How to Clean a Laptop Keyboard

1

Start by turning your machine off. Unplug it, disconnect it and remove any USB wires or memory sticks.

2

For simple cleaning, tilt your laptop forward. Bang the back and hopefully anything lodged between the keys will fall out!

3

Take the end of a teaspoon and wrap it in a wet-wipe. Drag the teaspoon along all the edges of the keys and keyboard. This will pick up any dust and dirt.

4

Take a vacuum cleaner and run it over the keys. This will rid your laptop of any more dirt. Alternatively, you can use a hair-dryer to blow it away but ensure you repeat step 2.

5

If you are still having problems, remove your laptop keys. So far, we have avoided doing this because it is time-consuming, annoying and easy to get wrong.

  • Research your laptops brand name and see if you do have keys that can actually be taken off
  • Be careful, because the keys are often held on by fragile plastic tabs. Gently pop them off and store them somewhere safe.
  • Run your wet-wipes over the bare key-board. Q-tips also work well with this, after soaking them in anything that evaporates (rubbing alcohol and hydrogen peroxide) so that you do not get moisture under the keyboard.
  • Pop the keys back on. There will occasionally be keys with metal “stands” on the back – these are easy to slide back into their rails. Other keys will simply require you to depress the corners.
  • You can also wash the keys, but this makes losing keys easier.

6

Finished.

 

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