luddite decides to poison my lovely new display with his greasy mitts. He then proceeded to do it again, and again, and again as he referred to various cells on a spreadsheet that we were collaborating on. I can tell you, by the time he walked away from my desk I was absolutely fuming! Partly because he’s an idiot and I can’t stand working with him anyway, but mainly because I then had to go off and find some screen cleaner to remove the offending trail of fingerprints!
I couldn’t just leave it the way it was you see. I would just end up distracted by all the blemishes spoiling that otherwise clean surface.
Before anyone jumps to the wrong conclusions, I don’t have a compulsive disorder. I just like a clean and tidy workstation and I don’t think it’s much to ask that people leave my screen alone. What on earth possesses people to do this? I find it difficult to believe that they can’t point at something without having to actually touch it!
I used to work in an office and there was this one fellow who never ever cleaned his screen in the two years or so that I was there. He was guilty of poking his finger at it from time to time as well, and he didn’t seem to care when other people did either. It was absolutely filthy. It was obvious enough when the display was turned on, but when it was switched off you could really see how disgusting it had become.
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Next, you will need to find a good, soft piece of microfiber cloth to clean your display. Avoid paper tissues at all cost! Using those on your screen would be just like scrubbing sandpaper on it and may scratch it permanently. You wouldn't want to do that right?
Now that we have everything we need, start by turning off your screen. Dampen your piece of soft cloth with your cleaning mixture and then wipe the display gently from top to bottom. Never spray liquid directly onto the LCD. When you're done, wait a few minutes to let your screen dry, and then turn it back on. Voila, you're done! Your screen should now be sparkling clean.
That's a bit ridiculous, really. To compare a computer monitor to all those things in the first place..
But then, most of us are generic work drones. There's not alot we can do about starving children in third world countries, but by god we can protect the pristine condition of our monitors.
I agree with the griper though. It's so frustrating to have something nice, for it to be damaged or ruined by someone within 5 minutes.
Anyway, isopropyl alcohol diluted with de-ionized water works well with those nasty spots. Wipe with soft cloth.
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